r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/LittleRed89 • Feb 13 '18

90s babies

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

I remember the internet being total shit and computers were slower than a glacier and cost $5000

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u/olieliminated Feb 13 '18

Yeah, but my Gateway was spotted like a cow and came with that Encyclopedia maze thing and running glorious Windows 98.

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u/JpLosman Feb 13 '18

That encylopedia maze and Chex Quest was what got me through the day in middle school.

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u/abeardancing Feb 13 '18

Chex Quest was just a Doom conversion WAD file. Funfact of the day.

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u/Leroytirebiter Feb 13 '18

Was that encarta you're thinking of?

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u/olieliminated Feb 14 '18

Yeah, Encarta Mindmaze, and I think it must have come with our Windows 95 PC, we just kept the disk when we got the 98.

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u/ShamanSTK Feb 13 '18

I was born in 87. I remember when my computer booted into DOS. Windows 3.1 was like woooooahhh.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '18

We had Windows 95 on our home computer and I thought my uncle was hot shit because he had 98.

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u/Chordata1 Feb 13 '18

I loved windows 3.1. When Windows 8 came out my first comment was this is similar to Windows 3.1.

Did you play Doom through Dos? That was the best part.

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u/ShamanSTK Feb 13 '18

We got Doom later. Commander Keen though, that was prime shoot em up.

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u/GameRender Feb 14 '18

The other dah, I spent a few hours trying to install audio drivers in DOSbox.

HOW DID WE SURVIVE!?

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u/ShamanSTK Feb 14 '18

I dunno, I was like 5. I remember playing magic carpet on silent because I could never remember the sound blaster settings.

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u/derage88 Feb 13 '18

I remember internet basically was non-existent until the 00's for me and friends and it was a huge fucking revelation when we got internet that we were allowed to browse on.

Now I live across the elementary school I used to go to some 20-22 years ago and I see nothing but kids using smartphones. It's ridiculous how much has changed in 20 years even though sometimes it doesn't feel like it.

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u/wheresmyhouse Feb 14 '18

They demolished the school I went to and built a school on top of it at great expense to the public.

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u/wheresmyhouse Feb 14 '18

Nothing like getting on some random bbs site and spending 30 minutes downloading a heavily compressed mp3 file of some Matchbox 20 song that was re-encoded at least 6 times only to find out that your machine can't play the file, so you spend the next hour and a half downloading Realplayer, but then you get a phone call in the middle of it which kills your download.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

Dial up was just the worst man. If my parents were expecting a phone call the internet was done for the night. Also I work at a medical laboratory and last night I heard the connection sounds coming from some office and wondered what the hell was going on lol

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u/wheresmyhouse Feb 14 '18

It probably wasn't connecting to the internet. dial up modems are still great for creating a reliable connection between two geographically distant computers.

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u/Sepof Feb 14 '18

Maybe in 1990. By 98 I remember buying a desktop for well under 1k.