/g/ nostalgia?

>>47682259
What is this 14.4k bullshit? I had a 1200 baud serial modem at the time.

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>>47682367
a pissing contest about how slow someone's modem was?

>yea well I was using 300 BAUD before you were borned!

>when someone would answer the phone
>wait mom no!!!

Getting on the internet used to be the shit now the internet is shit

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>>47683892
i blame web 2.0 and the need for social media everything.

>early web
>DONT GIVE OUT YOUR FUCKING PERSONAL INFORMATION! STOP IT!
>Today web
>GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OTHERWISE YOU CANT DO SHIT!

>>47682259
-Friends who had 56k modem were a BIG FUCKING DEAL

-"Let's play on my epic, cutting edge computer!!! Windows 95!!! (boot crash)"

-Fucking addicted to TIE Fighter

-Using e-mail was totally fucking cutting-edge

-RealPlayer

-Land line phones were still a major thing

-Pete & Pete, Rugrats, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark

>>47682381
I actually did use a 300 baud modem but have no idea if it was before anon was born. If you picked up the phone and pressed a key on the keyboard, at 300 baud you could actually hear each character go through.

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>>47683973
>e-mail was totally fucking cutting-edge
i love how back in the early 2000s governments were looking at way to tax emails as a way to make up for revenue shortfalls for their mail systems only to abandon it when people late in the decade began foregoing email for internal email systems/Lync or phone (text/apps) because of the stupid levels of spam we have reached.

The first hentai site I ever fapped to can still be visited on archive.org, thank you based archive.org

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>>47684058
fucking share

>>47684169
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508050957/http://www.portland.quik.com/kylite/saturn/index.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012210936/http://portland.quik.com/kylite/saturn/saturn_hentai01.html

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>>47682259
Just one more day..

Most of what is posted here isn't nostalgia, it's trauma.

>>47684264
i have always wondered how coders managed back in the days when 640x480 monitors could only display just half a dozen lines of code at a time

>>47684294
Idk, I code now on a 80x42ish char terminal window.

I have learned to not make mistakes

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>>47682259
>>47684222

>>47684294
By not using bloated as fuck IDEs.

>>47684903
Back when KDE and SuSE were good.

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I wish I had a copy of the websites I used to build using this software.

>>47684990
SuSE was never good.

>>47684965
I'm glad it's dead.

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>>47684965
>not posting the superior version

>>47685123
coffeecup html editor

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It's been over 15 years and my brain still recognizes it as a quite recent game

>>47683999
>those bitrates

>>47685405
February 25 2015 wasn't 15 years ago anon

>16000~ years remain

oh dial up

>>47685683
Millennials summed up in one post

>>47685745

Holy shit, I still use 7 and even all that junk seems nostalgic to me now. I used to fucking love the weather widget. The analog clock seemed totally redundant though.

>>47685706
I would have loved to have that when I was 13.

Windows ME was the most stable system for me.

>>47683918

I remember being a kid on web chatrooms in the 90s and other kids wouldn't even give out their email address because their parents had told them not to.

I'd be having an amazing chat about how cool Dexter's Laboratory was or some shit and I was like "OK I want to talk to this dude on a more regular basis" then he'd be like "sorry my parents said I can't give my email address" and I never saw them again.

>>47683918

Hey grandpa, literally all you have to do is install an ad blocker and you'll never see social media shit ever again.

>>47683999

Oh yeah, you're totally right, because no one uses email now. MORON.

>>47685706
>Intel Celeron Processor 333MHz

That thing must have been dog slow. Not because of the clock speed, but because it's a Celeron.

Does anyone have any memory of being a child in 1993 and there were special online games that you had to boot from a disk?

I specifically remember this was not AOL or anything like that. There were also forums where you could chat with other people and discuss random shit.

