How did millenials play computer games back in the day? Did they have to use their dads pc?
>>737578696Yes. And you constantly had to convince your boomer dad that AoE II was not a virus.
Yes, and if they were using it you played your nintendo instead.
My dad was into PCs so I got a hand-me-down for my own room when I was 12
>dad had to boot up Little Big Adventure 2 for me every time cause I couldn't remember the DOS command to mount the CD
most of my friends had a PC in a shared office, and ideally you'd have 2 phonelines, and youd be gaming on speakerphone. the internet was still so pure, and WHITEi want to go back
>>737578696ASS2ASS
>>737578936>Browse Limewire for musicResults:Metallica.EXEMetalicaR@ygold.png (this guy got arrested btw)Metalicalinkinpark.mp3Mymetalicajourney.txt
>>737578696I used the "Encarta" card, and "this is the future" card, you also had the media pushing the narrative of "this is a basic skill your kid its going to need" I'm from a third world shithole and it worked, so I imagine the same would happen on developed countries.
>>737578936Then your bitch sister downloaded "free music" from random Messenger links and when the PC shit the bed she told dad that it was that "AoE II virus" you put on the computer. While your mother was screaming about why you were even playing on schooldays when you weren't allowed to (you weren't, she mistook the desktop wallpaper for an actual game).
>>737578696>How did millenials play computer games back in the day? Did they have to use their dads pc?yep, we had the family pc in the living room, shit times
>used parents’ PC>didn’t understand shit about RAM or graphics stuff>neither did they>just accepted that Lego Island was supposed to run at 5 FPS
my dad caught me google image searching pics of Pamela Anderson once
>>737578696My family had a Packard Bell computer and I got to play Doom on it as well as ZZT and eventually NES emulation.Also, Jennifer Connelly IRL is part fiend. Avoid her.
I think Phenomena SUCKS
>>737579616yeah she's an old hag in it
>>737579217Just googling that name will put you on a list.https://www.justice.gov/file/411071/dl
>>737578696We didn't play a lot of them. Not when dial up was a thing. Just entered chatrooms and chatted up supposed women. Also racking up an ISP bill of over $1000
>>737578696Yea we had a family PC.You didn't need to be reachable on a computer 24/7 back in the day so we could just ask our parents to let us use the computer for a few hours.
>>737579686Looks like a boy.
>first computer with internet, around 98/99>family goes online for the first time>little brother types in x men .com>its gay porn
>>737579102
>>737579367>I used the "Encarta" card, and "this is the future" cardYeah, these were the go-to arguments. And I'm still kind of baffled how my dad went along with these, since he was such a stifler with everything else.>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?I'm a xennial and my parents knew nothing about computers. I had to figure out everything myself. But that was cool, too. I just wish we could have afforded more/better hardware.
>>737579020same but it was a laptop he let me "borrow" indefinetly because I would always install tons of games and fill his pc with them
>>737579902Kek remember whitehouse.com?
>>737578936tbf to mine he was one of the many traumatized by AOL billing disputes
>>737580005>>737579902for me it was blacksnake.com and all the ways you could convince your unsuspecting friends to go there
I remember I had to download patches for my friends cause my family was the first one with broadband in the village (100kb/s!)
>>737579953>Yeah, these were the go-to arguments. And I'm still kind of baffled how my dad went along with these, since he was such a stifler with everything else. They just wanted a better future for their children, my dad started working at age 12, barely knew how to read or write, they wanted their children to be "someone"
>>737580005we had a DO NOT GO TO WHITEHOUSE.COM FOR RESEARCH sign lmao
>>737579415Don't forget Mom's chain emails.
>>737578696Got my first PC in 1997. Still remember my very first games - Theme Hospital, Blood, Age of Empires, Myth: The Fallen Lords, Baldur's Gate, Dune 2000.
>>737578696We had dialup internet way longer than you would've thought. And for the longest time it took up the phone line, so your family couldn't receive calls while you were doing stuff online.
>>737580212>Theme HospitalDid you do the secret rat level?
>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?yes aka the "family computer"
>>737579367Wtf is Encarta?
>>737580246Damn, if only we had some sort of site that can answer a question like that....
Damn man, for like 10+ years I only played the games that were on gaman magazine CDs, which were usually big games from 3 years prior and a bunch of shareware shit
>>737580246It was one of those educational CD-ROM things. Kind of like a Wikipedia, but for offline use.
