I just dug this up for another post: The Geek Code.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Green N logo. Windows 98. Teal solid wallpaper. Waiting for gifs to load and files to download on a 56k. BEEP BOOP. The burning smell of a CRT.
Bonus: emulating Metal Slug 5 on emulator
being on prodigy chat and seeing people posting "LOL" and i was like, what is that
I fondly remember spending hours and hours in the T-Online BTX, which looked something like this: https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/btx-jubilaeum-so-sah-der-internet-vorlaeufer-aus-fotostrecke-34503.html
There was this chat "village" themed based around Asterix & Obelix. I think it was the first chat I ever used, so it was magical. My older sister would mostly chat, while I watched. I still remember her handle from back then: Gutemine.
We later found out the chat cost 5ct/min (or 5 Pfennig per minute?)
Configuring my UUCP connection to provide my BBS users with « electronic mail ».
Going to an internet café, filling a CD-R to the brim with whatever I could fetch in 1 hour, and enjoying whatever I brought on my very offline home computer for the next week
friv.com
The dancing Spider-Man gif.