WTF did y'all do? Don't get me wrong, I experienced life before the internet practically became a utility, but it just seems weird living in a world where the internet wasn't a major tool you used every single day.
AIM shutting down in December is messing with me. I haven’t used it on over a decade, but getting on AIM & MSN Messenger was my life as a yound lad from like 2000-2004.
I can barely remember life before the internet and cell phones tbh. I do remember my parents getting the big ass Mapsco every year. Crazy how ancient that has become in less than 20 years.
Watched porn on VHS.
It was the worst of times.
I remember stealing my dads old soft core/cinemax style tapes
Yeah, I'm a little younger so I was more into yahoo messenger/chat at that time. I actually met a long term girlfriend on there
Haha, I remember talking back and forth with Mav fans on AOL chat back in 2003.
I remember setting up dates at the old ty mall in Pharr the one that had/has the dollar movies and never showing up. I wonder if any of those chicks ever showed up.
Before internet there was nintendo, sega, soccer l, basketball and joning you mama jokes for hours
Oh and smoking up
Oh and hanging out in the mall and answering your pages using pay phones
Read the Robert E. Howard's Conan saga, all 12 books.
Read ERB John Carter on Mars series, 11 books.
Taped over 5000 mixed tapes.
Read most of the westerns by Max Brand, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, Luke Short.
Have a filing system for every school with two...
sub10.20 100m., 21.00 200m, 47.00m, 14.00 110hh, and 25 and over in the long jump Have 70 schools in the system and constantly upgrading.
Have a notebook keeping track of all NFLers who while in school...
sub 10.50
sub 21.00
sub 48.00
sub 14.00
25 and over
There is no pro footballer with a track history I'm not aware of.
Read most of....
John Steinbeck
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P.Lovecraft
H.G.Wells
Lin Carter's..Thongor
Michael Moor 's....Elric
Robert E. Howards....Solomon Kane, El Borak, Black Vulmea, King Kull, Brak Mak Mon.
Listened to everything by.....
The Beatles
Robert Johnson
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Jimmie Rogers
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
The Mississippi Sheiks
Bessie Smith
Muddy Waters
Merle Haggard
Bob Marley
ZZ Top
Howlin' Wolf
Janis Joplin
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Woody Guthrie
Lead Belly
Led Zeppelin
CCR
Neil Young
Cannon Jug Stompers
Ma Rainey
etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
The thing about the internet is a place to unleash all that. There are places where posters can talk King Solomon Hill, Stone Johnson, Preacher Pilot, Hiawatha Francisco.
Here it's just silly bull mostly, I get the mentality here and have fun with it.
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I remember watching pork and wrestling PPVs on the fuzzy, staticky channels.
I remember how much faster Roadrunner cable internet was when it first came out, blazing fast.
I remember when a 500 mhz machine was a fire breather.
I remember when Called ID was high tech.
My first PC was a 20mhz 386SX from Austin computers. Didn't even have a math coprocessor. Had 2 meg of memory in 8 sticks and a 40meg HDD. I couldn't load Windows so i ran Digital Research DOS (DR DOS) that took 8 floppy disks to load. There was only news groups and some BBS activity similar to these forums. You'd almost need to know the string to type in to get the modem to work before V.90 took over. 300 baud. There was no world wide web, no GUI that I was aware of. AOL was the going thing, but too expensive. Netscape was up and coming, and soon the concept of "if you have a business you need a .com address" was being laughed at by people who fell behind the curve. I registered a few names and sold them later (I would make a fortune with them today) to folks who started businesses and needed those names.
To play a game you had to get into the config.sys file and set your memory up to allow sound to work. Oddly the same soundblaster then seems to be around now.
But most of the time I was on a lake fishing in a tournament somewhere or in a treestand with a bow.
That's ed up. Jacking off over something your dad just hit earlier.
Kids played outside. People had to look up in books at these places called libraries before there was Wikipedia. Boys had to jerk off to their dad's Playboy, or (gasp) use their imagination. And before cell phones... teenagers had some measure of autonomy without their parents GPSing their location and calling them every ten minutes. People actually had to meet in person and speak without the use of text or social media to get to know one another.
I remember setting up dates at the old ty mall in Pharr the one that had/has the dollar movies and never showing up. I wonder if any of those chicks ever showed up.
That mall was the back in the day. If you wanted to live the ghetto aspect for a few hrs you'd go there. Can't believe its not there anymore...so much has changed especially in that little area of Pharr.
Dial up porn was the worst. Wait half an hour for a picture. Outside heaps more.
You could beat your wife and all it cost you was a pair of sunglasses.
People were starting to get the Nokia b&w cell phones with snake when I was in high school....MSN messenger was big....the upgrade from 9.6K to 56K to 1.5 Mbps cable modem was revolutionary....Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
Went to the mall for $2 Movie Tuesdays. Played at the park every weekend with the neighborhood kids. Was this a dream tbh?
I remember driving places (particularly out of town) and having to stop in convenience stores to ask for directions or to look at a local map.
Also ed kids in Olangapo.
Wait are you DACA?I remember setting up dates at the old ty mall in Pharr the one that had/has the dollar movies and never showing up. I wonder if any of those chicks ever showed up.
All day everyday
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All day everyday
This ing guy gets it. 4 player split screen. The TV we played on was already small as ....and you only got 1/4 of the screen. It didn't matter. We would play for hours and hours and hours.
Oddjob FTW.
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