>>47685961
I didn't have internet until 1997

>>47685706
man i played the fuck out of that game tho

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>>47685706

>>47686656

This computer is NEVER obsolete

:^)

>>47683973
>-Friends who had 56k modem were a BIG FUCKING DEAL
More like friends who were able to actually use 56k and not 33k because the phone line was shit
>-"Let's play on my epic, cutting edge computer!!! Windows 95!!! (boot crash)"
Muh windows 9x crash meme
>-Using e-mail was totally fucking cutting-edge
Maybe in the 80s. Emails and mailing lists were fucking common in the 90s
>-Land line phones were still a major thing
I lived in a socialist country and we only got our first landline phone in the early 90s

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>>47684294
Like this.

>>47685745
>>47685765
Isn't that a theme pack for XP? lel

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/rec.arts.movies.erotica/uO17LU-a4lM

Even in 1997 people online were arguing about black cock.

>>47685910

Celeron 333 was a good processor.

>>47685123
I still remember the tune and the dog barking when you opened it.

>>47687141
Indeed. The very first celerons without any secondary cache at all were horrible, though

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>>47682259
Why Would I Need Nostalgia ?

>>47687237
What are you running on that to get that CPU usage?

>>47687254
Folding@Home and Bionc
Distributed Computing for Medical Sciences and Astrophysics

>>47687237
>windows XP
>nostalgia
sure kiddo

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Tfw

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>>47687319
i can go back in time if i dig through my older hdd backups. I hold onto things way past their prime (and sometimes usefulness)

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>>mom wouldn't buy me halo CE
>>just played halo demo all day every day after school in secret
>>she'd come by regularly and uninstall it

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>MissyVixen

>>47684903
>16 million TB in 4 folders
>nostalgia

>>47685148
>>47684903
SuSE was always good. Only good KDE was KDE3.

>>47687337
>AmigaOS

Is that shit still being maintained?

>>47687369
>linux
>good
lel

>>47685683
September 28 1999 was, though.

>>47687394
>look mom i posted it again

>>47683918
>warn button
>nostalgia

>>47687392
Aos 4.1 is still currently active, but after Aos 3.9, core components of older systems are lacking as the rights to them are owned by things like gateway and xerox after the commodore fire sale in 94

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>>47682259

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>>47682259

>Go over 20 hours for the month
>Bill comes in
>Mom goes apeshit

random BSOD bullshit
that "lock" on 3.5inch floppy disks
dragging the windows Error prompt around the screen to create post-modern art
paranoiacally spammming Ctrl+s
Eerie noice from the dial-up moderm
Can't use internet while calling someone

More recent:
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>>47686911
>Emails and mailing lists were fucking common in the 90s

Not as common as you might think anon.

>Spam e-mails about pyramid schemes
>Java chat rooms that were about as stable as an autistic kid on crack
>"Ate my balls" sites
>Pr0n sites that were just giant lists of links to porn sites that were just giant lists of links to porn sites...
>Geocities
>Fan pages that were just copy/pastes of everyone elses fan page
>The Anarchist Cookbook

Remember web rings?

One of the first web sites I ever visited, somewhere during the 90's, was a fucking gore site.
Fuck my life.

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>>47682259
Wake up to a nostalgia thread on /g/ with a bowl of life cereal...
Is this real life?
>pic related
>still have this monstrosity

>>47687641
Well I'll be damned. Rotten.com is still around, and looks like it's still being updated.

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>Dragonball Z website
>tons of animated gifs
>tables for layout
>coming home everyday after school to watch dbz on Toonami

I feel sorry for kids now. Nothing but Shitter, Dumblr, and other garbage. When I was a kid, you were popular for either being the smart kid, the funny kid, or the athletic kid; things that built character. Now kids rank their popularity on who is the biggest attention whore or who has the most unique gender. Parents are also giving them faggot names. What happened to Jason, Mark, Nick, or Brad? Now it's Skylar, Caleb, Tristan, or Brayden. They're also trying to push iPads for every student in school. Fuck. That would be like trying to advocate for Gameboys in class. They just use them for playing Angry Birds and sending nudes to each other. But these faggot parents think that by giving their kids glorified toys that their faggot kids will become the next Steve Jobs.

