That Dialup sound.
Newsgroups.
The kick I got out of posting up my own crappy page with lots of annoying images and gifs (Geocities ftw!)
Idk, at the time I would have bought this if possible: https://youtu.be/UWzHkeBObw0
Lol, watched a lot of Simpsons but had never seen that!
All the awesome flash games. Wasn’t super early but there are 3 games I loved but don’t remember the names of them…
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build a rocket bit by bit and try and fly it higher each time as your fuel runs down. Eventually you get into space. 2D.
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you are a penguin, it’s a ski slope distance game. Get power ups and go further each time. I think you have a hang glider thing. 2D.
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A paper plane distance thing by Microsoft Xbox where you throw it through a window and there’s sounds of kids playing. 2D.
Also Monkey kick-off. Another fave.
the second one is learn to fly
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I started using the internet later than some, but finding YTPs and fan-made video game blooper videos on early YouTube. I though they were the funniest things in the world, still do to some extent looking back on how weird and experimental they could be. I’m still recovering from having my sense of humour melted at a young age lol
Posting to a Usenet newsgroup to inquire about a research paper I was interested in, and having the author snail mail me a printed copy of the paper. The power of community blew my mind.
AIM! My entire junior high would be up all night chatting away. I figured out my mom’s password on her power Mac, and hid out in her office lol. It was so fun and novel at the time.
BonziBuddy destroying the family computer.
How early is early / does early have to be?
My gaming clan.
If it has to be before that, I guess the multiplayer “text” browser games?
Collecting AOL CDs to get free minutes. Downloading risque photos on 56k and having your mom pick up the phone and kill your download halfway through. Fun times.
Early chat rooms were really fun, everything was fresh and people were excited with all of the potential and there was no overwhelming corporate bullshit.
How everyone who knew how to had their own personal homepage.
I love https://www.cameronsworld.net/. I wish websites were still made like this.
What am I looking at here lmfao
Geocities circa 1998
cameronsworld.net. Pay attention.
Thank you for that!!! What a delight. “Hello Ladies” is my favourite bit. 😍👹😍
My favorite one was the calculator that is fully functional, but also resets to boobs after a few seconds
I still have that!
Miss my geocities page
AOL keyword NICK
Everyone was nice to each other and followed unwritten rules in communication. :)
Super curious how old you are, we got aol in about 1991 and chat rooms were… Not like that lol
a/s/l?
Age, sex, location
No, no. The correct response is always 19/f/cali.
This is why no-one ever wanted to chat with me!
Well I’m not an American so I have not used AOL-services.
The nature of chat rooms is the same everywhere, that’s why I’m curious how old you are. If you were on the internet in the 80s,when it was just basic message boards and stuff then yeah, people were much more civil because it was a very small community.
The amount of people I had to plonk on Usenet tells a different story.
The AOL kids home page with all flash games. I played a lot of the tom and Jerry blueprint game.
It was like 92 or 93 and my dad brought home a computer and didn’t know what it could be used for so they just let 7 year old me mess around on it. My year older cousin told me that we could use it to talk to him using instant messaging. When I showed my parents they were blown away.
Also when I realized the computer they bought had bundled with it DOOM. That was great!
Newgrounds most definitely. And as an earlier poster stated, muds. Specifically MUME. Oh man many hours have been spent playing that game
John Titor. I wish he’d come back and fix things
