“I searched for song lyrics and printed them so I could learn them.”
We would get some alcohol and sit up all night talking taking to people… in AMERICA!!"
“You couldn’t actually call someone while they were using the internet.”
“That maze game jump scare.”
4.“1994.
Accessing my very first email account at college via Pine on a terminal emulator.
It felt wildly futuristic.”
“When I was in elementary school we had to do a paper about our favourite band/musician.
The point of the assignment was to learn how to use the internet to search for information.
“I put a virus on the family computer because I Googled ‘boobs’.”
“MSN messenger.”
“My family got a WebTV box in the ’90s.
We were all sitting in the living room, figuring it out.
9.“2004.
Playing games on Nickelodeon.com at my mum’s office.”
“I searched forsong lyricsand printed them so I could learn them.”
He was immediately pirating games onto floppy disks.
“Playing on Neopets.
We just looked at each other like it was the most bizarre thing.”
“Showing my age here, but at work we had to take turns dialling in to get online.
If someone was online too long, they were called and told to get off.”
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