I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack
Reblog this if you are an old fogey online
Things this starter pack simply does not convey:
- The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem
- The computer hanging up on the internet when someone called
- How damn long everything took to load
- Having multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browser
- IRC bots
- The frantic search for the midi player when a webpage started playing music
- Putting videos on to download overnight
- jpg compression on photos taken with the webcam
- This: