Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.

Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.

People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.

The internet used to be magnificent.

I remember when my mum used to say "Don't bother your dad, he's on the internet" like it was this big important thing. Not "He's checking his email", or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.

I remember when I was 10 going to radio shack and watching a guy who worked there type in programs in basic on a ts-80 computer. Thought it was cool. There was no Internet then.

Back when my friend got AOL for the first time, I came over and we sent an e-mail to the While House urging Bill Clinton to protect the environment.

I'm not insecure about my age, though. On the contrary, people younger than me should be insecure about theirs. No one born in the 21st century can ever really reach adulthood, IMO.

I miss the old internet so much.

I remember being 10 and we'd head over to the one kid who had a computer's house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we'd manage to find Newgrounds. We'd spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.

Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.

I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.

I’m only 35 and we did this as kids.

We used to go to arcades even when we had no money just to watch other people play over their shoulders.

It was like Twitch, but sweaty and with more mullets.

Aight im in my 20s and even I did this growing up, is that person just a fucking teenager or something?

ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.

Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.

Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we'd ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn't be?

I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends' houses

I was following it just fine until the "experience the information superhighway" part.

My mate's ZX Spectrums had no "information superhighway" connection.

Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.

I remember looking for porn for the first time at a buddies house and we couldn't even figure it out. It never dawned on us to type "porn" into the search engine. Just two 13 year olds going "type in girls, damn, ok, try babes. Nothing? What about chicks?"

I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.

When I was ten I'd go over to my friend's place to watch The Banana Splits or go jump my BMX off dirt ramps, or steal slightly out of date chocolate milk from the back of the local milk factory. I was in my mid-twenties and second marriage before the internet came around. Now that's old.

In the early '80s we used to hang out at my one friend's house and play games on his TRS-80 which we affectionately called the "Trash 80". We were all in high school except Monty who was 23 and enormously obese. Monty had a real job as a programmer somewhere and one afternoon he sat down at the Trash 80 and wrote a very plausible hi-res version of Space Invaders from scratch in about half an hour. At the time it meant nothing to me, but now after a 30 year career as a programmer myself I understand just how impressive that actually was.

Monty wired up his car's alternator to the ignition switch and he would leave his keys in the switch, hoping that somebody would attempt to steal his car and die. Not knowing about this, one of our friends ran out to his car after a D&D session, started it up and drove around the parking lot. Monty was so disappointed that nothing happened. I kinda miss the '80s.

Ughhhh my friends would come over to watch me play club penguin. Then we would walk to their house and watch them play club penguin. When we older we called each other while playing together. Also Halo CE was awesome in 4v4 multiplayer spit on a 1080 TV, 4 IRL people playing against 4 randos. One time I was hasty and picked "Hang em High" when it was my friends choice, I then asked "wanna play Hang em High?" It felt the natural pick lol

I can remember when texting came out. Y'all remember how the phone companies charged per minute and per text back in the day ?

Remember when you were ten and went to a friend’s place who had a Commodore 64 and they just got a new game on a floppy from his uncle’s friend. And the game was just an animation of a pixelated naked cartoon lady who took a piss on to the ground. And you’d laugh your ass off for the rest of the day. Remember? No?

Silly story, my first gf would do this with her best friend all the time. Insisted I came with but between my parents and school it took a bit, which was fine by me because I had internet at home and a little laptop as opposes to a clunky desktop. Finally did join them, turns out they went over to her bestie's and watched porn together. Teen me kicked himself for not getting in on that sooner, adult me woners if that was a red flag.

Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.

I remember typing in code from a gaming magazine because there was no storage. You turn off your computer and it's gone.

Worst part was when your triple checked everything and it still wouldn't run only to get the corrections in the magazine next month.

I’m in my 30s myself. People in their 30s are not old God damnit.

Now, where the fuck are my gout pills.

This was a time before youtube. 

This is just the Millennial version of reaction video Tiktoks.

Yahoo used to have a music video section. The videos would load fine on a cable connection but 56K took forever at potato quality. Had to go to a friend's house with better internet to watch any videos. Load up a video, leave home hoping the internet doesn't disconnect, go to a friend's house to watch a few, and then head back home to see if the video mostly loaded before timing out. The parents at home were okay with leaving the internet running because it stopped telemarketer calls which were rampant at the time.

Cat used to sleep on top of the CRT and got a rude awakening after we upgraded the monitor. Hopped right over the LCD. Computers used to be useful in ways that have been engineered out.

I remember installing programs with several consecutive floppy disks on my dad's computer

I remember a bunch of us going over to our neighbor's house to watch him play Sim ant.

Waiting for dial up to kick in was better with company

I'm so decrepit I can remember a time when "computer" was a term that described a device you could control the software of, kiddo.

