I'm officially old as fuck /b/ Who amongst us remember

>>726000157
46 here. I do remeber all these things. How old are you?

38 here, I also remember these things. Some are still a thing.

>>726000157
48 here

>>726000157
Oh, man. Fucking Zip disk drive. That takes me back.

All good with this. oldfags unite!

>>726001752
me too lol

>>726000157
Yup. Quake LAN parties. Old as fuck.

>>726000157
While I'm WAY younger, I know what all of those are except with ISDN, ADSL, and SDSL. I'd personally wanna experience a LAN party for myself and see what it is. I know it won't be like it was yesteryear, but it would be a good experience (I think).

Also, holy shit I did not know that there were actual ZIP drives for comps. Always thought they were external. Huh. The more you know.

Kids now days will never be able to tell a computers age by how yellow the plastic has turned. I remember building a new computer and that bright uniform grey color might as well have been solid gold.

OP here. I'm 30, but I guess I was ahead of the curve. I remember Quake and Unreal Tournament. Zip drives. I remember when the first CD-R drives hit the market, and the CD-RAM drives. Simpler times gentlemen.

Only twenty four, still remember a lot of that

Fucking Gateway, 56k, AOL trial discs, bbs and bbl

>>726000157
Only 0-day Zarew for me because I am l33t as fuck.

>>726002052
u just made me feel old as shit

some of you guys are older than my parents

>>726002052
I knew a guy who had a Jazz drive. I was so jealous of that capacity.

>>726002177
DVD-RAM drives. I'm pretty dronk if you can't tell.

>>726002052
Zip drives used to be common back then. before CD burners came down in price this was the go to for moving data. 3.5 drives were laughable in capacity by that time.

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>>726000157
Son, I was downloading cracked Infocom games from BBSes when you were using a Speak n Spell.

And IRC and DDoS are still things.

>>726002052
LAN parties were a lot of shit talking and Coca Cola

It was fun carrying that community into the times of Halo with the old Xbox

>>726002193
Gateway 2000 in this pic. Even before the cow boxes they'd ship the computers in.

>>726000157
33.
I remember MS-DOS, 56k modems.

also, go to vogons dot org - huge community of retrogamers out there.

i remember black & white tv

I still use IRC

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>>726000157
<<--Are you this old??

>>726002600
I remember the .nfo like it was yesterday ; )

>>726000157
bitch, I had to dial up BBS's with my 96k modem to get onto the "internet" before the world wide web as created

I remember back when they invented the wheel.

>>726000157
37
Went to a LAN party every weekend at a friends house in my late teens/early twenties. Unpacking my car took me four journeys; 17inch monitor, tower, mouse keyboards etc then a return trip for the power pack i had forgotten.

>>726002600
yes.
i used to crack music softwarez for PC.

Was the virus called netbus? Remember going online one day with my 56k modem and my CD opened

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I remember SOE Infantry.


If you played that you are old as fuck, and probably a glutton for punishment

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Hey you guys wanna buy some thicknet?

nigga I'm 20 and know all that shit, you wanna tell me I'm old?

38 here

i know that feel, but there are still lan parties which now are more like social meetings

>>726002974
waddis?

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>>726000157
I remember telegrams

>>726003066
Not old, just a punk ass bitch

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I think I am too old.

>>726002832
Like what?

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2on2 mid-high server off cuon

"AOL is the Internet."
- guy in an actual AOL commercial

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>>726000157
Wat? I'm 27 and I remember all this shit. If you're over 50 you're old as fuck, what gives?

>>726000157
i used to battle this black kid in AOE wlan party back in art class in high school with our laptops

>>726002416
There was always one person who just HAD to format their pc and waste four hours then finally hop in with the rest of everybody else.

>>726000157

Man I miss Lan parties and going to to internet cafes with 14 buddies and taking over the whole place to play Quake or Diablo... Man, gaming nowadays has gotten so gay, just a bunch of internet gangsters sitting in their basements, there is no comradery amongst gamers anymore.

>>726002903
Netbus. So many laughs with this. Made so many kids freak out.

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>>726003089
Before you had ethernet this old coax was the system for running networks. it was 10base5 You had a tap that would push a metal rod inside thus it was called vampire tap. also you could only do it on the black lines because the whole system was timed.

>>726000157
39 here and thanks for reminding me.

>>726003132
okkkkk sir

>>726003089
see above. i miss clicked.