>>737578696It is miraculous to me that I managed to build a PC in the early 2000s from mail order parts when I would have had no chance at things like flashing a bios or setting ram speeds. Between PCpartpicker and youtube there is now no problem that takes more than five minutes to solve and I still get a little nervous, but back then I was a naked baby in the woods. The machine was probably running at like half its real specs but I had no frame of reference back then to tell.
>>737578696Family PC in the living room until you were about 14-15 and lucky enough to get your own as a present or something
>>737580212good stackwas dune 2000 the one with the vehicles that could disguise as fauna? am i on crack?
>>737580350I'm 35, upgraded my PC a lot of times since I was 12 (basically Ship of Theseus'd it at least 3 times over) and I have no fucking clue what flashing a bios or setting ram speeds isJust plug shit in and go lel
only rich kids had useable pcs before 2005
>>737579686Where's the part where the MC peeps on her naked ass
>>737578696That, at HS/College or you went to a cyber cafe
>>737578696I'm late millennial but my mom and exstepdad played MOHAA, Quake 3, CSS and later wow. So yeah I used theirs until I got my own.
>>737580529>exstepdad
>>737579415MY GOD READING THIS IS BEYOND EVILHOW ABUSIVE AND CONTROLLING PARENTS WERELUCKILY IT WILL END FOREVER
>>737578696In the attic left alone with a windows xp cd next to me. Good times.
>>737580246As the other anon described, it was a card that came with every new computer that was talking about the perks of using a computer. It had just a handful of points, but carefully selected for maximum effect, so anytime an adult was going on about some MUH BOOMER PROBLEMS bullshit you took out the card (provided you had saved it and your dumb boomer parents hadn't thrown it away) and if they were able to read they would be hit with the full force of computer authority and because boomers love authority that was usually enough to buy some computer time.There was a kid at my school who was able to source them from somewhere and sold them to kids who lost theirs.
>>737579841>You didn't need to be reachable on a computer 24/7 back in the day so we could just ask our parents to let us use the computer for a few hours.Me mum had a strict 1 hour timeslot to use the computer to maximize the amount of time spent fighting for the computer
>>737578696Nice AI slop.
>>737580313>Kind of like a Wikipedia, but for offline use.You know there's a word for this, right?
>>737580416No, I don't recall such a unit in the game.
>>737580647locally trained LLM?
>>737580647Dad I can't click book
>>737580475>rich kidsthere was tons of salvage and pc specs were all within range on it before the masses learned how to even use a computer, you just outed yourself as a secondary
>>737580647If you joke is "dictionary", it doesn't work, because CD-ROMs were the cool new MULTIMEDIA thing. Encarta (and other similar software) thus included sounds and video, not just text.
>>737580557Yupp they broke like 4-5yrs ago iirc.
>>737580475this is true because it was me. had a nice office with 2 PCs, for me and my sister, and both our PCs had voodoo2s. LAN'ing unreal tournament in like 99
>early 2000's>FREE army (recruitment) fps>its actually decent AND FREE>put in my actual birthday>YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO PLAY, GOODBYE>no idea how to bypass>never played it
>>737580416No, that's RA2's Mirage Tank.
>>737580753Was he more fun to get molested by than her other flings?
>>737578696the family computer it was kino
>>737580743He meant "encyclopedia", you dumb fucking retard
Downloading all those viruses taught me how to fix computers. Like, these days, you never see any viruses. Back then it was weird if you didn't have one.
>>737578696what do you mean retard. i'm a zoomer and i used my dad's pc to play pc games
>>737578696I went to my friends with PS and PC
>>737580246It was an interactive gamified encyclopedia. Came with pretty much any brand name prebuilt PC back in the 90s.
>>737580841You don't even remember Teen Titans Go kiddo. Back to Fortnite.
>>737580836>Downloading all those viruses taught me how to fix computersSame>format C drive
>>737580705I've noticed that's people applying modern PC logic to old PCs.Near nobody was trying to get an original, brand new PC each year just to get the newest titles.That's why videogame consoles were that popular
>>737580823Same fucking thing, asshole.
>>737579521I remember playing Rock Raiders back in the day and the whole thing flickered like a strobe light on our Windows 95 with no discrete graphics card. I just rolled with it and played the entire game that way. Kids will sure put up with a lot.
>>737580765>>737580675ah, yea. dune had the stealth bikes
>>737580760>>YOU ARE TOO YOUNG TO PLAY, GOODBYE>>no idea how to bypassCheckmate, age-verification lawmakers.
