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I'm so decrepit I can remember a time when "computer" was a term that described a device you could control the software of, kiddo.
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Waiting for dial up to kick in was better with company
I got my PC-less friend into UO, CS, EQ, WoW and a few other abbreviations.
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Friend's family had WebTV before my family even had dial-up. My mom was too worried about the internet having porn and I was already dreaming of getting porn on the TV. Eventually she consented to internet on the living room PC so she could monitor it and that dumb bitch didn't notice the lan cable we routed up the stairs. Every teenager was a network admin in those days. I learned to encrypt hard drives as soon as PC's were powerful enough to handle the performance hit of encryption.
Every teenager was a network admin in those days.
Also (although potentially later) every teenager was a DJ with all those MP3s they got from napster.
And then PC repair technician for the limewire viruses.
I was watching an old episode of Columbo and realized how old it was when a lady used a teletype to retrieve information on a employee. I was born in the 80ies and always had old computers in the 90ies so I learned to use BASIC and DOS, but anything that doesn't have a screen seems like it's from centuries ago to me.
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Thanks Lemmy. I am feeling normal now.
When I was 10, there was no information superhighway. HTTP wasn't even around yet.
I was like "HTTP" has been around forever, sure it was out before I was ten...
Nope I was 12, ugh.
If we go by the 1.0 release, I was well into highschool, heh.
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My first computer (not counting my sisters' aging ZX Spectrum+) was something called a Nikita PC Vivaz/PC Kid. It was essentially a famiclone with keyboard and mouse, in the shape of a tower PC.
It had quite a few programs like a word processor, spreadsheets, phone book, notes, a drawing application, some BASIC variant, and various games. It was obviously quite limited in what you could do with a 4KB of battery-backed RAM "disk" shared by all applications. It also had a slot for Famicom cartridges to play regular FC/NES titles with gamepads.
I remember my friends telling me it "wasn't a computer" because it had no monitor (the display was a regular TV), and it didn't "have Windows".
This was in 1998, and I still cringe to this day.
(My first x86 machine was a 200MHz Pentium MMX tower with IIRC 16MB of RAM and 1GB disk, in 2004)
Edit: also, I didn't experience the information superhighway until IIRC 2005, in the Uni's library
I remember my brother's ZX Spectrum with what we called a chewing gum keyboard.
He had games! And decades later most of these games are still around, only the graphics improve.
I didn’t experience the information superhighway until IIRC 2005, in the Uni’s library
That's late. I remember dialing into the connection I got via uni in the early nineties. Damn I really dated myself now. Well, it's the normal amount.
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Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭
Im that in between generation that grew up in the 80s and early 90s so I feel like captain America after being defrosted sometimes
YouTube poop videos just hit better with friends at 10yo.
Mad that this was still happening only ~25 years ago
Then at ~15 years ago we suddenly all start getting smartphones
Back in 2010, one of the earliest games for the iPad was Scrabble. Each person needed their own iPhone to hold their tiles and they could flick them off their phone onto the board which was the iPad. It was mocked because nobody wanted to shell out $3000 for hardware to play a $25 board game.
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When I was 10 I'd go over to my friend's house to play Alley Cat and Shinobi. His dad had an IBM PC. Otherwise we played on my Commodore VIC-20, or went to play the arcade games at the local corner store.
I had a friend with a VIC-20 but it didn't have a tape drive. We would play games on it, but we had to type the code for the games into it by hand first, every time we wanted to play. It's wild how normal that seemed.
I had a big book full of games too which my dad bought me and I typed them in. Taught me how to code. But yeah at least I could save it to the tape drive!
Good times.