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>>726000157
Remember all of those, what i miss the most was the Usenet alt. groups, its basically 4chan but with binaries and no mods.
How i loved to troll the alt.games.dnd ... good times.
Also there was a LOT more CP there than here, even in 2007.

>>726003066
Knowing of something and using it in its prime are two different things.

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>>726003157
like 'goldwave', 'personal composer' & shit.
i went by the name 'Mutha' back then.

>>726002213
Underage get b& faggot

who here used a screw driver to connect their nintendo?

>>726002407
Used to use Sierra bbs for kings quest walkthroughs

>>726003288
Same person always downloaded too much porn

>>726003312
Haha yeah I remember, dunno who planted it on me

>>726000157

brb, I need to look up what those are on Alta Vista

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>>726000157
I keep this ancient thing in my living room as a tribute to computing history.

50 here, I remember 14.4k modems dialing into bulletin boards, the porn was good but fuck me it was slow

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>>726002735
>96k modem
Luxury! My first modem was 28.8.

>>726002714
'Lucindo' used to make the .nfo's.
i'm 'Mutha'.

>>726003608
Yup. One guy that did this said he watched the girl next door at least once per day when it came out. Dude was a little weird.

>>726000157
>LAN parties?
huh, now that i think about it that isn't a thing anymore. just realized it

>>726003288
Haha, so true. I think my group of friends reformatted a computer probably once a week.

>>726003306
why DO you think THAT is?

>>726002052
We had a LAN party on CS 1.6 at college - no students older than 20

>>726002735
9.6k you mean.

37 here

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>>726003374
Usenet isn't dead; it just smells funny. Credit to Frank Zappa for that one.

swapping games on cassette in school and making copies on a twin cassette deck

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What i hear when people talk about autistic screeching.

>>726003448
>>726003712
Dude..., I know you!!
Are you still in touch with Aphex, Psylocke and the other guys??

>>726003688
nah man, that was a typo 9.6K (9600 bps)
(and we had to configure it by hand usually 1 stop bit, no parity)

>>726003924
Better do that in slow mode. because high speed dub messed the programs up =\

>>726003909

Spam killed the Usenet

I remember buying books every month to type a dos game into my Atari 800xl. hours spent writing out lines for the shittest games ever. Fun times.

>>726003809
Jews

>>726001824
>lol

>>726000157
wtf being able to remember LAN parties doesn't make you old
I still do them with my buds every other weekend

>>726003960
>>726003712

Samefag

>>726000157
remember all of it

ddos has always been a thing and will not stop to be a thing in the near future
warez is still a thing and will be a thing for hopefully many years to come
im on irc right fucking now

im not even old
also my lan is too cool to throw parties

>>726000157
LOL @ T1 that was huge back in the day

I remember, im 33, so I basically caught some of it, I do remember using 5.5 inch floppys, I think
they only held like 1mb each, installing a game with 5 disks.

>>726003953
quality post

>>726003815
OP here. I was playing CS during the alpha stages. Back when you had the green mystery fucking containers whatever. Someone help me out here. You didn't have an option of picking it up, if you ran over it your load out was replaced.

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>>726003960
nah.
pretty much no.
we all got old & tired.

>>726002052
We still had lan parties until like 2 years ago.

>>726000157
lol I had that exact Gateway case. Pentium 200mmx with the zip drive. Damn thing was $3k back in '97

recording hobbyscoop radio broadcasts on cassette to get games.
https://www.hobbyscoop.nl/the-history-of-basicode/

>>726004288
Aww, yeah. Windows 3.1, bitches.

>>726000157
A the sounds of that modem. Everytime I hear it now Iremember my first attempts at coding. Basic bitches. That was da shit.

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I remember BBS, playing doom on 10 base T network and becoming good at gaming when quakeworld was the shit.

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>>726003514
BBSes were the shit.
>ATDT15551234
>xmodem etc

>>726004035
Holy shit, and I am so old I just remembered it was really 1200 baud! Fuck me. Then 2400. My first INTERNET modem was 28.8...

>>726004266
One of our lecturers constantly talks about old tech (we're studying electronics and I'm 75% sure he has autism)

I think I've head the stories about when the Z80 came out a million times :^)

>>726004498
the first programming language I learned was pascal.

>>726003660
Nice

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Anyone remember this game? I used to think it was amazing.

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>>726000157
27 But I remember Lanning up for some starcraft fights. Fun times, I miss them sorely.

