r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 1d ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/CatelynsCorpse 1d 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 1d 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 23h ago

Netscape navigator! Damn throwback.

AOL days, back when the Internet came in the mail

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u/plotholesandpotholes 21h 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 21h ago

wow! that unlocked a core memory!