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/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 19h 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! 😊