FidoNet, thinnet, thicknet(not used to view chunky women), dling drivers on a vendor's BBS, Computer Shopper the size of a Sears and Roebuck catalog(but fewer women's underwear pages)

>>726004500
The nostalgia is killing me. I was running a Quake 2 server up until just a couple years ago.

>>726004714
The way of the exploding fist!
I prefered yee arr kung fu

>>726003953
Classic school printer.
We had a daisy wheel printer at home. It sounded like the beach landings at Normandy only a lot louder. We bought a foam soundproof enclosure for it.

>>726004288
You guys had some of the best software cracks for years.
I miss those days.

Remember the times before spotify and Napster to, had seen therapy? On mtv2 and found the song on a ftp server which I figured out the password to, took me 15min to download the song screamager

>>726004367
Its funny how it's all the same technology, slightly updated every Moore year, still insanely high. Marketing is fucking smart. I can't imagine what some actual new technology would cost these days. An actual brand new invention in computing. Not just slightly updated same old shit.

>>726000157
33 here, remember all of those but probably on the cusp

>>726004849
Action Quake held my attention for some time, but I never really got on with the Q2 engine.
I preferred QW then HL Engine (CS).

>>726004714
I remember

>>726004714
Looks like Ryu vs Ken. Street Fighter 0.1 Beta.

>>726004858
Haha I'd completely forgotten that one. Brought back some pretty comfy memories man.

>>726004744
OP here. The first time I ever got on a computer I was dialing up with a capped 56k and typed in sex.com in NETSCAPE. I couldn't figure out how to clear the history for like 3 days and I was freaking out.

26 i remember adsl. Ddos is still a thing, and i briefly used icq before msn messenger was a thing

>>726003953

We still use these at my job...

Who remembers using a hole puncher to make 5 1/4 floppy disk two sided?

>>726000157
having to telnet
genuine fucking floppy disks
pr0n from anon.penet.fi
sneaking in a game of Loderunner on Apple IIe in the hs computer lab

>>726005061
sex.com kek

>>726004958
>An actual brand new invention in computing.
I know IBM allocated an obscene amount of money researching some new thing in quantum computing,
dont know when if ever we will see what happens with that.

>>726005056
Top game back then was Head Over Heels.
I found a version playable online once and loved it all over again. I'm sure a google search would prove fruitful.

>>726000157
I had that I think Gateway 2000?

i remember rocking gamea like hugo and blake stone off floopy disks. 386 and 486 were the shit the shit. dos 3.1 for the win

>>726004881
I preferred the daisy wheel to the dot matrix UNTIL the Near Letter Quality came out!

>>726000157
I remember that shit, but i still dont think im old.

>>726005061
Ah, Netscape. Proving that IE had been shit right from the beginning.

>>726005061
And by the way, this was on a Pentium 133. The keyboard clicked so loud the neighbors could hear it and it took 3 hours to boot.

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>>726004244
5.25" (actually) floppy disks held 360K if you had the double density/double sided ones. My first computer had two 5.25" floppy drives. No HD. 5MHz processor, 512K RAM. Amber monochrome monitor.

>>726004169
You are a know-nothing idiot.

>>726005148
Ampland.

>>726004500
Im kinda mad I never got into quake. I still remember the advertisements for it on some games. During or before installation they'd play movies.

I think I was still playing my text based rpg on aol when that was good and couldn't be bothered. Or maybe EQ was out by then. I don't remember. Was quake prime pre-1999?

>>726000157
You're officially dumb as fuck

trumpet and windows 3.11 on dialup 14400bps, old as fuck

>>726005216
Yeah, check the very bottom of the case.

>>726000157
42 here. I'm still looking for that 3.5 inch floppy with the free NetZero install on it.

Tfw I am still on an ADSL connection

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32 reporting in.

>>726002193
So you were on the internet when you were 5?

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>>726003660

Some of these old machines contain up to a 100$ worth of gold.

>>726004714
Used to play that shit in the arcades. Two joysticks.

>>726004890
thx.
good times.

>>726000157
all good releases are still available first on IRC, I still use it.
I used ADSL for a decade. I was over excited when switching from 56k .. good old napster.

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>>726000157

>Late nineties/early 2000s
>Old as fuck

Sure.

>>726005148
Ooh I remember that one!

>>726005317
Quake was booming 98-2001, then it got taken over by CS as the online game to play.
I played QWTF and was quite the Demoman.
I remember being voted the best Demoman in Europe in an online poll by a large ISP.

Good times, good times indeed.

>>726005350
also xt8088 as first PC, first comuputer was a TI99/a

>>726005313
location, location, location

if only you could go back

>>726000157
Damn, the good old Warcraft III lan parties, fucking golden. Had 5 friends brought to my house, and we were rockin' those FFAs, 3v3s. Also, god damn, I'm not even that old and I remember almost all of them.

I'm so fucking old the local radio station would one hit album each Friday night around 11:30pm. you'd take your cassette player with the FM radio in it, and tape it. They had to flip the album half way through, so you had to rewind the tape to remove the dead air.

>>726005317
The first quake came out it 1996. Quake 2 in 1997

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Does anyone remember the Navi?

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>>726004629
To be fair, Zilog's Z80 was a pretty important chip. I remember when it came out; it was a big deal.

Pictured: my first personal computer

>>726000157
I stil remember the old dial up modem that went diiiiiiiiiiiiiiduuuuuuuuuuuuuudidldidldidldiwawawawawawawtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. And then when i wanted to fap, fucking waited like t 2 minutes for a pic to load, and at the end of the month getting my ass kicked because of the large bill.

>>726005398
NetZero. You'd find that in every grocery store in america. Just load it, dial up with your modem, and be bombarded by half paged advertisements every 30 seconds.

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Remember what life was like before the Web?

>>726005514
Same here. Downloading songs on Napster used to take like 25 minutes on our modem. Then we got a DSL, and it pulled down songs in under one minute. I about shit my pants.

>>726005429
>destroy an antique for a minute amount of cash

You can also dig for it

I remember shit like icq, aim, geocities, Lycos, and Netscape was my preferred browser. When Yahoo chat was in its prime.

>>726000157
I miss the physicality of machines.

The mechanical noise of discs, gears and fans churning were what made computers so interesting.

They are much more capable these days, but the magical tangibility of it is long gone.

bolo in my 8th grade programming class was the shit.....fuck am I old.

Remember this shit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwF1zGrNriI

Lmao, I still run IRC rather than using fucking UI messaging

>>726005220
I remember we had a tv show, and you could play hugo trough the telephone and play it live on tv. I always thought it was a scam, but never had the balls to call. I did though call a porn sex line, basicaly porn.mp3 trough the phone and got my ass whooped at the end of the month.

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First computer I ever used. Exactly like the computers in Fallout.

>>726005649
Quake III Arena was our LAN game of choice. So much salt from my friends when picking up the BFG.

>>726005891
all my old IRC hangouts are abandoned....

>>726003398
yo dawg I _remember_ every of these things and/or still using

Fuck I remember using a T3 connection for the first time. Was mind blowing shit

>>726005197

Wasn't that a ZX spectrum game?

>>726006033
LPB!

>>726005845
I also love those sounds.

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Windows 3.0 emu in the browser

>>726006081
It was cross platform.

From wikipedia:
ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family, Amstrad PCW, iOS, AmigaOS

>>726005940
LOL 1-900 lines?

>>726000157
Fuck off newfag... was what I was gonna type. Then I saw your post about being 48.
But IRC and ISDN feels a bit "next gen".
Shit, C64 with all the games on regular cassete-tapes is where its at dawg!

>>726005956
+1

>>726005845
they're more electronically vulnerable and less physically reliable, too

>>726005957
IRC used to be like the Wild West.
Then the Feds figured out it was like the Wild West.
Party over.

OP you made me nostalgic and I just installed mIRC....

>>726000157
i remember all that and more, im only 33

Newfags.

Bring punchcards or go home.

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>>726000157
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.whatever the hell you wanted

>>726005845
idk what kind of spaceship computer you have, but my desktop is loud as fuck
and pretty fucking big too

>>726005758

god yes, fuck those phone bills

>>726006242
I just used it for anime and manga stuff to be honest.

>>726000157
>RC, Warez, DDoS, ISDN, ADSL, SDSL, T1, T3, OC3, and LAN parties?
nigga I remember when there were only three television networks. I remember BBSs.
you used to plug the handset of your phone into these little rubber holes on your modem, back before the modems that you just plugged a phone line into. My first computer stored programs on a fucking audio cassette, and the joystick only had ONE FUCKING BUTTON.

