The internet as it was in 1996

DrFukasaka

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In the old days porn was not free so you had to steal that shit! Kaaza, emule limewire.
 
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Mist

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Oh yeah, I did play a couple MUDs at one point before UO. I first taught myself how to write code that listens for TCP connections on a network socket from reading the CircleMUD source code.
 
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Intrinsic

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Wired had a ton of dial up porn BBS ads on the last couple of pages back in the day. Still remember mailing one a membership request + $$$ when I was like 13. Got the account created and was d/l low res boobs at like 9600 baud. Of course they were all long distance so my parents were pissed when their phone bill came back.

Also made the rookie mistake of stealing a bunch of CC#s with AOHell and leaving a print out on the printer. Tried to explain that one away. Magicing up accounts was sorta fun back then. Either through easily beatable AOL code or people just being too new to realize that if random AOLAdminxX asked for your info it -probably- wasn’t legit.

We had Prodigy and used to play that trivia game Guts (?) I think it was, as a family. Wish I could remember the old BBS games though. It was so much alcohol years in the past it’s be hard to remember much of what went on.

Using ProComm to make custom modem init strings to do multiplayer Doom. Shit that was great.
 

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In the old days porn was not free so you had to steal that shit! Kaaza, emule limewire.
stone age internet porn was ascii
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then cycling,
 
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Tauntworth

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Every time I read this thread name, I hear it in Morpheus' voice when he's introducing Neo to the Desert of the Real. "The world as it was at the end of the 21st Century..."

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ohkcrlho

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Got internet in 96, 14k modem lol Was fucking expensive using during daytime.
One day i played C&C Red Alert with a friend online in the afternoon. Of course may dad almost killed when at the end of the month ,the bill was almost 400€

You only could see porn pics. Jerk off to videos you would take minutes to cum or you would cum when the image was freezed lol

Trying to play Rainbow Six (yeah the first from the series) with a 56k modem. The struggle was real, lag was my loyal friend and being kicked off was a certainty.
Only when the lobby leader used a T1 connection (mostly used by americans in universities ), it would compensate my poor connection and I wouldn't get the boot.
 
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Hoss

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I remember the sysadmin at college giving me a copy of the internet bible. He said this was everything I'd ever need to know about the internet. Now, I admit I'm a slow reader, but it was dated before I was halfway though. If it was everything I'd ever need to know about the internet, it should have at least been relevant for a year. The college bought thousands of those books. I think they were going to initially sell them for $5 each. Then they started giving them away until they couldn't anymore in good conscience. I always thought they should start a "history of the Internet" course and use them as textbooks. BOOM $100 a piece.
 
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Siliconemelons

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I think they were going to initially sell them for $5 each. Then they started giving them away until they couldn't anymore in good conscience. I always thought they should start a "history of the Internet" course and use them as textbooks. BOOM $100 a piece.

you have a bright future in academia
 
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Flash was a nightmare from the day it got released. Actionscript was so shitty to develop in.

There were some really nice websites utilising it from a design perspective when it first arrived. It was fucking mindblowing to see how it changed the landscape for a time.

I did alot of flash design/development stuff from 2000-2004 or so, it was pretty much all i did for 2-3 years straight and I hated every fucking minute of it.
 
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a c i d.f l y

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Flash was a nightmare from the day it got released. Actionscript was so shitty to develop in.

There were some really nice websites utilising from a design perspective when it first arrived. It was fucking mindblowing to see how it changed the landscape for a time.

I did alot of flash design/development stuff from 2000-2004 or so, it was pretty much all i did for 2-3 years straight and I hated every fucking minute of it.
Ugh, thanks for reminding me of those nightmares.