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Yeah, the ubiquity of it made it even more attractive to advertisers. Even more attractive when everything went from being individual forums to Facebook groups or subreddits.
But then what would I do while out for a walk, be alone with my thoughts and observant of my surroundings??
Sent from my smartphone while out for a walk.
Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.
People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.
The internet used to be magnificent.
I found a site recently, called Cloudhiker that’s a Stumbleupon Replacement
Lemmy is the same thing, but with scrolling, and comments.
.I remember when my mum used to say “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this big important thing. Not “He’s checking his email”, or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.
“Surfing the web” is one of my favourite phrases in that it’s completely meaningless now despite there being far more of it happening than when the phrase was created
“Are you surfing the web, son?”
No, just Lemmy.
I feel like “doom scrolling” has replaced web surfing.
That’s because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.
I remember being 10 and we’d head over to the one kid who had a computer’s house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we’d manage to find Newgrounds. We’d spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.
Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.
Stickdeath.com was wild, I loved it. I rewatched some recently and did not remember how racist they could be though.
So much racism. I think the rational was that it was ‘fine’ because they were making fun of ‘the bad ones’ and not regular minorities (Thanks Chris Rock)
Newgrounds was an amazing treasure trove of creativity and games.
Back when my friend got AOL for the first time, I came over and we sent an e-mail to the While House urging Bill Clinton to protect the environment.
I’m not insecure about my age, though. On the contrary, people younger than me should be insecure about theirs. No one born in the 21st century can ever really reach adulthood, IMO.
My taekwondo trainer is younger than my driver’s license. That kind of hurt.
I was new when the Internet was new (for consumers), but I remember introducing Warcraft II to a friend.
Did you get the ones on the floppy or on the CD?
I think the first time I played it, I used my brother’s computer on which he had already installed it, probably through floppies.
I don’t remember how I installed it on subsequent computers … But I have written programs in BASIC and transported them on floppies, including for college courses.
yes
Zug zug.
I’m a medieval man 🎶
Lol are you one of those kids from The Kid’s Guide to the Internet?
I miss the old internet so much.
It’s not the same but this reminds me of it:
Thanks for the link!
yeah, and that a significant portion of users had their own little websites and/or blogs. I spent ages browsing those tiny iframe sites built with fancy Photoshop brushes and incomprehensible navigation menus.
I actually got into web design by making a Pokemon fansite with animated gifs on every page xD
I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.
I’m only 35 and we did this as kids.
Only 35 lol
Rude haha
You’ll be 35 before you know it. At a certain point in adulthood, years start to fly by so fast.
You’ll be 35 before you know it
I’m almost there. I accepted I was old when I joined a video game and heard “You sound like you’re 30”. I was infact, 30.
We used to go to arcades even when we had no money just to watch other people play over their shoulders.
It was like Twitch, but sweaty and with more mullets.
I can smell this comment.
Watching the gods play Marvel vs Capcom 2 was peak mall rat experience
Hah. I’m old enough to watch the norms play Street Fighter II The World Warrior.
All my joints ache. Even the ones you didn’t know were joints.
Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we’d ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn’t be?
I do 😅 I guess we’re the same amount old
Old enough that game consoles don’t exist, but young enough to be protected by child labor laws.
I climbed a water tower at an abandoned warehouse and got attacked by wasps at the top. Good times!
Not a thing to do, but talk to you.
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Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.
I got sucked into BBS games for a bit, like LORD and Usurper.
Lineage was my intro to MMOs.
I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends’ houses
Who had a CD ROM drive and a sound blaster? Doom was a whole new dimension with it. It was real and very scary!
I saw a yt vid I can’t find right now of someone doing a comparison between sound blaster and this other high end speaker (also available at the time) that I didn’t even know existed, and now cant remember the name of. Apparently a lot of those dos games had really deep music scores that those of us with just sound blaster never got to hear.
Edit: I think this is what I saw https://youtu.be/wUtWbb8hAh8
I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe
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ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.
Back in my day, they were called floppy disks for a reason.
5.25 or 8 inch?
I’m a modest man
You call that 8 inches?
SCNR
Mine was hard though
There was no hard disk.
I was following it just fine until the “experience the information superhighway” part.
My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.
My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.
Used a 086 Amstrad to connect to BBS’s
That was the proto-internet that I miss even now.
BBS were cute. However the costs and connection speeds were pretty brutal.
Best we could manage was failing to get anywhere in a Dizzy game.
Information back alley trickle
