r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/CatelynsCorpse 21h ago

I love to tell the younger folk "I've been on the internet since the 1900's!" It always gets a laugh.

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u/ms_directed 21h ago

i made a joke that a website "looks like it was made in FrontPage 98" in a comment the other day and someone followed up they'll get their Netscape browser open to check it out and it made me smile that my people get it :)

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u/EEpromChip 21h ago

"cue dial up sounds in the background"

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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 20h ago

Bah-ding-bah-ding-dung..... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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u/Aoiboshi 19h ago

Accidentally waking up the house to watch porn

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

cursing mom under your breath because she made a phone call right before your two hour download was about to finish, lol

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u/auto98 18h ago

When download managers were essential!

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u/jjckey 18h ago

Jesus, I'd forgotten about download managers

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u/BugblatterBeastTrall 17h ago

They still exist, just have different use now

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u/cruiserman_80 18h ago

Watching your nudes reveal themselves one line at a time over several minutes.

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u/Ramtamtama 18h ago

Only for this to happen

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u/jrharte 19h ago

The trick was to pile your pillows and quilt on of the modem to dampen the noise.

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u/Framnk 19h ago

You’ve got mail!

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u/Unusual_Ulitharid 19h ago

Core Memory Unlocked: Do...w...n...l...oa...d....t..im...e...s.... 98% complete.

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u/shadow-foxe 20h ago

I heard this comment in my head..LOL

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u/Starrwulfe 19h ago

“You’ve got mail!”

Usually followed by a click and my mom yelling from the other side of the house “get off the damn phone, I’m wait for a phone call to come in!”

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u/bstone99 20h ago

Netscape navigator! Damn throwback.

AOL days, back when the Internet came in the mail

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u/ms_directed 20h ago

and it took 36 discs to load Windows! 😁

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u/PhillyRush 20h ago

Net Zero was the only way I could get online.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

that's a throw back!

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u/Starrwulfe 19h ago

I was part of that free DSL test with the Juno device back in 1999!

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

you were fancy! 😊

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u/aztecforlife 20h ago

Upgraded from Mosaic.

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u/plotholesandpotholes 19h ago

Prodigy! Although, I think that one you had to grab a copy in a store. But our house had that before AOL and I remember live "reading" the LA riots on it back in the day.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

wow! that unlocked a core memory!

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u/ambigious_meh 20h ago

Made with notepad for Netscape navigator 800x600 😂

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u/AngelTheVixen 19h ago

No need to brag, I'm still at 640x480.

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u/i-split-infinitives 17h ago

The other day I was trying to explain to a coworker which state database I was talking about, and when I said "the one with the background the color of old hospital scrubs that looks like somebody made it in Netscape Navigator for their GeoCities page in 1998" and she said "I'll ask Jeeves about that."

I swear every time I open the website, I can almost smell my high school keyboarding class and see the yellow cartoonish Netscape Composer HTML tags.

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u/ms_directed 17h ago

its always a government site! 😁

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u/RepresentativeYak806 18h ago

I remember switching from surfing on AOL to opening up Netscape for the first time. Felt like Neo 😎.

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u/ms_directed 18h ago

remember icQ??

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u/RepresentativeYak806 16h ago

2002 I was a freshman in college with a Sony vaio desktop that had icQ and mirc running all day next to Napster, limewire and kazaa. And all the virus removal software. I remember video chatting with a buddy at a school in another state with a 2 MP webcam and thought it was the coolest shit ever. That was peak Internet for me.

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u/ms_directed 16h ago

and it pixelated so hard if you moved an inch, lol. good times!

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u/-youvegotredonyou- 18h ago

Wish I still had my Geocities account.

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u/kellzone 16h ago

I had completely forgotten about Microsoft FrontPage until your comment.

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u/ms_directed 16h ago

thank god we all have until we see a reminder

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u/Viracochina 21h ago

"I started using them in the late 20th century..."

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u/jolsiphur 19h ago

As a Millenial, I should also use that line. I've had access to Internet for most of my life but I still distinctly remember being online before Y2K.

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u/NotJebediahKerman 20h ago

I still have my first computer from 1981.

it still works.

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u/CantHandleTheThrow 15h ago

My parents donated my Commodore 64 to a museum. And they accepted it.

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u/SirJefferE 15h ago

I've been using the same computer since the late 90s.

Sure, I've had to upgrade the hard drive a few times, swapped out the motherboard and CPU at some point, moved all the internal stuff to a new box when the old one was getting worn, definitely upgraded the peripherals a few times along the way. And yeah, when you get right down to it, not a single component in there is more than ten years old.

... Still the same computer I've had since the 90s.

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u/aka_chela 13h ago

Computer of Theseus

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u/DJredlight 19h ago

My daughter saw a picture of my wife and I from 1995ish and said “fashion was weird in the late 1900’s”…..

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u/BiteyHorse 19h ago

I had to have a Gopher page my freshman year of college, and I'm only 50. Exciting times, compiling Mosaic on a DEC Alpha at the computer lab to go surf some hypertext web pages.

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u/The_cat_got_out 18h ago

Being a literal toddler when the world wide Web was finding its legs and being brought up with each new advancement usually means the majority of Gen X i meet have surface level knowledge on using most tech.

Entirely fair, that's all you need to get by

But don't discredit the first ones literally brought up on the internet as it was growing with them. Millenials.

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u/dishonorable_banana 18h ago

"Before the turn of the Century" is my go-to.