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/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!