I used to play outside, do homework, watch tv, and play on my Sega Genesis.
Oooh, the good ol' days. I wish I still had that Genesis.
Oooh, the good ol' days. I wish I still had that Genesis.
What did you do...BEFORE the internet?
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I think I was around maybe...11 or 12 when I started using the internets. I used it mostly for flash games back then. Before I used it I just played with toys, legos etc. I played games but not nearly as much as I do now. I mostly watched my brother or father play them. Also went outside more, thoughs were the days...
Uh... I think I was writing very poorly written original stories and staying up watching late night Showtime movies.
Or something.
Or something.
I despise the internet for tempting me. I always look back, and see how I could have been if it didn't exist. No matter which angle I see it from, the alternate universe of the non-existant world wide web seems a utopian dream. It is too late now, and no matter how much I hate this temptation, I know I can at least let this curse work for me.
Yeah Thing would be different NOW for me If I didnt have it but when your a kid theres not such a huge differenceSuperveloce6 said:
I remember my N64 I also remember seeing Grand theft auto on the xbox and thinking those graphics were the most amzing and realistic ever
then a while ago I stole borrowed a ps2 from my ex and got san andreas for it....maaan those graphics looked dated (then again I had just experience the awsomness of Bioshock for the first time...my first current gen game, now Im a graphics whore)
I did a lot of drawing. I used to draw comics all the time. Looking back, they pretty much all suck, but I think if the Internet hadn't melted my brain, I would have gotten better. I had my own computer in my room at one point, but I don't honestly remember what I used it for. There were maybe three games I owned in the whole world that would play on it.
And you kids who grew up on Nintendo 64s think they were ghetto... we had a Commodore 64. In the year 2000. Yeah. We were cheapskates, and shopped at a lot of rummage sales. Ah, the good old days of waiting five minutes for the disk drive to load the game (and occasionally having to take it down to the basement to realign the head because of a copy protection scheme that made SecuROM look like a CD key).
I kinda wish I had been around for the days of the Internet's predecessor, where your modem was literally a digital telegraph that would dial in to different services depending on whether you wanted to check the stock ticker from Compuserve, chat on a BBS, or play online chess. I actually still have the disk somewhere, though we never found a modem. I wonder if somewhere out there are people who still communicate through that system, like a nerdier version of ham radio operators.
...ho boy I feel old.
And you kids who grew up on Nintendo 64s think they were ghetto... we had a Commodore 64. In the year 2000. Yeah. We were cheapskates, and shopped at a lot of rummage sales. Ah, the good old days of waiting five minutes for the disk drive to load the game (and occasionally having to take it down to the basement to realign the head because of a copy protection scheme that made SecuROM look like a CD key).
I kinda wish I had been around for the days of the Internet's predecessor, where your modem was literally a digital telegraph that would dial in to different services depending on whether you wanted to check the stock ticker from Compuserve, chat on a BBS, or play online chess. I actually still have the disk somewhere, though we never found a modem. I wonder if somewhere out there are people who still communicate through that system, like a nerdier version of ham radio operators.
And now that we have the Internet, you can play in the MUD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD]! *ba-dum-PSSS*KungFuCthulhu said:
...ho boy I feel old.
I was in a seven month long meditation, I was not only about to achieve not only Nirvana, but also a complete understanding of everything. Not only that, I was about to achieve a higher intelligence and greater being. Than my buddy came along and told me about the Internet and I lost he chance. Thanks Internet.
I copied that floppy.
It's how I first got into computer gaming.
The only way I could have gotten into it, seeing as I didn't get any allowance and we didn't have internet.
Otherwise, I just replayed super mario on the NES for the nth time.
Super Mario and Bigfoot, the only two games I ever got from my parents.
Everything gaming-related I've ever owned since then, I've bought myself.
While my sisters got a PSX, a new TV, an xbox, and a number of games for each console.
Why do girls always get more stuff?
It's not fair.
On top of that, my mom threw away my NES because it was old and thought it was junk.
I still haven't forgiven her for that.
Anyways, when I finally got internet, it was pay per minute 56k dial-up.
By that point, I had started getting allowance, but it all went to paying for the internet.
I think I got like 10 hours per week, tops.
Man, thinking back, it really makes it feel nice to have unlimited 100/100Mbit.
It's how I first got into computer gaming.
The only way I could have gotten into it, seeing as I didn't get any allowance and we didn't have internet.
Otherwise, I just replayed super mario on the NES for the nth time.
Super Mario and Bigfoot, the only two games I ever got from my parents.
Everything gaming-related I've ever owned since then, I've bought myself.
While my sisters got a PSX, a new TV, an xbox, and a number of games for each console.
Why do girls always get more stuff?
It's not fair.
On top of that, my mom threw away my NES because it was old and thought it was junk.
I still haven't forgiven her for that.
Anyways, when I finally got internet, it was pay per minute 56k dial-up.
By that point, I had started getting allowance, but it all went to paying for the internet.
I think I got like 10 hours per week, tops.
Man, thinking back, it really makes it feel nice to have unlimited 100/100Mbit.
SRB2, splitscreen games, hotseat games, going to my friend's place, biking, etc.
Back when I wasn't allowed on the computer for more than 100 minutes a day. Or something like that.
Back when I wasn't allowed on the computer for more than 100 minutes a day. Or something like that.
Born in '90; I feel older than I should when I think about those relatively few years before my unsupervised experiences with dial-up internet back in '97. Guess everyone who was around for the 90's is feeling nostalgic, eh?
For me, it was LEGOs mostly: I swear, playing with them makes you smarter as a kid.
Other than that, mixing household cleaners and detergents to make highly-toxic insecticides, drawing shit like "futuristic" machines a la 'mechwarrior', and TV - thinking back, I'm amazed what kid's shows in the late 80's- late 90's could get away with in comparison to all the highly-sterilized and even more PC stuff they have now.
Good times, but the internet really has been an awesome medium in it's short timespan of popularity.
*Edit: Oh, and how could I forget the Gameboy Color? It's amazing to think of how far pocket gaming has advanced too, back then having color was considered a pricing point instead of it just being for granted as it is today.
For me, it was LEGOs mostly: I swear, playing with them makes you smarter as a kid.
Other than that, mixing household cleaners and detergents to make highly-toxic insecticides, drawing shit like "futuristic" machines a la 'mechwarrior', and TV - thinking back, I'm amazed what kid's shows in the late 80's- late 90's could get away with in comparison to all the highly-sterilized and even more PC stuff they have now.
Good times, but the internet really has been an awesome medium in it's short timespan of popularity.
*Edit: Oh, and how could I forget the Gameboy Color? It's amazing to think of how far pocket gaming has advanced too, back then having color was considered a pricing point instead of it just being for granted as it is today.
Very silimar to what you did OP. In my case though I read less books and explored outside. When I was at that age I grow up non working farms. I would explore it. I moved around enough so I never fully explored/ got bored of the area I was in. I only moved to the city in late 2001/ early 2002. As we planned to stop moving around we thought it would be worth the money to get internet installed. It been a major part in my life from then.
I did have crappy internet in the one house that was in a town. It was crappy and I never was allowed to use it much. So I stayed with my nintendo.
I did have crappy internet in the one house that was in a town. It was crappy and I never was allowed to use it much. So I stayed with my nintendo.