Fri, Feb 19, 2021 10:26 AM
We're all old and have been on the interwebs for a long time. Share old stuff from the simpler times of the internet here because it's Friday and I'm bored.
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The old AOL sign in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOgSPVBmIE
You’ve got mail!
(I personally know the guy who was the voice of AOL.)
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Getting those discs in the mail for so many free hours of AOL. And then finding out that the nearest AOL source was in a town that was considered a long-distance phone call. That shit was not free, man. My phone bill for my first month of teh internet was 4x the usual.
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AIM away messages. Those came around and got really popular at my most impressionable time...Sophmore in HS.
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Homestar Runner is only the greatest thing of all time!
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While not so much internet, I get nostalgic for The Sims quite often.
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I'm cool with this thread encompassing old computer games as well.
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posted by justincredibleI'm cool with this thread encompassing old computer games as well.
In that case!!
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posted by justincredibleI'm cool with this thread encompassing old computer games as well.
I recently dominated a game of Oregon Trail. I remember playing as a kid and always dying pretty quickly - must not have understood the concept of stopping to rest.
I've also over the last 5 or 10 years bought some PC games I loved as a kid - Police Quest, Hero's Quest and Doom.
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Doom 2 is the greatest. With the exception of that one annoying-ass late-game level where you had to walk on ledges above toxic pits and those ledges are about as wide as a strand of spaghetti.
There was a period 10 or so years ago when I discovered all the fan made .wad files to make new Doom games off the source code, since ID Software made it accessible to the public. There was just this non-stop collection of kickass levels that tended to more than make up for Doom 2's one failing -- that it was a pretty easy game, at least for a long while into it. Alien Vendetta, Memento Mori, Requiem, there's a long list of really good fan-made Dooms. I was OBSESSED with them for a long time.
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posted by Hereticthere was just this non-stop collection of kickass levels that tended to more than make up for Doom 2's one failing -- that it was a pretty easy game, at least for a long while into it. Alien Vendetta, Memento Mori, Requiem, there's a long list of really good fan-made Dooms. I was OBSESSED with them for a long time.
I'm not sure how many of those I found. I think the Doom2 emulator I had might have had the 2-3 best ones.
I got Doom 3 in the gamepack I purchased. Couldn't get into it, although didn't give it much of a chance. My issue with most "modern" video games is I don't have the patience to become adept at the precise timing of complicated moves a lot of games seemed to require.
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Holy shit....
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icq didn't have usernames, right? You just had a random number? I remember using the hell out of it, but I don't remember a lot of the specifics.