The coolest thing we had back then, for home use, was 'shotgun modems' which was dual 56k modems and two phone lines.

Yea but people didn’t really use the internet for entertainment back then yea?

I did.

56k lul

MSN Gaming Zone.

O what’s that

AOL had a gaming area too.

Ultima Online, the first MMO came out in '97 though. That's when internet gaming really took off.

I mean, you could count MUDDs as MMOs, or counter that Meridian 59 was an MMO, but none of those games hit over 1,000 people per server.

yeah i see what you mean. when i said 'people with internet access', that was probably not a very good way to describe for who counts as gen z. I think a better way to describe it would be the people who grew up when the "social media era" began. Like people who were in middle school or younger around like 2005-2010ish when big social media sites started popping up

I'd agree with that.

like when the internet started being more mainstream ^. for sure people used it before then, but you had to pretty into computer stuff i think back then to use the internet

Myspace was the big thing. Facebook was supposed be exactly what LinkedIn is, but it changed its path to Myspace and added games and more functionality. Now it takes over people's lives.

....like heroine. 😉

Yeah. In the 80s, computers were less mainstream. 90's a little moreso but not as much. Now they're so required that even cellphones are computers.

And That's why I don't use social media.

Or Heroine

In fact my smartphone is way more powerful than my IBM compatible with its 5 1/4th floppy. So much so, that I don't even wish to put a metric on it.

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And you?!

Shit

@Comando how long are we xeno-less?

a small price to pay for not being banned

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Oh ye

It’s party tim

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dammit

welp

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i must depart

Ok

See ya later

schleep schleep tem

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