>>726006207
yep, at our country the pay number starts 090 . I blew like 50€ on the porn line

If you remember LYCOS you must reply to this post.

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'member this?

>>726005940
holy shit i had no idea you could do that with hugo. i remember a few parts being a bitch to finish. i was also fairly young especially being born in 89

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>>726000157
My dad had Win 3.0 at his office. He showed me how to load up duke nukem and doom when I was like five. I still remember exactly what to type in:

cd..
cd DUKE2
DUKE2

>>726005758
>and at the end of the month getting my ass kicked because of the large bill.

You had to stay up all night when the rates were cheaper drinking Jolt Cola

>>726006264
ten more people should make a post like this

>>726006081
http://playdosgamesonline.com/c64-head-over-heels.html

>>726006369
you must be my age bro.

>>726000157
>IRC
I STILL FUCKING USE IRC.
>WAREZ
PIRATED SHIT WITH A WEIRD NAME.
>DDOS
PEOPLE ARE STILL DOING THIS IDIOT.
>ISDN
OKAY, FAIR.
>ADSL/SDSL
I'M ON A DSL LINE RIGHT NOW. FUCKING COUNTRY INTERNET.
>T1/T3
YOU'RE BEING REDUNDANT.
>LAN PARTIES
>IMPLYING PEOPLE DON'T STILL DO LAN PARTIES

SERIOUSLY, FUCK YOU AND YOUR SHIT. YOU KNOW WHAT'S OLD? EXECPC BBS.

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>>726005743
Little-known bit of trivia: the reason Gates and Allen "wrote" BASIC for Altair in the basement of the CS building at Harvard is because *that's where the source code for DEC's BASIC for the PDP was kept*.

They didn't write BASIC. Like with everything else Microsoft did they just copied it and claimed it as their own work.

(Yes, I interacted with them both when they were working for MITS in Albuquerque.)

>>726006387
You called and then pressed the keys on your phone as shown on the tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBafXGRAy8

>>726005783
Remember what it was like at the beginning?
CONSTANT ADS

>>726006401
Surge > Jolt

>>726001824
you could fit a hundred megabytes on one of those things. I probably have a few still kicking around somewhere.

>>726006298
I had a Tandy box running Windows 3.0. That thing had robot noises emanating from within, several orders of magnitude higher than my current computer.

>>726006497
>>IMPLYING PEOPLE DON'T STILL DO LAN PARTIES
not really, everyones on the internet and everything is wireless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

Miss the lan parties!!

>>726003288
Yes! Fuck that guy!

>>726003479
Yep

>>726005083
Aah, good old ICQ. Icy-Q

>>726006396
wolfenstein 3D

>>726006496
shit, I'm so old when I was a young man my favorite cologne was called "New Spice"

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>>726001701
Same here
>pic related : my first PC

>>726005317
Quake was indeed at it's largest at the turn of the millenium. When it first came out most of us were playing with keyboard ONLY.
Using mouse to look around? Totaly useless! (or so most thought, until we learned the error of our ways).
Our schools computerlabs were used ALOT for Quake. we werent allowed, but it would still be 2-20 people playing on all breaks.

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>>726006585
Lightning fast 20mhz motherfucker!

>>726006293
Ahem.

>>726006661
Fuck the new games that dont have Lan suport. Nowadays its just easier to play with friends online. But fuck it it was amazing on lan parties, we used to get high and drunk playing games,

>>726006293

alt.binaries.erotica still exists, and has just about every porno ever released (except homo stuff... russians hate homos)

>>726006695
>Aah, good old ICQ.
I had a 4 digit ID...

>>726006396
>cd..
>cd DUKE2
>DUKE2
READY>LOAD "RACECAR",8
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

>>726006531

the web was non-commercial at the beginning... no ads at all

>>726006751
>$8,500 in 1989
>monitor and mouse not included
kek

WAT. I have that same exact machine in my basement. I still use it sometimes...
>>726000157

>>726006396
That sounds more like dos.

cd\
cd games
cd Doom2
Doom2

Or, when I figured out how to do a .bat file, just
Doom2

If you've never configured a soundblaster in dos, you've never lived.

>>726006751

Adjusted for inflation, that's $16,696

>>726006505
i meant this one bruv. should have clarified the name. still a cool concept playig vids on live tv though.

>>726005824
glorious yahoo mirror & cap rooms

>>726006751
This right here is why you never pay a premium for bleeding edge technology.

