confidunce: canmom: privateai: thatferrybroad: texelations: texelations: I’ve been on the inte
confidunce:canmom:privateai:thatferrybroad:texelations:texelations:I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter packReblog this if you are an old fogey onlineReblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapperThings this starter pack simply does not convey:The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modemThe computer hanging up on the internet when someone calledHow damn long everything took to loadHaving multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browserIRC bots The frantic search for the midi player when a webpage started playing musicPutting videos on to download overnightjpg compression on photos taken with the webcamThis: I first learned html on netscapeI made so many geocities and tripod sites on Netscape.A lot of this is just before my time, but it does amuse me that we’ve gone from ‘the frantic search for the [plugin] midi player on a geocities site’ with ‘the frantic search for the web-native HTML5/Javascript Ogg/MP3/AAC player on a Tumblr site’…being online since 1998, to me, makes you ALL whippersnappers.YOU ARE ALL UNWORTHY OF THE TERM FOGEYBE ASHAMED BE VERY ASHAMEDI’ll be in my GRAVE long before you become a FUCKING FOGEYI am decrepit and a pissant please mock meTragically, this is what my youth looked like. I lived through this. I am old. -- source link
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