Poll of the Day > Whats your personal "back in my day" gaming or internet memory.

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For me it was either Yahoo games or playing halo for the first time online.

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Excite chat rooms

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Yahoo chat rooms

Msn Messenger

Starcraft 1 B.net, fantastically unique UMS maps (which birthed precursors to MOBA games, either League or DOTA I forget which, but was based off a Starcarft UMS called Reign of Strife which later became a WC3 map)

When Facebook was actually good

Aliens Versus Predator 1 on PC, esp multiplayer, ssooooooo good

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Do you remember when Duke Nukem was about collecting balloons and miniature flags. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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playing everquest back in like 2002 just playing a character that never left town just brewed beer and got drunk and stumbled around


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I wish Id gotten more into Quake III arena, but I just missed the boat on that afa seeing how fun competitive play was

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in runescape, making ages_boy2 because ages_boy lost his tinderbox and couldn't find another

ages_boy is still wandering the fields of cows and goblins to this day

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Back when you only had the same screen over and over the entire game (Atari 2600), and games had no end, except losing all your lives.

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Quake 3 Freezerails/tag

Warcraft 3 crashing for the billionth time on my HP with it's powerful 533mhz processor

Playing Half-life 1 after completing 2 and saying to myself, "I get it".

Nearly all of my gaming or internet memories are "back in my day" memories.

I started using Telnet to log in to BBSes and occasionally used Lynx to browse the text-based Internet (NOT the Web).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

I didn't actually see the Web until college, when I started using Netscape to visit sites here and there (and eventually made my own, and a bunch for other people, and a few for pay, etc, back when you basically coded the entire page with prompts and tags in Notepad).

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A sea of gifs and hit counters on Geocities. I watched endless <blink> glitter in the dark on every page. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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Back in my day the N game and Super Meat Boy were just flash games on Newgrounds.

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Playing AoE II online when I was 12 with strangers.

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aoe2 was why im agesboy!

i wasn't very good at making names when i was nine on neopets

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My personal memory is ongoing, more than three decades after it had started.

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cartoon network games on their website. first time I started gaming on PC. was when I was in the 6th grade. 2001. actually that wasn't the first time gaming on the PC. it was the first time using the internet to game.

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Gaming off of floppies and DOS, playing text-based MUDs, Atari 2600 & Intellivision, NES, roleplaying AOL chatrooms...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A sea of gifs and hit counters on Geocities. I watched endless glitter in the dark on every page. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

lol


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hanging out with my friends on the weekends, playing D&D and videogames.

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I can remember when I started to play Colecovision.

In school, we used to play "BOMBER" from the MECC Elementary Volume on Apple II.

One of the first games I got to play was Doom running on DOS.

The most obvious is "back in my day, there was no internet"

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What_The_Chris posted...

The most obvious is "back in my day, there was no internet"

another 1980s kid ^^

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(Dial-up noises)
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alt.fan.furry

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Using Amazon to order books, because that's all they sold.

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Couldnt look up the solutions to those Sierra adventure games because..... the internet didnt exist. Sometimes I miss those days.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Couldnt look up the solutions to those Sierra adventure games because..... the internet didnt exist.

"Back in my day" we had hint hotlines!

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Anyone remember Microsoft The Zone, for online gaming? Used to play some ant game, avp, r6, aoe, aoe2 and dark forces 2 on there.
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ultra magnus13 posted...

Anyone remember Microsoft The Zone, for online gaming? Used to play some ant game, avp, r6, aoe, aoe2 and dark forces 2 on there.

I think they still have it under subsidiary MSN but for like simpler games now, I played Spades on there a bit ago

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Far-Queue posted...

"Back in my day" we had hint hotlines!

Or you bought the hint book.



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Some of my fondest memories came from gaming in Ultima Online. I remember at one point I had joined a semi-random shard and was walking around doing my thing when I ran across someone on the north side of Britain that had the same handle that one of my real life friends used. So I started chatting with him and sure the fuck enough it happened to be him. It was an incredibly bizarre coincidence.

