actually 1991

but there was not a lot to do

yahoo had a good list of sites

1990 kid here

remember pogs

yep

Finding things pre search engines was a whole nother era

Old fags lol get owned

Who remember pogo moonhopper

And skipit

from pogs to pawgs

i had an awesome slammer

i thought you had to be really old to remember pogs

pretty sure that was a thing when i was in middle school

in canada they were around till like 1997

the only mobile gaming around when i grew up was gameboy

Based times

answering machines to pagers to cellular phones

Fax gen

i used payphones

so did i in 2014

once

i did until 2001 when i got a mobile phone

used to have weather sent to my text pager

early adopter

I didnt get mobile till like 2005

or 06, idk

i got lucky we lived in the east bay area where there was a lot of tech

i had DSL in 1997

sucked when on vacation having to use dialup again

oh ok, so you were in the valley adjacent

even in a high tech area in 2001 the phone did not work a lot of places

norcal

there was a time where you could easily drive out of phone service range

I got mobile late too

I didn't fry my brain until high school

And only learned to recover starting around 2017

my first few phones all had digital/analog too

i liked forcing my phone into analog only

battery drainer

Got my first phone after my confirmation lol