>>47687662
>monstrosity
nigga please, win98SE is a marvelous OS

>>47687783
>SE
let me tell you about things breaking, because that single floppy fucked over windows98 so bad i went back to my '87 macintosh with the 24mb HDD just to get some shit done.

>tfw you still have a cd rack full of old disks from the 90's

>>47685706
Looks very nearly like my first PC, except mine had W95 and a 266MHz MMX Celeron.

And my first upgrade was getting a daisy-chained 8MB Voodoo2.

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>>47683918
>actually using AOL's AIM program.
Can't believe I used to do that.

>>47685892
>Huh? What forest?
>I just see a whole lot of trees.

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GFA d-(-) s:+ a C++ UL P++ L+ E---- W+++ N+ !o K+++>+++++$ w++ !O !M V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t 5++ X R- tv b+ DI++ D G e h+ r+ y++
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>>47687826
>i went back to my '87 macintosh with the 24mb HDD just to get some shit done.

Reminds me of a long night installing Vista.

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>>47685706
I'll see that and raise you this monstrosity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000706191546/http://www.littletikes.com/jcpenney/products.asp?sku=653-0550

Any Amigafags here?

Voyager had tabbed browsing in the mid-nineties.

>>47687988
>not posting the new and improved version

http://www.littletikes.com/xfg-parts-holder/young-explorer-pc-pal/invt/601491x1

>>47688019
read that as little kikes

>>47688028
man you need to get off /pol/

>>47685188
Fuck.

https://youtu.be/OMU3GQsNB1k

>>47688019
I don't know what's worse, the fact that 15 years later they're still making and selling a version of this, or that they want $2300 for a shitty plastic desk with a $500 computer inside of it.

>>47688062
https://youtu.be/RlmzwZXa-Ww

>>47688062
Gotta love John Cleese.

>>47687743
Thats the most angry old man post I've seen in a long time.

>>47688087
Whenever I hear how it costs like $250,000 to raise a child these days, I think of how few parents have the iron will to avoid buying shit like this.

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>>47687743
fuck off grandpa i can do what i want

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>>47688019

>>47688140
go back to dumblr and shitter!

>>47687743
>angelfire

Man, Angelfire and Geocities had some of the best websites. Though most of it was a million "under construction" and dancing babby gifs, there were so many that were just packed with hard-to-find info because some autist threw up a page about his adventures in cheesemaking or some shit.

>>47685189
Man those were the days

When I was 7 I was playing AOL free games and in AOL "anime" themed chat rooms while living with a bunch of poor russian people. Those were the days.

>>47688019
>>47688087

>4:30 PM
>kid spills juice on dad's laptop
>dad is working from home today and needs to get that report in to Mr. Henderson by EOB at 5:00
>dad is now forced to do serious business on that plastic shitbox

This must have happened at least once.

Thread theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5LQcmuGg8

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>Look up Linken Park music and DBZ AMV videos
>End up getting Sailor Moon porn, Bonzi Buddy malware, and CP

T-thanks Kazaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DST-6jIBU

>>47688019
'murika never ceases to surprise me

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Does anyone remember this? Had a slow pos interface but you could configure windows dial-up networking to connect directly. They were the first to offer a flat unlimited monthly rate. I used to do the first month free trial ISP roullette before this.

>>47688294

>on my dads computer
>download linkin park tracks
>tricked into downloading one of those intheend.mp3.exe type files
>all of a sudden my dads email is overrun with porn spam
>mum finds it
>gets all mad at him for looking at nudey women on the internets
>to this day they dont know it was me

D E V I L I S H

>Year 2000, middle school
>I am "that kid who can get any song/album and put it on a cd for you"
>Did this for whoever asked, could have made $hundreds$ but thought the FBI would get me if I accepted money for it

>>47688420
That's one of those things I wish I had thought to do back then.
Could have bought my own video games and what not back then.

