That time when you had to wait for the image to load line by line only to realize, her boobs where covered, and the utter disappointed of the image either being cropped or she was wearing pants.

I remember we discovered the shorter the phone cable the faster our connection would be. So my friend bought a 2 inch cable and we had the computer right up against the wall for that extra 2kbps

I used to play Doom with 2 other friends on the same keyboard. One moving, one firing and one (the most bored) opening doors and activating buttons.

OG multiplayer Doom.

i remember this vividly. going to my friend's house to watch the badger song, etc.

I was the one whose computer had the internet. The cruelest thing I ever did was get my friend, who had no computer at all, addicted to Ultima Online and EverQuest.

I would raise and contort my hand in sync with the dial-up tones when my friend was around to convince them I was a shaman

"One does not simply access the worldy wider web, my child. You have to sing to it."

When you entered, in the hallway there was a dedicated table that had a landline phone and paper phonebook on it. Possibly a pack of cigarettes and a lighter too.

Ahh.... Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.

two words, LAN party.

you're the man now dog

skipping around to various local BBS' downloading new shareware and trying it out into the wee hours of the night.

I recall there was this old DOS vector graphics looking helicopter game that was fucking impossible because it was realistic i guess and oh the joy we had taking turns and mocking each other as we crashed over and over over and over

edit: may have been Gunship certainly looks similar. Actually i don't think it was this because this looks playable and fun

My first hands-on experience with the Internet was at a friend's house in the early 90s in 4th or 5th grade. I'd seen it before on various classroom computers but I never got a chance to use it because the teachers all seemed to agree on putting the unstable desk-throwing kids in front of them for the school day to keep them distracted.

I remember going to my friend Ray's house who had a 386 with a ten meg hard drive and dual three and five inch floppy drives. They paid $2,500 for it at the time. We used to visit a porn site called Ed and Eddies? Then we would play a tank battle game. He had a blistering 300 baud modem.

Ah, the good ol’ days, when my friend’s computer would get jacked up from Bonzai Buddy because she thought it was too cute.

I thought it was weird and didn’t care for it, so I never put it on my family’s computer. After it was discovered to be spyware, I felt vindicated.

This but gaming instead.

As in, whatching our friend play aoe2 or something.

To be fair it's exactly the same as watching a streamer, minus the parasocial relationship.

We would ride our bikes to the library because their connection was faster and we could sit next to each other.

No, cause I was the friend with the computer. My dad worked in computers, so we had a computer in the eighties and internet in (I think) 1995. We got cable internet really early too, and my first username was “guywithcable”.

miss when we gathered to get into the internet instead of having to quit it alone.

All the time! Showing each other the cool sites we'd found. Messing with settings.

I'm only just enough old for the Wii lmao

it's not that old, it was still normal in 2010

We polished the prop to 28k in my full digits year. There better be 7 of us 28'ers here or we have failed - rule

everybody coming over to watch the new smosh video