BACK IN THE DAY

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>>61010968
Still the most fun I've ever had playing a video game

>wuts lime wire?
>download linkin park songs at 3-4kbps
>sister gets viruses
>dad bitches and whines
>fix family computer
>family emachines @2ghz remains in bedroom
>steal C&C generals and play lots of RA2
>sister wants 2 play Tycoon
>become tycoon
>sad because can't tycoon while sister tycoons tycoon
>get broadband
>nobody plays games anymore, can't get dad off internet
>viruses
>TYCOOOOOOON

>be 11
>no friends
>tired of playing famicom
>get computer
>shitpost on usenet, fidonet and various other pre www platforms
good times

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>tfw wanted to write something but have 0 memories of my childhood

>>61011008

Still remember when my uncle gave me his old 286, which had nothing but DOS, Norton Commander and a few office programs on the HDD. No games installed, floppy drive damaged, all hope is lost...

>tfw you open qbasic and discover Nibbles and Gorillas!

>>61010968

>me, I be, you see
>christmas morning early like 2 am
>fuck yeah santa came!
>DAAAAADDD!! DAAAADDD! SANTA FUCKING CAME!
>dad stumbles out of eggnog induced coma
>Oh shit nigga, it's a VIC 20!
>fuck yeah 3 am getting syntax errors and some fucking pitfall
>dad crashes out
>he was a good sport
>eat some stocking cancy like the little bastard i am
>continue getting pissed off at star trek and moon patrol all morning

1981

>be me
>11 years old
>First computer with next gen future-proof Pentium processor and out of a sci-fi novel dialup internet connection.
>Be told in school about this program to get files and stuff, KaZaA. I write it on a paper and take it home.
>Download it and start filling my hard drive with Blink 182 and Control Machete songs.
>See if theres naked ladies stuff, there is.
>Watch shitty porn and think I'd be cooler if they were around my age.
>Search for "sexo 11 años porno" or something, 875365774 results.
>Literally downloaded cp all night and checked it in the morning.
>ohmanitsalloldguysandstuff.ace

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>>61012919

>you will never experience this again

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>>61010968
Runescape.

Also, long before RS:
>be in primary school, 2004
>go to friends house
>his older brother is some hacky-whacky tech fella who likes to tinker with computers, has three PCs in his room
>connects two computers so friend and I can play Age of Empires multiplayer
I was amazed. That's how I first learned about computer networks.

I also used to bore the shit out of the guy's brother, asking him to teach me hacking. The guy brought me a snapped-off UTP cable, started dividing the wires. "This is where it all starts. The current. Once you know how this works, you slowly build on it."

I thought it was really deep back then lol

>>61013277
:(

>>61011306
Same man, I guess my childhood just sucked.

>summer
>stay up until 5 every night
>play neopets
>check out videos on new grounds
>play hentai dating games
>try to rub one off in computer room
>never got caught
>get on AOL
>find chatroom for mothers
>troll mothers with poop jokes
>play some unreal tournament
>AOL banned our account
>parents discover I'm a troll

>Getting to play educational games on the Apple II once you finished your classwork.
>Playing flash games for first time.
>Playing N64 for first time.
>Purchasing illicit shit off ebay using money order.
>Discovering Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, then 4chan.
>Doxing pedos you meet in chatrooms.
>Actually showing your boyhole to some pedos you meet in chatrooms.

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>>61010968
>be me
>NES is the only computing device I've ever had
>big Super Mario fan
>never had seen 3D graphics
>Super Mario 64 is revealed for the first time on TV showcasing gigantic open 3D worlds
>Biggest jaw-drop I'll ever experience on my life, absolute wizardy
>Can't even begin to comprehend how it's possible to control anything in 3D

>>61012112
>tfw you'd mod it to make on-target explosions city-leveling nukes

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>>61015342

:)

games were so much more magical back in the day.. especially rpg's

>>61015233
Damn, I began 3D with X-Wing (glorious game, just less glorious than Tie Fighter XD)

I really wasn't at all into Mario 64 but I felt the same way you did when I saw my first commercial for Goldeneye! XD XD XFUCKINGD!!!

>>61010968
>Limewire

Hello Grandpa.

>typing course back in 1996
>pasting games' shortcuts into a floppy disk
hilarious. it was not fun when I got home and tried play some jewel thief tho

>have this one vague memory of getting a pc with family
>stopped in petrol station at some point and then pc world to get some games
>had a Thomas the tank engine game, bomberman and some other stuff
>whole shop felt super 80s-90s for some reason
>everything was dull grey and felt like being in a 90s movie in nyc

shits a pretty nice memory

>Be mid-90s
>Family has a computer of some kind that was windows
>Dad gets a couple of Wings documentary CD Roms that also had a short flight simulator section in them
>Tfw trying to and succeeding in downing a Bf-109 in a Battle of Britain scenario
>Tfw shooting down fellow bombers on a bomber scenario
>Tfw dad thought the computer was fucked because the screen was black from a pilot black out during a Vietnam scenario
>Tfw it was safe to turn the computer off

Good times

>>61014520
AIM chats were great. msn groups were great too. hell, even imdb forums were nice.

of course all that shit had to get shut down to make way for shitbook.

>2005
>Used to go into random AOL chatrooms and spam Michael Jackson jokes until everyone left
>Did the same in this one room with two people talking
>One of them before they left says "Come on lets leave him in this room, all alone"

Over 10 years later and I'm a social recluse loner. Lifes little ironies.

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>>61010968
>>talk on AIM
>>download Prodigy songs and bigtithotblondegetsfuckedby3guyscumfacialanalswallow.mov
>mfw bill clinton remix

>>61016810
>msn
normalfags loved that thing, why did MS end it?