Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.

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.

Remember when you were ten and went to a friend’s place who had a Commodore 64 and they just got a new game on a floppy from his uncle’s friend. And the game was just an animation of a pixelated naked cartoon lady who took a piss on to the ground. And you’d laugh your ass off for the rest of the day. Remember? No?

How young are you people?

I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.

I miss the old internet so much.

I was following it just fine until the “experience the information superhighway” part.

My mate’s ZX Spectrums had no “information superhighway” connection.

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.

In the early '80s we used to hang out at my one friend’s house and play games on his TRS-80 which we affectionately called the “Trash 80”. We were all in high school except Monty who was 23 and enormously obese. Monty had a real job as a programmer somewhere and one afternoon he sat down at the Trash 80 and wrote a very plausible hi-res version of Space Invaders from scratch in about half an hour. At the time it meant nothing to me, but now after a 30 year career as a programmer myself I understand just how impressive that actually was.

Monty wired up his car’s alternator to the ignition switch and he would leave his keys in the switch, hoping that somebody would attempt to steal his car and die. Not knowing about this, one of our friends ran out to his car after a D&D session, started it up and drove around the parking lot. Monty was so disappointed that nothing happened. I kinda miss the '80s.

I remember looking for porn for the first time at a buddies house and we couldn’t even figure it out. It never dawned on us to type “porn” into the search engine. Just two 13 year olds going “type in girls, damn, ok, try babes. Nothing? What about chicks?”

Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.

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.

Internet was good when it was shackled to computers and wasn’t spread everywhere via smartphones.

Commenting this from smartphone.

I remember a bunch of us going over to our neighbor’s house to watch him play Sim ant.

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.