Friend's family had WebTV before my family even had dial-up. My mom was too worried about the internet having porn and I was already dreaming of getting porn on the TV. Eventually she consented to internet on the living room PC so she could monitor it and that dumb bitch didn't notice the lan cable we routed up the stairs. Every teenager was a network admin in those days. I learned to encrypt hard drives as soon as PC's were powerful enough to handle the performance hit of encryption.

I got my PC-less friend into UO, CS, EQ, WoW and a few other abbreviations.

Thanks Lemmy. I am feeling normal now.

When I was 10, there was no information superhighway. HTTP wasn't even around yet.

I was watching an old episode of Columbo and realized how old it was when a lady used a teletype to retrieve information on a employee. I was born in the 80ies and always had old computers in the 90ies so I learned to use BASIC and DOS, but anything that doesn't have a screen seems like it's from centuries ago to me.

My first computer (not counting my sisters' aging ZX Spectrum+) was something called a Nikita PC Vivaz/PC Kid. It was essentially a famiclone with keyboard and mouse, in the shape of a tower PC.

It had quite a few programs like a word processor, spreadsheets, phone book, notes, a drawing application, some BASIC variant, and various games. It was obviously quite limited in what you could do with a 4KB of battery-backed RAM "disk" shared by all applications. It also had a slot for Famicom cartridges to play regular FC/NES titles with gamepads.

I remember my friends telling me it "wasn't a computer" because it had no monitor (the display was a regular TV), and it didn't "have Windows".

This was in 1998, and I still cringe to this day.

(My first x86 machine was a 200MHz Pentium MMX tower with IIRC 16MB of RAM and 1GB disk, in 2004)

Edit: also, I didn't experience the information superhighway until IIRC 2005, in the Uni's library

YouTube poop videos just hit better with friends at 10yo.

Im that in between generation that grew up in the 80s and early 90s so I feel like captain America after being defrosted sometimes

When I was 10 I'd go over to my friend's house to play Alley Cat and Shinobi. His dad had an IBM PC. Otherwise we played on my Commodore VIC-20, or went to play the arcade games at the local corner store.

I spend the first 8 years of my life in China, we just had TV (it's like cable with a box thingy I think) that we had to pay for, and like we didn't have any other entertainment other than like childrens books or boardgames/cardgames that I'd only have my older brother to play with. Didn't even have friends I don't remember having any friends.

Then once we immigrated to the US. We didn't get internet at first, but we got library cards in the NYC Brooklyn public library, and like I got access to the library computers with internet and that's the first time I've really had access to the internet (around 2010), ans I had zero clue how to use it lol. I just want to play games at that time, not clue how to go on those websites...

And omg my cousins who went to the library with us (so I think my aunt, aka: those cousin's mother, was trying to show us around of "how stuff works" in the country) just refused to help me. They see me and like: "eww this peasant kid fresh off the boat doesn't even know how to use a computer", I felt so sad... I mean you had to wait in line using your library card to register at the kiosk thing, and you only get 30 minutes once its your turn, so I kinda just spend like... 15 minutes not know how to find games to play... then finally my aunt sort of forced my cousin to help me...

Fucking Tiffiany, what a bitch...

I feel like American-born kids just have this weird arrogance, and doesn't even treat people of their own ethnicity nicely, not even a relative.

But anyways... I basically jumped from zero internet to 2010s internet, no clue wtf is "golden age of internet" y'all talk about.

Then we got like a very cheap laptop that's shared between my older brother and me, but he took the admin account and only gave me a standard account, so I couldn't even install anything... :(

I remember we used to go to a nearby McDonalds for free wifi lmfao

Then we finally got internet... it was a company called "Optimum" and its like $50 a month, but we got the promotional first 2 years at $30 a month or something, and idk what the speed even was, probably very slow.

But my patents really only let me use the computer for like... 30 minutes a day... 😭

Its like DRUGS, why did you do that to me mama?

Okay she didn't want me to get addicted to this "drug" known as the internet. Didn't want us to "走火入魔" or whatever that means.

Sometimes she just take the modem when its the weekends and she left home for something so we can't play all day... :(

Sometimes take the laptop charging cable too :(

I was so sad... :(

And like then as we got older, mom would unplug the modem when we go to sleep so we can't use the internet at night... I mean yea I get it from a parentinv PoV lol, but like when i was that kid, I felt so sad :(

Edit: Also didn't get a smartphone (or any phone at all) till like 2015/2016...

Mad that this was still happening only ~25 years ago

Then at ~15 years ago we suddenly all start getting smartphones

Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭

Neopeys and taking turns playing RuneScape.