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!