>>737580803Meds
>internet breaks>do everything possible to fix it including turning the router off and on >it works>caught watching porn>parents install porn blocker>learn how to bypass it>little brother gets horrible grades>parents take away the fucking mouse>learn how to do everything without a mouse
>>737579415jesus christ, that wasn't me thankfully but several of my friends back then had this exact thing, it was WILD
>>737580905A dictionary and an encyclopedia are NOT the same thing. Are you an actual black gorilla jungle nigger? You must be the lowest IQ retard in this entire thread, and I can't even call you an ESL, because every ESL knows the difference between a dictionary and an encyclopedia.
>>737578696you figured it out yourself and pestered your parents to help drive you to pick up whatever you needed, i had complete dial-up internet and a desktop to waste my life on the chins and newgrounds already setup in the early 00s in my early teens as a poor
>>737579553ZZT - the Millenial's Roblox
>>737578696My grandma had a gateway and when I'd visit her I'd play Roller Coaster Tycoon on it.Other than that I'd go to the library and use their computers.
>>737580475lmao poverty ass all middle class people had a family computer by 98
>>737580883>>737580836even the virus' were PURE back then... most of them were just there to fuck with you because they could. the internet was so much better before 'the east' got online
>>737581047They are BOOKS! While Encarta was a state of the art multimedia experience!Go whine to the anon who didn't even know WTF Encarta was in the first place. Fucking retard, thread derailing autist.
>>737581106Did you also get it from a box of cereal?
>>737578696>their dadanon i...
>>737578936Did you also get it from a box of cereal?
>>737580836My first memory of tech support was trying to delete a desktop stripper off of someone's computer.>>737580905>>737581047I was hoping you two would stop fighting and kiss already.
>>737581248>>737581212>>737581106Nigger what
>>737581212Yeah wrong pic obviously
>>737581047My mom spend somewhere around $1500 in 90s cash on a set of encyclopedia britannica
>>737579415>she mistook the desktop wallpaper for an actual gamekek boomers are so retarded jesus christ. Im so lucky my boomer parents were fucking idiots and didnt care what I did as long as it wasn't illegal.
>>73758130850 volume encyclopedias were the rage in the 80s and 90s. My family also had the entire domestic encyclopedia. I think some of those books have never been opened.
>>737581308My parents got scammed in the 90s for a big encyclopedia set too. To be fair they were East Germans just experiencing capitalism for the first timeAnd the books had gold paint at the top!
>>737581152The Internet when it was just burgers, some Euros, and the Japanese was the golden age. Phones and wifi letting every retard in the world access it 24/7 was the end.
>>737581518Many euro countries had their own internet. I remember French mininet
>>737578696Online in the uk things were made easier by these proto lobby system app's that catered to various games, was good (and was potentially cash)
>download limewire>use limewire to download limewire pro
who here /emule/?
>>737581765>Wait 2 weeks to download a movieMe
>>737580070I remember using a download manager (dinosaur something something might have been related to Mozilla). All it did was break up a download into multiple sections so my 5kb/s internet could retrieve the parts slightly faster. Downloading Age of Empires maps took hours and even more if they had custom assets like sound effects and music.
>>737578696> How did millenials play computer games back in the day?With a pc you retarded motherfucker, how did you think we played pc games?
>>737579902For me it's buffhomos.com
>>737578696My parents didn't use the family computer that much so it wasn't that big of an issue.
>>737582101It was this and the dinosaur part were the eyes
>>737581765I remember the IT guy my dad hired for his office told me about emule. I felt like a fucking hacker when i started using it. My dad ended up catching porn on the guy's browsing history in the office lmao
>>737582128>post that barely managed to read half the OP>m.jpgheh
My family got a PC in 1998 but only got convinced to get internet in fucking 2004. So it was just me and my brother begging and whining for 6 fucking years to get internet while we went to internet cafes, libraries and school PC lab to access the internet.My parents literally didn't understand the usage of the internet.>what do you use it for?Please dad, I need it for information on websites, multi-player games and talking to friends!>just go to the library for information from books>you can invite your friends and play multi-player on your console you have 2 controllers for your playstation>we have a phone and you can call your friends whenever you need to speak to themIt was very very hard to convince them of the utility of the internet. I genuinely think the only reason my dad was sold on it was because he realized he could watch porn on it because he just decided out of nowhere for no particular reason to get it and got me and my brother to set it up. Worst was that we weren't even poor and my dad bought top of the line hardware for us because he realized how cool the newest games were and would also play them. Especially when he figured out the emulators would save him money so we had a Nintendo 64 simulator in the 90s and played super Mario 64 on the PC.I thank my IT career to my dad and having to maximize my limited time in the library and internet cafes to pirate as much shit as possible in as few minutes as possible to play at home.