>>726002527
>Kids.

I remember when B&W TV's did not have detent tuners yet, they were tuned with analog knobs (coarse and fine tuning). I was about 7 when we got our first TV set at all, a Crosley (www.vintagetvsets.com/crosley.htm), before that our evening entertainment was hanging out in the living room listening to a small AM radio. I am almost certainly the record oldest b-tard.

>>726006948
Oh lawd! Is that sum Pentium 2?

Lan parties in College with dorm buddies, best multiplayer experience in my life.

>>726000157
I both remember and participated in all of these. Irc is still out there but is mostly dominated by Brazilians.

>>726006505
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo's_House_of_Horrors

sorry for my autism heres the link

>>726006963
L2 absolute path instead of relative path

>>726000157
LAN parties are still in bruh

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>>726007011

What do you fap to while you're here?

>>726006587
I tried to start a LAN party in my dorm for a program/game called biogenesis by writing the ip address to join on my door, and I heard someone walk past and say "What's a lan party?" to someone else to which the other replied "I think it means like, the internet, or something"

Why am I stuck with all these people? Im telling you people, the people born in the late 90's are fucking idiots. I hate the fact that I am technically a millennial. I think the millennials born in my age group are a special kind of stupid.

>>726007071
You know it.

>>726006401
>>726006396
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>>726006199

>nigger

>>726006701
>"New Spice"
lel.
bro, the first computer I worked on was connected to "AUTODIN" when I was in the army.
that's how fucking old I am.
for those who don't know, "AUTODIN" was the ancient precursor to "ARPANET".

>>726006531
The ads were in Usenet- and they wanted us to pay for the porn from the Usenet we were getting for free.

It was so fun to be at a LAN party and talking shit to the dude across the room while you're raping them.

>>726006497
>CRUISE CONTROLL

calm your tits sperg

>>726007178
You're not a LAN party vet unless you were hauling around CRT monitors. Get on my level.

>>726002177
You member? I member

>>726002416
Fuck...I miss those days playing Halo and CS.

>>726007219
thank you

I remember being jealous of people using cd's when i was stuck with 3 1/2 floppies.

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some of my old shit

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days wasted

>>726007266
Exactly! Or hearing something from their speakers that gave you an advantage. I hear you just pick up the Mega Health? I now know exactly where you are on the map.

>>726002450
I remember when Gateway had stores. One of them in my town is now a Q'doba.

>>726007377

I remember my friend giving me Duke 3D on floppies. Got home and started installing, only to have a corrupt disk a couple from the end.

>>726007184
>things that never happened

>>726007266
Or watch someone type 'LOL' in game chat with a straight face.

OP checking in. I didn't realize this shit would become such a heated debate. I'm just drunk and being nostalgic. Carry on

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>>726005948
yupers

>>726005088
We do too. I work as a contractor for many state and city government applications. These are still available brand new from Okidata but mainly used for carbon copy license forms.

>>726007474
That retail space is forever destined to sell overpriced shit.

>>726007183
>www.vintagetvsets.com/crosley.htm
i'm guessing your grandmother

>>726000157
>Warez

Holy shit! I haven't heard that in over 20 years. I was 11 and used to think I was a "hacker" because I had those shitty little programs that allowed you to post macros and change your font in AOL chatrooms.

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but the worst POS was...

>>726007508
Ever get to create your own Duke 3D maps with Build? That was some fun shit.

>DDoS
>ADSL SDSL
>T1 T2
>LAN Parties
All those are still relevant today.

And I'm not sure what warez are.

And I still use IRC (2 people in my channel). 33 year old fag here.

> 1996 start going on MIrc to find free games
> make friends with a guy living in a dorm with a fast internet connection and has an ftp
> semi big pirate group invites him in their team because he has a fast ftp site
> I tag along somehow and join their team
> that group merges with a top 10 trading gro
> Am now trading on top 3 Euro sites (where the cracking groups upload there stuff first
> my leader gets busted by the Feds, getting extradited to the US and goes to jail
> retire from pirate scene, i just wanted free games on fast ftps, not risc jail!

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>modem keeps stalling

>hmm, better randomly change the AT commands

>>726006963
>sounds more like dos.
Windows 3 was on DOS, n00b. Windows didn't outright replace DOS as the start-up UI until Windows 95. Sure, you could autoexec Windows if you wanted, but you didn't have to.

>>726007467
No...no that second one is being a gold gun faggot.

