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I do. It was 1998 and I got a crappy website on geocities where I uploaded pictures of Sailor Moon and Pikachu. I was like, 11, I think. Or 12. When I first got my computer I was in 5th grade, so I think it was 11. I played Carmen Sandiego A LOT, Where in Time, Where in the World, and Where in the USA (I got Word Detective and Math Detective later on, for free from like cereal boxes or something.) Remember that in 1998 there was no social networking as we know it, there were forums but no Myspace, Facebook, and certainly nothing like Twitter because cell phones weren't commonplace back then. If you wanted to tell people about yourself you had to build a website on your own, and if you wanted "friends" you had to put links to their websites yourself, and if they didn't have a website, well, tough luck. We were also a lot more concerned about privacy, no one EVER gave their names, especially not their last names, and most people didn't post pictures. We all used avatars and fake names (I didn't do much communicating with other people though... I was half scared and half just not interested.) AIM was kind of a big deal. And since dial-up was such a pain in the ass, we didn't look at many pictures and certainly not any videos (if you wanted to see a video, you had to download it first, and it took hours and hours, and would certainly never have loaded in the browser.) We had flash, but javascript games loaded much faster and so most people used that to play games instead of flash games. (Wow, suddenly "flash" doesn't sound like a word anymore. Hmm.)
I kind of miss it, ngl. But I do like my fast internet and youtube videos and stuff. I like the connectedness. I wouldn't want to go back.
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I do. It was 1998 and I got a crappy website on geocities where I uploaded pictures of Sailor Moon and Pikachu. I was like, 11, I think. Or 12. When I first got my computer I was in 5th grade, so I think it was 11. I played Carmen Sandiego A LOT, Where in Time, Where in the World, and Where in the USA (I got Word Detective and Math Detective later on, for free from like cereal boxes or something.) Remember that in 1998 there was no social networking as we know it, there were forums but no Myspace, Facebook, and certainly nothing like Twitter because cell phones weren't commonplace back then. If you wanted to tell people about yourself you had to build a website on your own, and if you wanted "friends" you had to put links to their websites yourself, and if they didn't have a website, well, tough luck. We were also a lot more concerned about privacy, no one EVER gave their names, especially not their last names, and most people didn't post pictures. We all used avatars and fake names (I didn't do much communicating with other people though... I was half scared and half just not interested.) AIM was kind of a big deal. And since dial-up was such a pain in the ass, we didn't look at many pictures and certainly not any videos (if you wanted to see a video, you had to download it first, and it took hours and hours, and would certainly never have loaded in the browser.) We had flash, but javascript games loaded much faster and so most people used that to play games instead of flash games. (Wow, suddenly "flash" doesn't sound like a word anymore. Hmm.)
I kind of miss it, ngl. But I do like my fast internet and youtube videos and stuff. I like the connectedness. I wouldn't want to go back.
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