Internet Nostalgia!

[Lexi Darling]

I grew up using Gamefaqs, so of course I have a longstanding appreciation for ASCII art.

And that's so cool, ISB. My dad got into computers in the early 80s and was a frequent poster on Usenet newsgroups, which I guess aren't exactly the same as BBS but probably a similar internet precursor.

I actually went googling and found my childhood computer, a Compaq Presario that ran Windows 3.1. Man what a rush of memories.

I believe we got this in the 1993 holiday season. I shared this baby with my family (mostly my dad), but a couple years later we got a better HP desktop that became the family's main computer and the Compaq (which as a kid I pronounced "Compa-Q" like the letter Q, haha) was all mine.

[Shhon]

How bout some Youtube nostalgia?

that numa numa song goes hard

[Lexi Darling]

Numa Numa technically predates Youtube. But yeah it's a classic.

I remember when that Rihanna song came out that sampled it, when I heard that on the radio my jaw hit the floor.

[Jwb]

haha that's pretty much what I did also.

We had a computer in the 90s but it was black and white and very shit. Didn't have the Internet until the 00s.

@Mrs. Waffles I never went on Rotten but there was a shock site called Steak and Cheese and I imagine it was pretty similar.

bruh when i was like 11 my stepdad literally brought home a "computer" he got at a yard sale or something which was just basically an old crt monitor with a blue screen that you could type text on. And i used it to try practicing typing. Back then you seemed sophisticated if you could type with 2 hands.

I didn't find out what a real computer was like till i was like 13 and met a friend who had one.  We spent hours on there in AIM chats and on porn sites lol.  It was literally like discovering the holy grail, i used to jerk off to a half torn page from a porn mag i found walking home from school in 6th grade.  The difference between this vs watching actual hardcore porn online felt like a miracle of modern technology.

[jimmy jazz]

@Jwb done the porn mag thing before, finding them discarded and taking them home 😂

Now that I'm older I don't get why you'd discord then like that. You'd find them in alleyways and in bushes. Just put them in the bin? Well not now obviously we have the Internet.

When I was first able to speak to people from around the world I was so fascinated. One of the first people I spoke to was an American girl and I remember asking really trivial shit like what she had for breakfast and what their bacon was like.