I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend's house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.

Now we're all reading Lemmy and trying to save open computing because we're the only generation who knows what it is.

One day a coworker announced he had bought a PC with the new 80286 processor running at 10 MHz (an unheard of blistering speed).

That afternoon the entire Engineering Department went to his house to look at it.

The millennial amount of old haha

Back when 1984 was just a story, not Government policy

We were trying to load up Leisure Suit Larry from 5.25" floppy on my friend's dad's IBM PC before he noticed we were in his office downstairs.

Diablo 2 required OVER 1GB of hard drive space to install and 3 CDs. Computer game install sizes are getting out of control.

N64 with 4 controllers and Forsaken while getting a sweet sweet 15 frames per second of motion sickness-inducing awesomeness.

LAN party just to play the Unreal Tournament demo.

Discovering you could use 3333333333333333333 as the CD key for Starcraft.

Heroes of Might and Magic hotseat multiplayer games taking all weekend.

xvid movies that would fit on a CD-R

"Have you guys heard of this broadband thing?"

Monthly nerd conclave to install Linux from the latest Linux Magazine CD. Mandrake has this new KDE 1.0 thing, looks neat.

Magic: The Gathering - Coat of Arms is dumb why does he have 2 of them AND Slivers??!

WAAAY before that: MUDs via BBS (and later Telnet/zMUD 5.55)

The Youths (20-somethings) at work have a new 3d printer, and were explaining how they were using the printer to print additional parts for the printer, so I said "oh, like downloading Limewire pro" and the blank looks made me feel so old.

Old enough to know what RealPlayer was. And to use Netscape communicator.

You think my buddy had internet? We would go over to his house to play DOS games.

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Good shit

I remember getting in trouble for showing my friend questionable things I found on Newgrounds

I was doing this with friends as late as 2012, because all of us were poor and couldn't afford those fancy new iphones

Ahhh the good old 90s for me... Get together, play games, share information and combos about games. I remember playing Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and trying to see who can do all the combos or fatalities while playing on the same computer. I recently find a photo from those times. Feeling a bit nostalgic.

That's crazy. I had no idea everyone said "look at the computer". Also, I miss being a kid. Growing up in the 90s and 20s was magical time.

Waiting for the image/video to load because dial-up

We got our first computer around 1980, there was no information superhighway then. I also remember before that, when pinball tables were pretty cool.

Typing in the original Goatse URL at somebody's house on their computer

Gathering around the very pre-internet (actually I think pre-windows) computer to play scorched earth.

We used go to Internet cafes and log onto anonymous chat rooms as a tween group of three. Thought it was HILARIOUS. then eventually got computers in our houses... Dial up.. Rotten.com...etc etc... Funniest time of my life hands down. Big up maddox.xmission articles.👐 Would love to find all the random hilarious videos that made me crack up so much.

Or LAN parties so we could all play each other in Warcraft, or party up for a D&D multiplayer adventure together. Good times.

We went to each other's houses because we each had a different computer - I had Commodore, one had Apple II, one had a TI-99/4A, etc. We'd work together to type in free games from program listings in magazines, and help find the inevitable typos - learned a LOT from that. Great times, indeed.

Im 20 and I did this as well because cheap broadband internet didn't arrive everywhere at the same time

Trading floppies at the library

That's how I learned about the great Scorched Earth and T.I.M.

Playing Elite in the BBC Micro at my friend’s house because the internet didn’t exist.

"Normal amount" is a bit over 40, no?

I was about 15 but the rest tracks.

Some classmates made their own website, and they uploaded embarrassing photos of me, and audio recordings of them prank calling me, and then they shared the URL with the entire class, and gave a presentation of their website in class for extra credit, and the teacher didn't get that I wasn't in on it, and said it's a really cool website, and then everyone laughed, so yeah there was that also.