>>47688420
>Year 2000, middle school
how underage can you be

>>47687743
>Toonami
Man those little clips between shows were sick. That whole spaceship looked awesome

>>47688232
More like
>Wife takes away the computer because he stays up all night watching porn
>Surfing the web for porn on your kids plastic piece of crap

>>47688476
Middle school is for 10-14 year olds. That would make OP 25 to 29 currently

>>47688342
>mad for him looking at porn

your mom is a stupid bitch

bet they got divorced later

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You could just keep putting newer and better CPUs in this little thing.

>>47685910

Celerons were outstanding for overclocking.

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Your childhood never started unless you saw this guy on your POST screen.

>>47689604
You had a shitty computer if you saw that.

>>47689641
>Implying a generic clone was going to be any better.

>>47684903
this gives me them feels

>>47683973
>tie

Did you also get the dreaded STACK OVERFLOW message? That drove my young self crazy. Even learned how to use a boot floppy to play with memory.

>>47686931
Mah nigga. Loved Turbo C and TASM for muh demoz.

>>47687550
This chart basically explains why the internet went to shit. In essence, poor people eventually got connected and shat the place up.

>>47687743
>Brayden
And infinite faggier variations on this... Jayden, kayden, gayden, etc. All spelled as retardedly as possible.

http://fauux.neocities.org/

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>>47689813

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>>47683973
>1990s
>Homeland Security didn't exist
>pre 9/11
>no war, only peace and happiness
OH GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

>>47687345
Fun story about the Halo CE Trial:

In high school, my school district had dedicated hardlines running about the city. This meant that the network was a giant city-wide LAN, not a series of VPNs. This meant that you could fire up Halo CE and play with people at other schools over LAN.

We used to sneak into classrooms during lunch to play it.

>>47687616
>Twibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM7C0GLclJk

>>47690255
In the 90s politicians were desperate for another boogyman since the soviet union collapsed.
Desert storm helped though.
Generally the helping of bin laden to fight commies set the stage for the modern world we live in.
Kinda, anyway. The petroblackmail shit of the 70s really set the stage a lot more though. And that only happened because of the cold war. Which happened because of WW2, which happened because of WW1, which happened because of fuck knows

>>47688476
I went to middle school from 2004-2007. I'm 22, almost 23.

>>47687419
>look mom I posted it again

>>47687601
>Pr0n sites that were just giant lists of links to porn sites that were just giant lists of links to porn sites...
We still have those

>>47690437
>look mom I posted it again

>>47690467
it's not as funny when you do it :\

>>47690467
>look mom I posted it again

>>47690558
lol

>>47690457
Last time I used one of those sites I found cheese pizza in around 30 minutes.

>>47686982
Wat
You can see its a beta version of 7, says it right in the corner

Playing street rod on my 486, awesome game.

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This shit.

>>47682381
>borned
slav pls

>>47687743
>ever liking dragon ball z
>thinking he has an elite opinion

>>47687271
why?

>>47682259
>tfw you had 10,000 warez in your inbox and could download whichever you wanted
>tfw you no longer needed BBSes to pirate

>>47690377
> cold war
> Which happened because of WW2
That's not quite true, I think. Cold (or not so cold) war with USA should have happened anyway, because of the communists' ideology. You know, fight a capitalistic society and all that.

>>47692007
Wow, Anon. I never quite looked at it like that before. Your profound and unique understanding of history has caused me to rethink all of my prior assumptions. In the process, I have come to respect your superior intellect and wonder why the rest of the world hasn't recognized you for your genius. In the meantime, while I tell everyone about you, I hope to get to know you better so that I can continue to take pleasure in your wisdom.

>>47692121
You're being over-sarcastic, tone it down a little.

