I have memories from the early 90s playing a DOS version of Dig-Dug all day when I didn't want to go to school.
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Side note: I didn't properly learn how to play Minesweeper until well after I got my first smart phone, it's a real banger of a game. I highly recommend giving it a chance if, like me, you were too young to figure it out and just randomly pressed on squares until it blew up.
We thought it couldn't get better than this, and in fact it didn't get better.
The last 25 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.
I didn't mind the early 2000's web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too.
1997 to before Facebook existed were the best Internet years.
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Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O
If you wanted to put in the time you could finder power ups!
I've got a Dungeon Master's guide
I've got a twelve sided die
I've got Kitty Pryde
And Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me
Yes I do
I do
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We thought it could never get better than this
And we were right
It's so cool how we all share this experience. It's a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.
There will be plenty of post-cellphone generations after the collapse.
Those of us who drew random squiggles in Paint and filled the loops using the bucket tool are just objectively better and healthier people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yes, hello! I made some beautiful stained glass are
Filling the mspaint canvas with the spray paint tool 🤗
If you don't have Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you're doing with your life.
Edit: also on every other platform
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Uhhh excuse me?
Where's Number Munchers?
...or Oregon Trail?
...or QBasic games like Gorillas?
...and Nibbles (aka Snake)
...and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
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As a teenager, I got really good at drawing boobs from the side and the front in MS paint.
Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.8kbs.
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The first PC I had in my bedroom didn’t have internet, in fact we didn’t have internet in the house at all, but when bored I would still click the internet E xplorer logo sometimes to see if it would magically work.
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit "app" from the "app store" that was full of ads...
This is also life with internet when your parents come in your bedroom
The rest of us had better jerk off a material.
Sorry that you had to cum to cards and pinball
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If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you'd achieve perfection.
Windows 3.5 was the apex of operating system design. There, I said it. Fight me, I dont care.
I think almost everyone started with ms paint, no? I have no idea what skifree is.
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