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The "pre-internet" times (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Boomers, Gen Xers and elder millennials are now the last people who remember what it was like to use a pay phone, a paper map, a typewriter, etc

idk elder millennials were children pre-internet, their experience isn't going to be the same as gen x or boomers who were adults by the time the internet became so ubiquitous. By the year 2000 there was ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger and texting and Unreal Tournament with online matchmaking. So maybe you werent playing Roblox on your iPad while waiting for your Pizza Hut but you could go home and frag some noobs after eating garlic sticks till you puke in the non-smoking section.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I’ve always argued that it also depended on your economic upbringing. I’m right on the cusp of millennial, but my parents couldn’t afford internet until my junior year of high school. Yeah, the internet existed but it might as well not have, outside of someone bringing halo to school on a usb I missed most of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

you could, but home internet rates were still pretty low well into the 2000s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mostly we were LAN cafeing in 2000, broadband wasnt good enough or common enough yet.

$10 overnight LANs were the best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

When I was in high school, one of my friend's family owned a little computer repair shop. We used to take it over on weekends, cannibalize all the display computers for the best parts, and have all night LAN parties. It was pretty rad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

but you could go home and frag some noobs

A wide smile.