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Damn good game. I can hear all the sound FX now.
someone reverse engineered it :) https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
you can play it here: https://pinball.alula.me/
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Yeah, the ubiquity of it made it even more attractive to advertisers. Even more attractive when everything went from being individual forums to Facebook groups or subreddits.
But then what would I do while out for a walk, be alone with my thoughts and observant of my surroundings??
Sent from my smartphone while out for a walk.
I’m only 35 and we did this as kids.
I’m under 30 and did this
Only 35 lol
Rude haha
You’ll be 35 before you know it. At a certain point in adulthood, years start to fly by so fast.
You’ll be 35 before you know it
I’m almost there. I accepted I was old when I joined a video game and heard “You sound like you’re 30”. I was infact, 30.
Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.
I’m old enough to remember there are two kinds of taking turns.
- we all wait our turn to put something in the search field together (ours was altavista).
- we all take turns going outside or watching TV until it was our turn not together.
Did you look at bobs?
After the image loaded line by line for about 15 minutes, indeed!
I had a 1.4MB floppy of gold, and I learned to silence the modem.
I remember when I was 10 going to radio shack and watching a guy who worked there type in programs in basic on a ts-80 computer. Thought it was cool. There was no Internet then.
*TRS-80
Yes, woke up in the night and realized I forgot the r, thanks for correction.
You welcome
That typo reminded me of the steam game TIS-100, where you write programs in assembly for a fictional multi core computer architecture
If you like programming and puzzles it’s hella fun. If you don’t I highly recommend you don’t buy it, you won’t have fun.
I already do that for money
Yes but this is fictional programming in assembly for no money.
Fictional you say? Fuck it, I’m down.
I already do that for no money also
one of the best games ive ever played. i also cannot recommend it
Zachlikes are always wonderful.
*Trash 80
There it is
ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.
Or datasette tapes because floppy readers were expensive.
or typing in the assembly from a magazine article! which never works lol
Back in my day, they were called floppy disks for a reason.
Mine was hard though
5.25 or 8 inch?
I’m a modest man
You call that 8 inches?
SCNR
There was no hard disk.
Back when my friend got AOL for the first time, I came over and we sent an e-mail to the While House urging Bill Clinton to protect the environment.
I’m not insecure about my age, though. On the contrary, people younger than me should be insecure about theirs. No one born in the 21st century can ever really reach adulthood, IMO.
Lol are you one of those kids from The Kid’s Guide to the Internet?
My taekwondo trainer is younger than my driver’s license. That kind of hurt.
I was new when the Internet was new (for consumers), but I remember introducing Warcraft II to a friend.
Zug zug.
Did you get the ones on the floppy or on the CD?
yes
I think the first time I played it, I used my brother’s computer on which he had already installed it, probably through floppies.
I don’t remember how I installed it on subsequent computers … But I have written programs in BASIC and transported them on floppies, including for college courses.
Silly story, my first gf would do this with her best friend all the time. Insisted I came with but between my parents and school it took a bit, which was fine by me because I had internet at home and a little laptop as opposes to a clunky desktop. Finally did join them, turns out they went over to her bestie’s and watched porn together. Teen me kicked himself for not getting in on that sooner, adult me woners if that was a red flag.
That was definitely a different time than was being described and you definitely were missing out and that was definitely a red flag
“All of the above”
I’m so decrepit I can remember a time when “computer” was a term that described a device you could control the software of, kiddo.
You still can.
I run Pop!_OS BTW
I’m on Arch. :)
Try-hard
That, and I prefer the package management over here.
apt-get a better package manager
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on that one.
(But I’m glad to hear that what you like to use works well for you)
They’re just jealous they don’t get to watch an animation in the terminal emulator when they do a system update.
When I was 10, there was no information superhighway. HTTP wasn’t even around yet.
When I was 10, we didn’t have a computer at home. If homework needed to be typed, I did it on a typewriter.
We had both but really only because of both my parents’ jobs having been in tech since the late '70s and early '80s.
I was like “HTTP” has been around forever, sure it was out before I was ten…
Nope I was 12, ugh.
If we go by the 1.0 release, I was well into highschool, heh.
I’m in my 30s myself. People in their 30s are not old God damnit.
Now, where the fuck are my gout pils.
Just keep telling yourself you’re not old and soon you’ll be 45 and your back will hurt, ask me how I know…
Wait until you get to 50 and your knees start to give out.
Friend’s family had WebTV before my family even had dial-up. My mom was too worried about the internet having porn and I was already dreaming of getting porn on the TV. Eventually she consented to internet on the living room PC so she could monitor it and that dumb bitch didn’t notice the lan cable we routed up the stairs. Every teenager was a network admin in those days. I learned to encrypt hard drives as soon as PC’s were powerful enough to handle the performance hit of encryption.
Every teenager was a network admin in those days.
Also (although potentially later) every teenager was a DJ with all those MP3s they got from napster.
And then PC repair technician for the limewire viruses.
Neopeys and taking turns playing RuneScape.
When Neopets first came out, I used the entire month’s data allowance in a day. From memory I think we only had 100MB. I wasn’t allowed to use the internet with images turned on after that. Luckily by the time Runescape came out we had a much higher limit.
Yahoo used to have a music video section. The videos would load fine on a cable connection but 56K took forever at potato quality. Had to go to a friend’s house with better internet to watch any videos. Load up a video, leave home hoping the internet doesn’t disconnect, go to a friend’s house to watch a few, and then head back home to see if the video mostly loaded before timing out. The parents at home were okay with leaving the internet running because it stopped telemarketer calls which were rampant at the time.
Cat used to sleep on top of the CRT and got a rude awakening after we upgraded the monitor. Hopped right over the LCD. Computers used to be useful in ways that have been engineered out.
