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acesxhigh posted...

I've turned 25 now and when I started posting on PotD I was probably about 15.

I was older than 25 when I started posting here, and that was about 16 years ago.

I remember when a friend of mine was weirded out by the fact that people born after 1990 could drive, and now I'm living in a world where people who weren't even born during 9/11 are almost legally allowed to drink. There are YouTubers I watch at least somewhat regularly who are young enough to be my children. I have shirts in my closet that are older than you are.

You haven't even begun to plumb the depths of feeling old yet.



rjsilverthorn posted...

Yeah, when I was 15 the internet didn't exist...

Unless you're over 50 (which is possible, we've got some old fucks here), the Internet existed before you were born.

The World Wide Web wasn't invented until the early 90s, and general Internet usage didn't become popularized until the mid-to-late 90s, but the Internet as a governmental resource and tool for educational use in colleges has been around since the early 70s. Most people didn't know that at the time, though, so a lot of people mistakenly assume the Internet really only "started" in the late 90s (around the time of AOL).



DDirtyDastard posted...

When I was 15 we still had dial-up

I still remember telnetting into a local BBS in high school. That's where my friends and I downloaded cracked copies of the original Doom and games like The Dark Half and Spellcasting 301.

When most of you guys think about modems, you're still thinking about the little box that makes weird noises. But I'm just on the cusp of being able to remember when these were a thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AByemfK_qD4

And this was from 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQQCzh_z2Y
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