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thathonkey posted:Also if you didnt use the internet in the mid to late 90s then lol 56k modem, only allowed to use it once or twice per week.
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1200 baud, per minute charge. If I wanted to download something I had to do yardwork the entire time it downloaded.
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blugu64 posted:1200 baud, per minute charge. If I wanted to download something I had to do yardwork the entire time it downloaded. Compuserve? Cause drat they had a racket going. To "save money" I used to browse the forums at 300 baud - I couldn't read the incoming text any faster than that so why pay more?
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Neophyte posted:Compuserve? Cause drat they had a racket going. AOL, and I still have my three character screen name for AIM.
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thathonkey posted:Anyone gently caress with Mediaplay back in the day? It was basically like a best buy or circuit city that also sold books and maybe other printed poo poo like that. I do. There was one on the outer edge of Savannah back when I went to college. One Sunday we got on a bus to go over there & buy stuff. Unfortunately it was closed due to it being Easter. Upon discovering this, my Catholic friend Ryan cried out, "God drat this holiday!" That is my Media Play story.
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May 6, 2015 17:39
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Dyna Soar posted:56k modem, only allowed to use it once or twice per week. I think the first modem i had was rated at 9600 baud. The phone lines in our neighborhood were too old to go any higher than 28.8 too iirc even once 56k was the norm.
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I remember having a limit to how many minutes a month I could be online. It wasn't a per minute charge, it was flat rate for 20 hours a month or something like that. So I'd fire up my newsreader log in to the usenet servers, download all the headers from groups I liked. Log off. Decide which topics I wanted to read. Log on, download those messages, log off. Read the messages. Compose my witty replies. Log on to upload my replies and then log off again. Gotta go fast.
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thathonkey posted:I think the first modem i had was rated at 9600 baud. The phone lines in our neighborhood were too old to go any higher than 28.8 too iirc even once 56k was the norm. now that you mention we probably did have 28k first, but i didn't really use it because it was slow and also i didn't really care at that point.
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May 7, 2015 01:15
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Fonzarelli posted:you gen x-ers need to stop bragging about that disgusting woods porn We never said it didn't give us OCD about scrubbing our hands bloody for several hours afterwards. That was all part of the ride.
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May 7, 2015 01:22
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I remember having a 300 baud modem for our Commodore 64 and browsing Compuserve with it. Going up to a 1200 baud modem on an IBM-compatible 8088 running DOS and connecting to BBS sites instead was so much better. I engaged in online trolling before there was an Internet. 
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Fonzarelli posted:you gen x-ers need to stop bragging about that disgusting woods porn That's why we never get sick all the time like kids do today.
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Dyna Soar posted:did you parents search your poo poo or what? i just kept them under my mattress My parents searched everything. I had a Penthouse that I kept in a folder on a shelf with textbooks and other papers, magazines, comics and folders. The worst part is I was 18 at the time.
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If you were hiding poo poo under your mattress, there's a 90% chance your parents knew it was there the whole time and just didn't say anything. That's like the most obvious hiding spot ever.
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I once heard Pearl Jam on an oldies station and got irrationally angry.
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InterFaced posted:I once heard Pearl Jam on an oldies station and got irrationally angry. i just get bored when i hear pearl jam
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ghlbtsk posted:If you are unable to recollect bits of Reality Bites or Singles without a tiny tear of nostalgia for your lost youth leaking from your eye, you are a Gen-Xer. ^ this over this subhuman filth posted:fyi if you're under 34 you're still a millenial sorry    Winona Ryder is my spirit animal im 30yo but i wish i could have experienced the 90s a little older like maybe between the age of 18-25yo, but being young with no real responsibilities or obligations during the time was also p rad. i can still vividly recall the first time i listened to Nevermind and shoplifting alternative music cassette tapes from Circuit City because my parents wouldnt buy them for me. Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 8, 2015 |
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 first album I ever owned my parents bought it for me. Gen X or Millenial?
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texaholic posted:
Millenial like by 100%. I worked at a breakfast restaurant in the summer and saw Smashing Pumpkins at a 250+ club (Zoots, Portland, ME) on Friday night and they randomly showed up to my breakfast place on Saturday morning, driving their own van from Illinois. I like to think my pancakes and omelet put them on to the path of success. D'arcy was notably not there.
