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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember my friend showing a BBS that his uncle had got him set up on and being blown away. Also, I guess my parents were impressed by Spokesdude Bronson Pinchot (The Bronster), because they got us a US Videotel console for almost a year.

[–] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He'll always be Balki Bartokomous to me.

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

As a kid, all of us nerds got our own computers eventually after much begging. (Commodore 64s and such.)

And occasionally, we had the magical moments when we got to visit the occasional person who had a big computer. (PC clones)

No information superhighways yet!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 3 months ago

"Information superhighway" 🤣

More like flash games and Runescape private servers.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The information superhighway? You mean the cassette tape?

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[–] psyc@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think this was probably still a common thing for people in their 30s now, it wasn't that long ago

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My best friend got cable internet around the same time we had just gotten dial-up at home, you're darn right I was gonna go over there so we could experience the Information Superhighway(r) together

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

I remember my, well, the house's first computer, a Windows 95 machine (no idea about the actual specs). Shit was magical to my then 5 year old eyes. The internet only came some 3 years later and time online was heavily regulated because of the phone bill, also because someone might be waiting for an important call or whatever, which was usually my older brother waiting for a friend or girl to call him.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I remember my friends would be cramming around our buddy's computer watching him play Sim Ant. Ran on DOS I think.

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[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I'm a 2000s child and did this

[–] vegafjord@discuss.online 6 points 3 months ago

I'm certainly normally aged.

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I built my first website without access to internet. Just locally for me and my friends.

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