BUT MOM NOOOO MY DRAGON BALL Z EPISODE IS ALMOST DONE DOWNLOADING IT TOOK ME 2 HOURS NOOOOO

I DONT CARE IF IT TOOK YOU 2 YEARS, YOU GET OFF THE WEB RIGHT NOW OR NO INTERNET FOR A WEEK

>Logging on
>BEEP BLORP SHHHHHHHH
>"I'M ON THE PHONE GOD DAMN IT"

here in croatia shit is still like that :p

>disconnect with 40mb download at 95%
>days before download resuming
>get upset because the episode you almost finished will now have to be downloaded while you go to sleep and be watched after school tomorrow
>play some encarta mindmaze

OMG TRAUMATIC FLASHBACK

>>44578893
is it weird i kinda miss the sound?

GODDAMNIT WHY HASN'T THIS HOT ONLINE BITCH RESPONDED YET...

AOL KICKS ME OUT.

LOG BACK IN AND HOT ONLIEN BITCH WHO'S REALLY 7 YEARS YOUNGER THAN SHE SAYS SHE IS LOGGED OUT

FFFUUUDDGGGGEEE

>dialup
>dragonball z

u rang?

I nostalgia'd so hard.

....YES THIS THREAD AGAIN, I'M GOING TO GO BUY SOME DRAGON BALL Z FRUIT SNACKS FROM THE DOLLAR STORE IN THE BACK

oh hey don't mind me just reminding you how cool the internet used to be

>>44578893
ahhh the memories..

>>44579007
>implying that wasn't a guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_OGkAWFm9Y

not sure what's up with the whole bbc thing at the end. BUT HOLY FUCKING FLASHBACK

this and gamesages.com were the place to be.

And gamesdomain. they had that bitchin castle with all those online games.

You can relive the nostalgia right now. If you had AOL, you still have it. Why are you looking at me like that? It's not like AOL could be cancelled.

http://consumerist.com/2006/06/the-best-thing-we-have-ever-posted-reader-tries-to-cancel-aol.html

>>44579099
1996 was the first time i got the internet as well as owning my own computer. i even remember the first thing i dled - the opening sequence to the record of lodoss war tv series. fucking took nearly two and a half hours, looked like shit but i fell in love with the internet that very night.

I remember one day my dad broke down on the highway and couldn't call my mom because I was on the internet

When he got home he was fucking pissed

hay guise i got these things called roms from this site called plasticman you can play nes and snes games on you're compuetr lol

oh shit they sent some paper to my place saying i skipped school a lot ffuuuuuuuckk

>>44579200

oh god.

I've blocked so many important calls. My mom telling me she was broken down and needing me to call my father, my dad trying to get important information to my mom...

but hey I needed to download those mugen characters. Shit was so cash playing kof vs capcom in 2000.

>>44579161

Oh god nostalgia bomb. HAPPY FUCKING PUPPY

i remember going into my first aol chatroom and being afraid to log off because someone claimed to be a hacker and if anyone leaves the chatroom they'd get their account hacked.

>>44579200

To avoid stuff like that happening, I'd only get on really late at night, when no one would be calling.

>>44578813
GOD DAMN I HATED

...psssshhh..

BEE DOO BEE DOO

..cra cra cra...

*car alarm noises*

PSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH

*5 minutes later*

YOU'VE GOT MAIL!

*someone calls my house*

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>44579161
I downloaded some ultimate doom demo from there back in the day, turned out they'd uploaded the full version.

>>44579289

>tell friend to open this sweet game you just found
>send
>he says he is about to run it
>his computer constantly switches between windows messger service (or whatever win95/98 it was called. not messanger, the popup notifications)
>his CD tray keeps ejecting and opening
>ask him if he is enjoying the bitchin game

>>44578835

>>44579281
>>44579344
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Diane_Reitz
http://www.jenniverse.com/photo%20main.html

who knew your favorite website was run by the web 1.0 equivalent of chris chan.

Does anyone remember the first website they've every looked up?

Mine was google to search some Kingdom Hearts walkthrough(blame my youth)

>>44579261
>>44579314
>>44579335
>>44579200

Didn't any of you guys think about getting a phone line just for the internets? That's what my family did.

Oh, and did any of you pay for AOL? Back when time was charged by the hour, the time I used but didn't pay for because I used payment exploits was probably valued at several thousand dollars.

>>44579442

The official Diddy Kong Racing site.

>>44579335
I wish I could find a sound file of the AOL log in nonsense

Probably why I know anything at all about animals.

>>44579443
We were poor and couldn't afford another one. If not I would have.

>>44579439
>>44579439
SWEET FUCKING CHRIST! I feel dirty from visiting happypuppy now.

>>44579442

cheat codes for Battletoads and Double Dragon:

>>44579000
>play some encarta mindmaze

You have no idea how much I love you. I've been trying to remember the name of that game for MONTHS.

>shut off computer via power button
>switch on safe mode by accident on reboot.

You are now realizing who's voice they used for the stupid alerts back in the day.

I remember I'd always say that "high speed AOL" is an oxymoron.

>>44579442
>>44579443

>442
>443

>get on early internet
>find those last few hearts in lttp

fuck yeah gamesages.

>>44579617

Actually, it was possible. I still had an AOL account when I went to university. Logging in through the university T1 was actually quite fast for the time (~50KB/s). This was in 1997 before broadband was widespread.

>>44579650
Lurk more

>>44579723
I've seen it before, it just amazes me everytime

>>44579607
I FUCKING LOVE HER.

uncle patrick.

>>44579161
oooohhhhhh man gamesages was the best - before it got bought up by ign :(

>>44579585
Doing it wrong.

>>44579711
>1997
>internet connection 10x faster than the "higher-end" 56k of the time

I know I'm not the only person that read this guy's stuff.

http://serpent231.tripod.com/xgsolid.shtml

I remember when I discovered Nesticle. I would like "ZOMG I can play FF2 and FF3 now!" (this was before the translations were released).

Remember when everything had an AOL Keyword? I remember watching All That on Nick and then going to AOL Keyword Nick to play that flash game with Kenan Thompson in a bathtub

>>44579822

What part of "university T1" don't you understand?

>>44580029
Guess i ain't been usin dat internets lately HUH

>>44580029
i remember one time in a chatroom a person came in asking whether or not the sites they visited would turn up on their aol bill and like just kept freaking out. some of the people started yanking his chain and whatnot and we all had a good laugh.

i totally looked it up if that actually happened and was a little worried myself.

>>44579913

Oh, hi.

>>44580029

You gotta delete specific folders man, not the whole fucking thing. That way they'll never catch on.

>>44580082

early internet trolling was the best trolling

I got DSL in 2004 & that was my first internet. Sucks for you people.

>>44579913

For awhile, AOL keyword "partners" allowed you to access internal marketing information. AOL's security wasn't very good.

>>44580159

I wasn't that clever as a kid, I think I just kept installing and unistalling netscape at one point.