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I'm on the cusp. When I did science projects as a kid (mid-to-late '80s) I had to rely on what we had at the local library, complete with a card catalog, and hope that maybe, maybe another branch might have what I'm looking for and can send it over in a reasonable period of time (like in two weeks). But on the other hand, as I am now finishing my dissertation, I get unreasonably irritated when an article I'm trying to find is inaccessible online, like I'm ungrateful and take for granted the marvels of the internet or some poo poo (paywalls don't count, those are objectively terrible and are obstructive to the scientific process, and don't have anything to do with being online, per se). I've lived through the old ways enough to appreciate the relative ease and convenience of the new, and yet sometimes have the impatience of one who hasn't been there.
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 My first Playboy. I snuck it home under my shirt from a neighbor kid's dad's stash, and I kept it slid behind the bed for quick access.
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Grant DaNasty posted:
Every chick in playboy back then had an unusual amount of stuff.
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empty baggie posted:If you were hiding poo poo under your mattress, there's a 90% chance your parents knew it was there the whole time and just didn't say anything. That's like the most obvious hiding spot ever. seriously. when i need to hide something i will at least put some loving effort into it.
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We've reached the part of the thread where I post Heavy Metal Parking Lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDnuhbDFeY
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i was in 6th grade when columbine happened what does that make me
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SA2K posted:i was in 6th grade when columbine happened Millenial as gently caress. Like post millenial maybe?
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empty baggie posted:If you were hiding poo poo under your mattress, there's a 90% chance your parents knew it was there the whole time and just didn't say anything. That's like the most obvious hiding spot ever. yeah, probably but who cares? every teenage boy has porn stashed somewhere. my mom probably knew about them but was wise enough to let me have them and never say anything about it.
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Dyna Soar posted:yeah, probably but who cares? every teenage boy has porn stashed somewhere. my mom probably knew about them but was wise enough to let me have them and never say anything about it. What if ur Mom sucks?
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redshirt posted:What if ur Mom sucks? chances are a kid can't think of a hiding place good enough in the house anyway. which takes us to porn stashes in the forest
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You Are A Elf posted:This is really, really sad. Taking my nephew to the park/playground in today's world is dumb. All of the playground equipment is nothing but bridges a foot off the ground and some fake plastic rocks to crawl on, and the ground is soft wood chips with some rubber ground underneath. No swings. No see-saws. No huge fuckoff high or spiral slides. No merry-go-rounds. No monkey bars or jungle gyms. Not even those animals mounted to springs anymore. This thing:  We used to have 1 person stand in the center. We would all grab an animal and begin violently shaking and rocking to try and make the person in the center fall. I don't remember the luxury of sand tho. I also remember a tiny 3 person stand up merry go round; 3 people would get on and then everyone else would stand on the outside and spin the gently caress out of it. It was insanely fast. Oh oh, found one:  Also; giant truck (tractor?) tires and climb-things made from old tires.
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Man, motherfucking tractor-tire swings! They banned these in my city because too many kids got hit right in the god damned face. It happened to everyone growing up though, but apparently it's unacceptable now.
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Grant DaNasty posted:
Nice. Mine was this one:  I remember because when I was watching the movie with my parents for the first time I almost blurted out 'Hey dad, you own that one!'
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Playing Everquest on a dialup modem and then having your dad pick up the phone was basically the worst thing on earth
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SA2K posted:Playing Everquest on a dialup modem and then having your dad pick up the phone was basically the worst thing on earth This but replace everquest with a non lovely game
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SA2K posted:What's the post-millenial generation called Generation Y or Z I think
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i had Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL all at once at one point. pretty sorry but i was concerned over which one was fastest (they were all the same)
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1997 I hooked up a company's internet via 3 56K modems that autodialed. Then we hired a horrid lesbian witch from Norway who surfed lesbian witch sites all day and took all the bandwidth. Such an awkward conversation.
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I got our AOL account canceled when I was 11 and my dad was super mad and wondered how we would use the Internet afterward
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