>>15822035>If you wanted to talk to people you had to join IRC channels on a specific topic, join forums on specific topics, or spam usenet groups>Everyone had a Geocities page and it was wild For your reference:
https://www.cameronsworld.net/>It was slow as shit and my mom would interrupt my games of counter strike by using the phone>Limewire to download music and porn but you'd always get bill clinton>Getting viruses from cams.com whores that spammed popups all over windows 98 saying the FBI was coming to my house>Steam was a program that you launched your games from and didn't connect to the internet at all, the interface was puke green-grey. you had to buy disks>Getting free doom clones in cereal boxes>Everyone was more polite but that might just be because I was a kidMost importantly:
>No one was holding your hand, you just had to dive in and figure it out. Zoomers can't type, they don't know how to figure out computers, because tablets and phones are so locked down there's no room for manipulation, there's no struggle. Could you imagine zoomers today trying to daisy chain together a bunch of OG Xbox consoles together to play lan? Can you imagine them configuring PCs to work off a 10 port hub to do a lan party? Do they even remember cat 3?
