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So im pretty impressed but Im pretty sure that one discover card dial up was around in 1995 if not aol. I actually only really started encountering the internet in 1993 but I was in college in a college pretty heavily into that type of stuff. I feel like her 15 year old self is drawn like a grade schooler and I know with my own wife we have this disconect where if I talk about things from being a kid I mostly mean grade school and maybe junior high were as she groups everything high school and before as kid. Maybe even post high school. On the other hand when my father passed away I saw pictures of myself from high school and was sorta blown away. I looked like that at that age??!!! There were skinnier kids than me in high school but they numbered in the like the single digits and we had a large high school. I know I have been called bean pole at that time, not super often, but it happened. Still I was like, oh man, I was a bean pole.

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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In case there are any who dont know A/S/L is Age/Sex/Location

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

14/F/FBI Headquarters

She was hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I put on my robe and wizard hat

[–] yggstyle 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bloodninja for the uninitiated. When trolling was an artform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

omg the meaning of trolling just completely got lost. I mean I hated it but I worked at a university and a student was telling me trolling was doing anything sorta annoying to a person like (he demonstrated pushing my shoulder while walking) so. And im like no, it is when you make comments here and there that sends a groups conversations into argument and chaos. putin may be the ultimate troll. Even wikipedia does not quite have it right as it says inflammatory comments but can even be just encouraging someone in the group with views that cause the argument or leading a conversation toward it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

just to be clear though. he used to be a man.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The ancient call of the wild

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think in 1995 my dad had pay by the minute internet access and I wasn't allowed to use it (and didn't really know what it was anyway). Somewhere around 1996/7 he got a dedicated ISDN line with unlimited internet and I stayed up all night talking to strangers in chat rooms or playing video games. Good times!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

this actually is sorta a wierd thing with me. when the internet was becoming more mainstream I was in a graduate program and then starting out in making something of my degree so I sorta missed the changeover from command line to www (I did not really get what my cs friend was doing in college). So like in 97 I was like. WTF?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

i didnt even know people had internet back then.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I kid you not there were folks flunking out of college due to irc addiction. Same would happen with the avatar games for the folks who used the novanet/plato system (old internet and usually you had to take a class that still used it to realize it existed at the time)

[–] uservoid1 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

College had free internet with 24/7 open terminals room all running IRC, some playing MUD and few with some warez FTP downloads. There were no ISP for the home market yet, only dial up BBS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yup and the 24/7 were in the same building. the basement of every dorm. amazing how many folks were there at 3am on any particular day. it was like being at a con.

[–] draneceusrex 4 points 2 days ago

Sigh, was so fun taking over a lab and playing a MUDD together with like 10-15 people. Some of my favorite times in college.

[–] uservoid1 2 points 2 days ago

Once in a while we had IRC meetings IRL with people from colleges all around the country. Age of the naive internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Usenet, email, and some other internet services have been around since the 70s/80s. Nowadays the internet is often taken to be synonymous with the world wide web, but there's plenty of stuff that was available much earlier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

oh the early nineties were not the world wide web. It existed but not commonaly. I had a cs friend trying to do some html and I did not even realize what he was doing until years later.

[–] AlphaOmega 3 points 2 days ago

Before the internet you could dial up public boards and connect to a server. Like in '88 I was online.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Back in my day we both uploaded and downloaded, using bare HyperTerminal*, over audio “snow”. And we liked it that way!

*Or Netscape navigator….or iRC