I had this computer. I was pirating everything on Limewire & Napster on average at like 5-40 kilobytes per second. Had a hidden porn folder my family couldn’t find because of course this was the family computer. I was chatting it up with girls on AOL messenger and myspace, blogging the most cringe and emo crap on xanga, and checking slashdot and digg everyday. I was playing all kinds of wild and comically shitty themed Starcraft & Warcraft pvp custom maps and spending hours upon hours on Runescape getting the stupidest skills leveled up with macros and luring people into the wilderness to gank em. I was making Dragon Ball Z anime music videos to Linkin Park, Incubus, Rancid & Rage Against the Machine songs. Printing off hundreds and hundreds of pages of guitar tabs, 90% of which I would never play because I wasn’t that good, printing out game guides, cheat codes, gameshark codes, and let us not forget mapquest directions. Was making shitty JavaScript gundam games. Downloading cracks and keycode gens for all kinds of software. I was responsible for at least one virus that made us reimage. Burning all my favorite songs on cds and making mix tapes for friends. I had that sick 3D pipe & 3d maze screensaver. Drinking surge and eating pizza bites.
When this computer was retired as the family computer it became my first Linux PC.
Bro this is 100% my experience. Some major upgrades that occurred during this time period: we got the app that let you answer phone calls while you were online, because before you couldn’t use phone and net at same time. And then eventually I got the kind of Walkman that let you play mp3 files on disc, so you fit 100s of songs on a CD. With the tape deck car adapter naturally. Trying to sneakily download porn was really tricky with how fucking loud that dialup 56k was.
I had this computer. I was pirating everything on Limewire & Napster on average at like 5-40 kilobytes per second. Had a hidden porn folder my family couldn’t find because of course this was the family computer. I was chatting it up with girls on AOL messenger and myspace, blogging the most cringe and emo crap on xanga, and checking slashdot and digg everyday. I was playing all kinds of wild and comically shitty themed Starcraft & Warcraft pvp custom maps and spending hours upon hours on Runescape getting the stupidest skills leveled up with macros and luring people into the wilderness to gank em. I was making Dragon Ball Z anime music videos to Linkin Park, Incubus, Rancid & Rage Against the Machine songs. Printing off hundreds and hundreds of pages of guitar tabs, 90% of which I would never play because I wasn’t that good, printing out game guides, cheat codes, gameshark codes, and let us not forget mapquest directions. Was making shitty JavaScript gundam games. Downloading cracks and keycode gens for all kinds of software. I was responsible for at least one virus that made us reimage. Burning all my favorite songs on cds and making mix tapes for friends. I had that sick 3D pipe & 3d maze screensaver. Drinking surge and eating pizza bites.
When this computer was retired as the family computer it became my first Linux PC.
What a time to be alive.
Edit: I keep editing when new memories pop up.
Did they honour the “upgrade to the fastest model every 2 years” bit? If so, are you still getting a new pc every 2 years for $99?
Can we please go back to those times? I don’t know if I like the modern world.
Don’t forget the WinAMP skins!
We used to trade them like Pokémon cards
Bro this is 100% my experience. Some major upgrades that occurred during this time period: we got the app that let you answer phone calls while you were online, because before you couldn’t use phone and net at same time. And then eventually I got the kind of Walkman that let you play mp3 files on disc, so you fit 100s of songs on a CD. With the tape deck car adapter naturally. Trying to sneakily download porn was really tricky with how fucking loud that dialup 56k was.
Im not old, but was poor so gladly have a loy of these same memories!!
Where did you hide the porn?
C:\Windows\System34
Asking the important questions here.
Did the reimagining wipe the “homework” folder?
Desktop folder labelled “homework.”
Damn you’re old! Me too. I lived many of these memories even down to the tabs! 🎸