>>737578696because of pfds I early on got my own computer. it was a gateway. even did the research to get a graphics card i think it was a geforce 2 lol
>>737580495Body double according to IMDB.
>>737582313>pirate as much shit as possible in as few minutesI hope you share my pain of copying a "game" into my 3" floppy disc, being excited on the way home only to realize all I copied was the desktop shortcut and wondering why the game wouldn't start.
>>737578696My dad had 3 PC in our house office so I could always play coop games with frens, very comfy time
I remember when my dorm had shitty wifi and I had to download porn on my laptop while in the communal computer roomThis was in 2013 btw
>>737582576Damn that is comfy. One of my best childhood friends' dad was an engineer for the navy and had tons of tech shit. He had four PCs all networked together and we spent an ungodly amount of hours playing LAN games we were otherwise too retarded to do ourselves. He was also a savage alcohol and beat the shit out of my friend when we were around, it is kind of lols in hindsight.
>>737582286I read the post, how disabled are you to even ask that question? What were we playing pc games on anything other than a pc? A lot of peoples fist gaming experiences were on pc in my generation. And ask such a fucking stupid, brain dead question
>>737579079>LBA2KINOOOOOO
>>737578696Our home pc was dogshit but my dad kept buying games that wouldn't run on it. Eventually around 2000 he started working at a friends house and THAT guy had a pc that ran them just fine. I played the shit out of heavy gear every time I went over there. It wasn't until 2003 ish I got my own computer the could run games alright(30fps). It was a prebuilt piece of shit but it made me realize how much better pc gaming was compared to consoles. After that I started building my own like I still do now.
>>737582858>doubling downYour kind doesn't deserve the internet.
>>737582858Just say "very carefully" the next time, it's the exact same content without revealing yourself to be a phonezoomie who actually cannot read rather than making a joke
>>737583007Sorry that youre a complete idiot. I played my pc games with a hammer and chisle, what pc? Fucking dumbass.
>>737583085My first place was an old Compaq back in the late 90s. It was my personal one, the first pc I put a GPU in with bigger ram. Don't call me a fucking zoomer
>>737583215Pc, I mean, but you know what I meant
>>737578936>Son, do know why "jenny mccarthy playboy" is in my search history?
>>737578696this pic doesn't look real
>break family computer>no recovery disc>I'm the only person in the house who learns to use DOSIt's my PC now!
>>737583294>son can you tell me what "bandage varies is?"Like we didnt find out he was searching for pics of kids, incest, and nudist searches on the family computer. Filling it with viruses and blaming it on me. Oh, and the "child vaginal medical", kids bathing, stuff he'd search on Google and blame it on me. My mom knew, thats why she got me my own. Wed always find stuff llike that. Why am I telling you this?
>>737578696If you were me, you stole enough parts from the computer tech office in middle school to build a ratbox pentium III rig in 2000.UT99, Tribes 1, and HL Mods all day
>>737583516>bondage variesI was just a kid and didn't know what hentai was but looked it up, lmao.
>>737583516Because you're a blogposting nigger, fuck off
>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?No. I always had my own pc for gaming while my father insisted to have a laptop, in spite of never ever picking it up from his desk.The big issue was 56k internet fucking with the phone.
>>737583604BONDAGE FARIES, HOLY FUCK>>737583612Yeah, but I dont know, that memory came back talking about old pcs. I loved mine, and modding it was so fun. Especially being able to see the better graphics, rhe better sound, and being stoked on it.
>>737578696We had to sacrifice a floppy disk to the machine god to get faster internet and blasphemy against him was punishable by beheading
>>737583671Hahaha, when your parents would get on the phone and you could hear them talking when they picked up the phone. And aol would kick you. And the times you'd boot up and sign in, "ANON, IM ON THE PHONE", fuck..I just wanted to laugh at funnyjunk, new grounds, and joecartoon. Good times
>>737583819The old floppy disk, I remember. All those games in elementary were on floppy. Infamously, the Oregon trial that id play the hell out of.
>>737583819>>737584093>They call it a floppy disk>is actually rigid plastic
>>737584309Because it is actually "floppy" on the inside. I broke one open one time for science.
>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?Legitimately, yes. He has Command and Conquer and Civilization 2.
