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This evening I've realized that I'm roughly twice as old as I was when I first discovered the magic of the interweb. That's probably no spectacular feat, as I was on one of the first few major waves of internet subscribers. I originally used my 386 (with new 33.6k modem) to connect to Brainerd Online, a local ISP... It appears as if the service went under a few years ago.
I remember one book I used to have. It was a printed directory of websites. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be almost all of them. It was roughly the size of a phonebook and it sites were categorized by purpose. Each site had a short description as well as the address (occasionally IP addresses)... Oh the mountains of shareware I had from the games section!
Ahh the classics!
Any arcade clone by PLBM, Mario VGA (a pretty decent mario clone), Capture The Flag (Play By E-Mail even!). Oh those were fun times... Searching the net for new shareware/freeware through links to other pages.
I remember opening my awesome new copy of Sim City 2000 (on 2 floppies, I still have it around somewhere...) and putting it on my computer. That was a wonderful time-sink, and it never did have the fastest speed setting (only for 486's and above) or music through my sound card (I never could get the native DOS drivers to work right...). But I liked it damnit... Now there are these kids and their damn rock music and graphics and FPS games and their myspace... damn kids... get off my lawn...
I remember one book I used to have. It was a printed directory of websites. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be almost all of them. It was roughly the size of a phonebook and it sites were categorized by purpose. Each site had a short description as well as the address (occasionally IP addresses)... Oh the mountains of shareware I had from the games section!
Ahh the classics!
Any arcade clone by PLBM, Mario VGA (a pretty decent mario clone), Capture The Flag (Play By E-Mail even!). Oh those were fun times... Searching the net for new shareware/freeware through links to other pages.
I remember opening my awesome new copy of Sim City 2000 (on 2 floppies, I still have it around somewhere...) and putting it on my computer. That was a wonderful time-sink, and it never did have the fastest speed setting (only for 486's and above) or music through my sound card (I never could get the native DOS drivers to work right...). But I liked it damnit... Now there are these kids and their damn rock music and graphics and FPS games and their myspace... damn kids... get off my lawn...