>>47687237
post pics of MissyVixen

>>47682381
>Expand dong

>>47691925
>tfw AOL implemented file attachment expiration at 30 days =(

>wait your Mass Mail files are > 15 days? QUIT SPAMMING ME CUNT

>>47690377
Really WW1, WW2, and the brushfire wars up until 2001 were all the same conflict.

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I see exactly one thread on one page one not shilling a specific consumer product.
It is this one.
Bumping for something other than advertising campaigns on page one.

>>47685189
>tfw i was a 13 year old sysop on the zone
times were good back then.

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>>47683918
>make account for Website X
>Oh, I'll just use the same nickname I use everywhere else online, that gives me less to remember.
Why did I ever think that was a good idea?

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>>47685387
Remember the BeOS 4.5 demo on a CD?

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>>47685189
>ZoneAlarm

>>47687994
>Any Amigafags here?

A4000, PicassoIV, Cyberstorm '060, 32MB of RAM, GVP SCSI II, AriadneII ethernet card, 1GB hard drive.

All the bitches...

>>47688557
True that... from shitty old Durons to Barton core CPUs.

>>47689863
actually, it used to be hard to connect to the internet, stupid people eventually got connected.

>>47688476
Y-you realize it's 2015, right anon?

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>>47693910
"you've got mail"

>>47688420
>1993 middle school
>I am the only one i know with internet at home
>muh 9600 baud modem

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>>47692007
>2007
>>47692121
underrated post

>>47689604
>implying packard bells weren't massive pieces of shit

I built my first computer from scratch, pentium mmx 233, intel tuscon motherboard, 3dfx voodoo graphics card, 32MB of ram, 2.5GB hdd

>>47693456
What's wrong with this? I do this all the time.

>>47694343
You get doxxed that way

>>47694358
I'm a nobody, so I don't have to worry about that

>>47694474
Tell that to all the nobodies that got doxxed.

>>47687237
>AIMP

MY NIGGA

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>>47687337

Oh fuck. I remember having that exact same wallpaper. Good times.

>>47694358

Just use different names for degeneracy.

Who cares if you get doxxed if nothing embarassing or damaging is found.

>>47693456
>Make a separate outlook email with a fake name
>Associate same usernames with that fake alias
>Keep your real name and photos separate

It's that easy.

>>47691925

>Download 700 attachments for Tomb Raider
>1 of them is corrupt

>>47694343
Makes it near impossible to live your teenage stupidity down

>>47694567
Do you have any idea where you are right now?

>>47694523
THIS FUCKING CHRONICLER

>>47694505
I sent out like 3 dozen DCMA takedown requests of my old teenage postings.

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>>47682259
>PSP Porn

I loved this aspect of my teenage years.

>>47687867
Fuck, it hurts to admit it. I'm Dutch so everyone from school was on MSN, but I knew some people from Deviantart who were only on AIM.

>>47682259
>implying AOL4.0 in 1995

>>47694706
Ooooooh yeah

Zune orange-black theme for XP

>>47685706
>tfw I bought one just because of the $750+ in software wasn't a lie

It was seriously a grab bag of a bunch of shit I was going to buy anyway, so it was like getting a decent computer for free after buying all the games and software I wanted and a wheel/pedals combo (which weren't cheap back then)

>>47689604
uggghhh packardbell holy shit my parents bought like 3 of these since the other 2 mobo's caught flame. remember msdos games like 3d body adventure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfb4qKGjQcs

>>47694706
I remember wanting to show off to my older sister that I could use Google on my PSP. I let her see the screen but forgot that I left "hentai" right in the search box. Good times.

>>47690377

>WW1, which happened because of fuck knows

Europoors doing what they do best, of course.

>>47689604

I was using a 386SX-16 Packard Bell for legacy shit about 6 months ago, piece of shit.

I traded it to one of my friends for a stack of dead SPARCStations.