Topic: What's your internet age? (Read 7541 times)

Kazz · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2008, 11:09:52 AM »

I downloaded full South Park episodes on 56k.

Even as terribly compressed as they were, it took all day.

Koah · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2008, 11:41:57 AM »

There's a giant chunk gone in my memory that, among other things, probably contained what my earliest Internetting experiences were like. It's probably for the best that I find myself unable to remember them.

Catloaf · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2008, 12:10:55 PM »

I am personally ludicrously ashamed at how naive I was as a kid. Although having a mac didn't help. I remember my friends talking about starcraft when it first came out and having no idea what they were talking about but playing along like I did.

Thinking about it, I now realize that I am ashamed of my entire childhood* and can't even follow my past logic for the things that I did. I sometimes like to think that I was just a lost soul that stole this body and its memories.

*Excluding the parts with my cats

François · « **Reply #23 on:** May 15, 2008, 12:13:54 PM »

First I was on the now-gone forums on phantasy-star.net for a while. Then PSO came out and I left. After that I spent a long time at the now-gone forums there, a bunch of crap happened, and I left. Then I got on pyoko, a bunch of crap happened, and I mostly kind of left. Then I got on the WFE, not much crap has happened, and I'm ~~leaving~~ still here!

McDohl · « **Reply #24 on:** May 15, 2008, 02:30:41 PM »

I puttered around AOL for a long time back when I was 12, and I'm 24 now. So I've been internetting for 12 years. I think about 10 of that was lurking in the #verge, and later #finalfight community somewhere in high school.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #25 on:** May 15, 2008, 02:31:35 PM »

Ahh, #verge. What a shithole.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #26 on:** May 15, 2008, 02:36:23 PM »

Let's see...started out on AOL, didn't do much there. Then I moved to WChat, then a couple of different IRC channels, then I discovered Thor through RPGamer, then Sharkey via a link on Thor's site, then Pyoko/#finalfight, and now here.

Around the late 90s, I played Medievia a lot. Then I moved to Necromium when it spun out of Medievia, where I wrote a terrible poem for some kind of memorial when one of the players got killed by a drunk driver or something.

Also, I remember when Seanbaby used to be funny.

Shinra · « **Reply #27 on:** May 15, 2008, 03:01:05 PM »

I had a pokemon fansite on Angelfire with a tiled animated background of a Doom monster. I think it was the chaingunner.

Niku · « **Reply #28 on:** May 15, 2008, 03:31:21 PM »

SNES A-L, The Arena.

That is all.

Cannon · « **Reply #29 on:** May 15, 2008, 05:29:32 PM »

Hole-in-the-wall ezboard (since moved) with a general theme of Transformers discussion and assorted geekery. So... Around eight or nine years, really. Which about explains my sense of humor ~~now~~back in the day.

Kazz · « **Reply #30 on:** May 15, 2008, 05:32:50 PM »

The first site I went to frequently was Shlonglor's WarCraft 2 website. (Shlonglor went on to become GFrazier, Blizzard's forum admin.)

I actually remember when I was downloading the War2 demo. I was on DragonSpires, a game about knights who picked up and then put down beer bottles as they whined about when combat would be re-implemented. Two other people were on, and I told them was I downloading a demo for "some game named WarCraft 2: Tides of Darkness." I recall this event because I went on to claim that I was a programmer who was programming a game about a megalomaniacal poodle. They asked what I programmed in, and I told them "GW-Basic." Wow, me. Wow.

DragonSpires was eventually abandoned, in favor of a little game you may have heard of which I swear to God I did not spend any time on.

Anyway, I went on to love WarCraft 2, so I went on to anticipate Starcraft greatly, so I went on the Blizzard forums and found a community of extremely silly people calling themselves CWAL, and things progressed from there yadda yadda stories about raping people with chainsaws blah blah and now I have free webspace for life or something.

Bal · « **Reply #31 on:** May 15, 2008, 05:47:06 PM »

I got onto the internet relatively late, only about '99 or 2000 or so. My mom never wanted to pay the old terrible rates, and then for awhile I didn't have a working computer. The first community I was involved in was probably GameSpy, back when it was a relevant product.

Brentai · « **Reply #32 on:** May 15, 2008, 06:36:39 PM »

Quote from: Kazz on May 15, 2008, 05:32:50 PM

Two other people were on, and I told them was I downloading a demo for "some game named WarCraft 2: Tides of Darkness." I recall this event because I went on to claim that I was a programmer who was programming a game about a megalomaniacal poodle. They asked what I programmed in, and I told them "GW-Basic." Wow, me. Wow.

I think I actually know a guy who was making a game about megalomaniacal dogs in GW-BASIC around that time.

Büge · « **Reply #33 on:** May 15, 2008, 07:17:31 PM »

I got internet around 1996 or 1997... I remember my friend had it before me, but he still used BBSes to get files and chat and stuff. He also discovered NES emulation and MP3s for us to enjoy, while I... found a lot of hentai. And there was maybe ten english hentai sites back then. Most of them had crappy selections and long load times, if they loaded at all. There was no 4chan back then either, oh no. If you wanted the good stuff, you had to get it yourself by brute-force searching every japanese website you came across.

Kids don't know how hard it was to get electronic fap material in those days.

Detonator · « **Reply #34 on:** May 15, 2008, 07:49:24 PM »

Around 96 I was on the Prodigy BBS on an ancient Mac, swapping rumors about how to revive General Leo.

Near the end of 97 I finally got a PC and tooled around with Quake 2 and was a member of a Pokemon message board.

Some time later I discovered Sharkey's webcomic, which then begat a website, which begat a chatroom, which begat a forum, which begat a legacy.

Catloaf · « **Reply #35 on:** May 15, 2008, 08:56:43 PM »

Quote from: Büge on May 15, 2008, 07:17:31 PM

Kids don't know how hard it was to get electronic fap material in those days.

Oh so true. Back before 4chan one truly had to work at it to find hentai. And before Myspace, and Youtube (and their clones/spinoffs) free amateur human porn was also a scarcity. And both were only static images!!! There were no videos back then! And if you did find a video it was more likely a virus than anything else.

Thad · « **Reply #36 on:** May 15, 2008, 09:04:21 PM »

Quote from: eloH on May 15, 2008, 06:36:39 PM

I think I actually know a guy who was making a game about megalomaniacal dogs in GW-BASIC around that time.

QBasic.

But that was a port of the original HyperCard version.

Quote from: Detonator on May 15, 2008, 07:49:24 PM

Around 96 I was on the Prodigy BBS on an ancient Mac, swapping rumors about how to revive General Leo.

Brent and I were totally on that same board.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #37 on:** May 16, 2008, 08:16:53 AM »

Quote from: Büge on May 15, 2008, 07:17:31 PM

Kids don't know how hard it was to get electronic fap material in those days.

The dark ages when just normal breasts gave me erections.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #38 on:** May 16, 2008, 10:14:22 AM »

Quote from: Büge on May 15, 2008, 07:17:31 PM

Kids don't know how hard it was to get electronic fap material in those days.

It was all about the newsgroup readers and usenet. Just set the fucker to trawl alt.binaries.midget.snuff.weird all night, then spend the next day picking out the actual porn in the catch.

I don't know how I ever survived with dial-up.

Brentai · « **Reply #39 on:** May 16, 2008, 10:26:55 AM »

I remember when it was actually harder to get porn that wasn't underaged.

I TOTALLY DID IT THOUGH THANK YOU FBI

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