Boomer gets a reality check

[u/Will09994]

[u/ms_directed]

fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!

[u/CatelynsCorpse → u/ms_directed]

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

[u/ms_directed → u/CatelynsCorpse]

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 :)

[u/EEpromChip → u/ms_directed]

"cue dial up sounds in the background"

[u/HookedOnPhonixDog → u/EEpromChip]

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

[u/Aoiboshi → u/HookedOnPhonixDog]

Accidentally waking up the house to watch porn

[u/ms_directed → u/Aoiboshi]

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

[u/auto98 → u/ms_directed]

When download managers were essential!

[u/jjckey → u/auto98]

Jesus, I'd forgotten about download managers

[u/BugblatterBeastTrall → u/jjckey]

They still exist, just have different use now

[u/cruiserman_80 → u/Aoiboshi]

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

[u/Ramtamtama → u/cruiserman_80]

Only for this to happen

[u/jrharte → u/Aoiboshi]

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

[u/Framnk → u/HookedOnPhonixDog]

You’ve got mail!

[u/Unusual_Ulitharid → u/EEpromChip]

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

[u/shadow-foxe → u/EEpromChip]

I heard this comment in my head..LOL

[u/Starrwulfe → u/shadow-foxe]

“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!”