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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'll do you one better...we'd use the internet together. Probably the inspiration for that well-known NCIS hacker-fight scene, except one of us would be on the mouse and the other on the keyboard.

I hope I just unlocked a core memory for a few more lemmings.

[–] JPSound 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shit, I remember when our public library got some fancy new computers with an internet connection which was super high tech at the time. Two of my buddies and I rode our bikes down there and we couldn't believe how cool this new thing called a "chatroom" was. Like... there were other people on there just talking to each other, long distance, mind you, and FOR FREE?!?!?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But only on weekends when dialing in was cheaper.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

10? I guess if "Compuserve over slow dial-up" counts as "the information superhighway", then sure. Web browsers almost certainly weren't a thing yet. Hypertext had more-or-less just been invented.

[–] roguetrick 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure it's a normal distribution with a pretty amazing skew for late 30s to mid 40s and a high peak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Man I'm early 30's and this tracks

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