But my 'back in my day' memory would be the instruction booklets that came with games. Busting them out and reading them when I was bored, or driving home from the store with a brand new game and being so excited that I just wanted to get right into it. Looking at the incredibly cool artwork. etc.

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I remember going to arcades and being in awe of the kids who knew how to do all of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat.

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Video game boxes that didn't look anything like the game.





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What_The_Chris posted...

The most obvious is "back in my day, there was no internet"

Unless you're over the age of 50, that's not actually true. And you'd probably have to be at least 60 to consider an Internet-less age "back in your day".

Back in your day there was probably no World Wide Web (which didn't exist until 1991), but that's slightly different.



TyVulpine posted...

another 1980s kid

The Internet existed in the 1980s. Granted, most people (especially kids) didn't know about it (though it was more common on college/university campuses), but it was there. It didn't really have the massive boom of public awareness/use until the creation of the World Wide Web and the rise of services like Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL in the mid-90s, but the infrastructure itself was there and plenty of people were using it (via things like BBSes and Usenet) for years.

Having lived through it, I'd argue that the "Internet Age" didn't really kick off hard until around 2000 or so (give or take a year). But anyone growing up in the wake of that (say, anyone who's 25 or younger today) really won't have any idea what it was like growing up in a world where the Internet wasn't a universal presence.
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Yes the internet existed in the 1980s but it wasnt really publicly available, it was mostly for colleges and companies.

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Home versions of video games that didn't look anything like the arcade version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPpgt0s70U

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captpackrat posted...

Home versions of video games that didn't look anything like the arcade version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPpgt0s70U

I can still hear the sounds without even having to play that video, and I havent played that game in nearly 36 years...

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the one that really sends me back is the O RLY owl

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

the one that really sends me back is the O RLY owl

Oh yea! Lol

That and "Oh reary..." Kim Jong il from Team America were some favs of mine

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back when the internet was invented the first videos to surface were halo machinima movies made by 14 year old directors and a lobby full of aspiring actors

did anyone else get casted as an extra in a movie?

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magemaximus posted...

cartoon network games on their website. first time I started gaming on PC. was when I was in the 6th grade. 2001. actually that wasn't the first time gaming on the PC. it was the first time using the internet to game.

Yeah! I remember playing a Courage or Dexter island getaway mystery adventure thing.
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Playing Runescape in 2004.

I mean, I still play Runescape (Old School). But it hit different back in 2004.

I saw another player get killed by a guard in one of the cities and the player dropped a ton of runes and money. Well, it seemed like a ton for a new player.

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Boards.Sega.com back when the Dreamcast wasn't totally dead yet

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magemaximus posted...

cartoon network games on their website. first time I started gaming on PC. was when I was in the 6th grade. 2001. actually that wasn't the first time gaming on the PC. it was the first time using the internet to game.

Holy shit, this reminded me of a long forgotten memory. The Cartoon Network website let users create their own little webpages by picking a background and putting animated stickers that played music and stuff. I don't remember what it was called.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Boards.Sega.com back when the Dreamcast wasn't totally dead yet

That was my second oldest internet account (after my animalcrossingcommunity.net account), created back in March 2004.

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Sonic Fanfiction and "scripts" about Sonic OCs were already a thing back then

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Posting about games on ezboard in the early 2000s and then invisionfree in the mid-2000s before I really stated paying attention to GameFAQs.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Sonic Fanfiction and "scripts" about Sonic OCs were already a thing back then

https://youtu.be/RtemEkcfhng

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@Metalsonic66 I wasnt always a huge Dorkly fan cause he was too extra with the violence (gratuitous) and I wasnt big into Sonic stuff (aside the core Genesis games) but for a while this video was one of my favorite things on Youtube, please tell me it put a smile on your face like it did when I first saw it

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Das the good shit

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