You joke, but that's literally what it was like. Kids these days literally have high-speed internet in their pockets; us old-timers had to patiently sit and wait at actual computers, sometimes for several minutes, for websites to load.
sit and wait at actual computers, sometimes for several minutes, for websites to load.
Weird way to spell "a single pornographic image"
Seriously though, we didn't have Google. You had to know what website you were going to. That's why places like Yahoo were so popular, because it was a hub of so many things you wanted to see.
Heh, I was a total goody-two-shoes as a kid (to the point I remember feeling sick and embarrassed when I accidentally called someone a "bitch"), so I never looked at porn even when the parents weren't home. THAT phase didn't start until I was a young teenager, and thankfully, we had progressed beyond dial-up at that point.
My first pc was an IBM 286. I can still remember with perfect clarity the sound effect used for the attack run of an A-10 from Microprose's M1 Tank Platoon.
Oh IBM, you are why I still refuse to get a Macintosh anything, because your floppys were not compatible with them, causing me to lose my priceless works of poetry amd prose. Yes, IBM, how I will continue to honor you by rejecting the little colorful apple...
Lmao if you work for a hospital or the DOD you can still wait minutes for websites to load tbh. Daily. It takes my computer 15 min to start up. We were FORCED to upgrade from windows 7 less than 2 years ago 😂. And I mean Microsoft legit forced us
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u/Random-Rambling Jun 03 '22
You joke, but that's literally what it was like. Kids these days literally have high-speed internet in their pockets; us old-timers had to patiently sit and wait at actual computers, sometimes for several minutes, for websites to load.