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i'm only 21 and its weird to think that people growing up now have no recollection of life before the internet. even tho i've had the internet for 10 years i still find the idea odd. the experience was different then. you played deathmatch duke3d on wireplay and downloaded Simpsons soundclips of a homemade website with IE3 and it cost you 1p a minute. with adverts. how its changed. how its evolved. and the impact its had on the real world. back then it was just a tool, but you still used a real dictionary or encyclopedia, and now you internet it. back then, you used clip art. back then, you rang your mates on the landline for a chat back then, you played modem games of red alert. i dunno. discuss. |
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The machines own you. |
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Good point about clip art.. I can't remember the last time I saw Clip art for sale at computer software stores. I remember, back in the day (10+ years ago), before there were MMORPGs, something termed "Simming" existed in internet chatrooms that were essentially text-based MMORPGs. Groups of rooms were available for many different universes, including Star Wars, Vampires/Werewolves, etc. Each chat room represented a different locale within it's respective universe. For example, the Starwars sim containted rooms like "Mos Eisley Cantina," "Endor," "Rebel Alliance Base," etc. Joining that chat room meant you were at that location, and while there you had to observe the rules of being In Character, which meant talking as though you were that person, and using symbols to show when you doing an action, such as: [Vykk Draygo] ::holsters E-11 blaster pistol:: Ah, those were the good old days before fancy graphics became the focus of Role play environments. |
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the internet is making more proud hermit's worldwide daily. why go out to order movies or groceries when they can be delivered and you not have to leave your bed that also turns into a couch during the day?! i mean isnt the internet just a lovely thing? |
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oh the countless time i had to yell upstairs "NO ONE ANSWER THE FOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE" when my friend was dialing my pc for doom2 multiplay |
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hahaha, oh man i used to do the same with quake |
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Well, that's certainly one (completely negative) way too look at it. |
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that bit was ok. trying to get your mate to make sure he did the same was the biggest headache. |
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Haha, doom 1 multiplayer, that's where its at! (obviously doom2 is superior in every way, I've only played D1 multi though) |
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Back then you had dial-up. Back then you had personal Geocities websites with animated gifs and looped wav. files. Back then there was Prodigy (not the band). Back then there was the list of the Top 100 "Yo Mama" jokes on one web page. |
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I dug up this mindblowing video clip off our family's first AST computer depicting a younger John O'Hurley talking about the wonders of Prodigy (the Internet service). |
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The connections/networkism of everything is increasing with time. |
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Thank god I never got into these mmorpgs. I might have if it was easier to figure out how. |
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"back in the olden days of dial-up" " i was there" "etc" you lot are insane |
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anyone remeber cyber sex before web cams!! huh? huh? i do! it was cool once. after that i was over it. |
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[Vykk Draygo] ::slowly takes off utility belt:: |
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hahaha |
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the internet was a magical place back then. |
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In the olden days, people just hung out on the porch :( |
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the real question is, what will it be like when we are old, its scary to think about - this thing will evolve and live as we all die. |
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i am thinking they will soon have a web site grave yard, www.cemetary.com |
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I remember having to buy DIE HARD GAME FAN just to get the fatalities for the first betas of MK3 arcade, and a guy telling me he got some MOVES off of a BBS. One of the only places to get internet was at our library (1995-96 ish) and there was ONE computer and you had to book it. I remember not knowing how the fuck to use it and calling my brother at home "I got time at the library on the computer ... how do I use the internet???" Then I just looked at a bunch of crappy Tripod Sailor moon fan sites and animated gifs. |
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In fact, life before the internet for me was GAME PLAYERS, EGM, and yuck GAMEPRO. |
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LOL |
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