>>726007178
This. LAN parties will be around until ISPs upgrade their infrastructure; so always.

IRC is still a thing, especially with scanlation and fansubs.

>>726007782
Dial your ISP and get a busy signal. I would rage so hard.

>>726007663
Commodor Pet64 with a tape player which was your hard drive. You would save programs on it, so you could continue writing them the next day. The fucking tape would eventually stretch, and you'd lose all of your data. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

>>726007663
Thats what I had in jr high school
bought myself a VIC-20

>>726007624
That would be a good guess! But I have a (still) perfectly functional wife, so fapping not necessary.)

>>726007849
>fansubs
are dead anon

>>726007800
Hey, not my fault if their speakers are up too loud amd I have the gamr sounds and maps memorized.

>>726004054
The Feds killed Usenet

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>>726007708
I'm the author of Outworld, Endworld and Pigworld. Also Doom2's Tight.wad

>>726002052
My cousin just had a LAN party a few weeks ago.

The last LAN party I went to was at my uncles house when I was like 13. It was cool a lot of yelling and joking and sore necks.

>>726008041
among other things.

>>726007911
>(still) perfectly functional wife

And before you say it, "still" means ongoing, not immobile.

>>726000157
I remember

>>726008009
Almost, with CR and HS taking over, but it's well on its way to die.

>>726000157
Why the fuck are people older than 30 lurking here. Don't you have families or careers or something? I just find it odd that adults almost halfway through their life spend their time on such a juvenile website

>>726008009
i never thought id see the day

>>726002052
>wanna experience a lan party
just take your desktop/laptop to a friend's place and play something. It's like playing normal multiplayer vidya except you can shit talk in person, hang out between matches and if shit get's boring you can mix it up with some beers/food/tv.

>>726008081
I made one level with a bottomless pit in the middle. If they fell in during the match, they'd never respawn because they'd be falling the whole match. Cut a rectangle out of the floor, stood on top of it, pointed the cursor at my feet, placed a D battery on the Page Down key, went and ate lunch for like 20 minutes.

>>726008181
>families or careers

he fell for the meme guys

>>726000157
The first computer I ever built was a pentium II with a 4gb hard drive

I remember windows 3.1 and 5¼ floppy discs

I had a .jaz drive

am I old

>>726008181
go finish your algebra homework & then you can come back & play for a little while.

>>726000157

Im only 25 and I remember windows 3.1 MSDOS and other shit like that

>>726008181
Because juvenile tits never get old.

>>726008181
no family and haven't had a job since I got fired in 2006 and Bush didn't think Mericans needed jobs anymore.

>>726008021
>not my fault if I'm way too into it

Yeah that guy.

>>726008181
Hey, people over 30 have to fill the void of time while on the shitter too.

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>>726008181
>Don't you have families or careers or something?

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My first computer, with a RAM expansion to 128K(standard was 64K) and two expansion 8 inch floppies for a total of three. A Cadillac. Cost nine grand.

>>726008181

You'll understand when you're older.

(You're basically the same person, only cynical and tired)

>>726008181
why the fuck don't kids ever realize they're stupid and shut up?....that's why.

>>726008402
my first had a maxtor 20MB hdd.
that was the largest hdd you could get at the time.

>>726000157

42 m

DOS 6.22. I could squeeze base memory like a hulk to get at least 621Kb.

>>726008181

reddit is better? facebook?

>>726008615
Gold post of the year award.

The first computer i used run ms-dos, my first game console was an atari, so pretty much yes

>>726008827
I've never had a game console

>>726000157
>>726000157
>r IRC,
still use it
> Warez,
old word people still pirate
>DDoS, ISDN, ADSL,
all still is use
> SDSL,
Wot?
> T1,
My company has two of em
> T3, OC3,
IDK the prevealence of these
>and LAN parties?
we dont leave the house anymore dad

wireless LAN parties (without actually meeting each other irl)

>>726008862
that is just being poor, not old

>>726005417
mybe hes a eurofag

>>726008974
kek

>>726008685
That was the first comp I ever built, not owned

But I concede the point, you old bastard

You can probably roughly guess my age from that

>>726000157
First computer I had was a commodore 64, kept that for fucking years before finally getting a Pentium 3 500 with win95.

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member dis anyone??

>>726009402

Why would you have a Pentium 3 500 with Win95 when Win98 and possibly ME were all the rage?