>>737580905its not hahahahahaah
And the old lime wire exe. Of a random song that rape your pc in the ass. [Linkin park/ numb,360k,].exe.] omg I live this song!>the family pc catches on fucking fire
>>737578696>video games were always my passion growing up>dad was terrified of them. simply couldn't understand them and that was a problem for the control freak he was.>mum was a sweet simpleton. genuinely thought they were devil too though thanks to my dad probably>still fondly remember borrowing red alert 2 off a friends copy of red alert 2 and spending an entire afternoon destroying an easy enemy with 1 Apocalypse tank with 3 FPS on my dads computer. they were the worst fucken parents. materially they did well, but they had no fucking idea. spent most my childhood trying to shame/guilt me out of playing so many games, while still buying them for my birthday and shit. they then bought me my own computer for my room to help me 'study'. of course I would play computer games, and they still continued to try and control me.literally spent most my developing years hiding my passion from people because I thought they were inherently 'bad'. struggled developing romantic relationships and finding new hobbies because I genuinely internalized anything I like was wrong/bad.Anyone relate to this?
>>737580475Nah, i was middle class as fuck when that was a thing, lower end of it even in leaf land, and we had a PC by 1999 or 2000
>>737584596Yes, it is! And I though about it a little more. In finnish it even goes like this:Dictionary = sanakirja.Encyclopedia = tietosanakirja.They are basically the same thing. And I don't see why anyone would disagree. Both are books, both contain knowledge. Just in a slightly different format.
>>737578696dad's pc, then runescape client on my own laptopt and websites like addictinggamesthen i got a ps2 and used thatmuch later on i played world of warcraft on the family pc
>>737578696Family PC, or bought / got gifted our own
It was limewire, and the one with the ladybug logo, forgot its name. I do remember Kazaa.
>>737578696i had a cool uncle that got me some decent comp leftover from his workshop so i could run point n clicks. didn't really care for FPS'es and still don't to this day. then around the turn of the millennium parents started buying a new stronger PC every year or so for work that i could use to run RTS games.
>>737584948And the pirate bay before it got busted/ran by the feds.
>>737584948>>737585021Bearshare, Nobody?
>>737584961My uncle is a pc guru, he was the one that helped my with my first real build. We smoked weed and had McDonald's. :D, good memory.
>>737585109Vaguely, but I dont remember using it.
>2007, come home after school>drug dealing wigger neighbor broke into our house, stole parents jewelry, other valuables, and all my consoles + games>left pc alone though>mom's friend's husband gifts me half life 2 on pc as a consolation present>the fuck is this, you have to install software to play your games?>2026, now a huge pc fagthanks, wigga
>>737585310>The wigger in question
>>737580475I had a rich uncle instead
>>737585310Remember having to look up steam tags/numbers just to play a bit of CS and CS:GO? Some Gary's mod too
>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?Yes although he passed on his 386 to me when he got the 486. I preferred playing on his machine though. He died in 97, and the PC my mom bought the next year was specifically mine. Shit had a zip drive, windows 98 and a 10GB HDD (I don't actually remember if it was 5GB or 10GB). Doing a full install of Diablo 2 and having it take up so much space was ridiculous! Upgraded what parts I could on that PC but windows 98 was basically untenable in 2003 when I my first PC.
>>737585543Wild you even remember your set up. I had an ati GPU. I looked sweet, had a dragon on it or something like that. That's all I can remember
>>737584713Yes and based on what you said it sounds like your parents aren't ill meaning, just not technically apt. Computers are still abstract to boomers, many refuse to move from paper. As a kid you immediately take to technology faster and you intuitively learn from it as you have no past experiences to draw from, leading to a deeper natural understanding than your parents could have unless they are in some technical career themselves. I didn't develop a complex like you did, but my parents were much the same. So many dumbass situations like:>Browsing the internet and playing web games>mcafee AV included with the computer automatically scans later and finds 240 viruses (all adware, not real viruses but were picked up by all AVs back then)>get punished for compromising dad's bank account and banned from PC
>>737582257Fuck me, I remember downloading the starcraft demo took 20 hours on dialup for me with this thing.>>737585658Same it was a compaq, came with MotoRacer. Played the shit out of that game, warcraft 2 and mechwarrior 2 (and expansions). There was nothing like getting on kali, heat.net or mplayer.net and styling on people.
But if i had the money, like everyone always says, I'd have a bad ass pc. My series x, meh, its close. But its not like a serious pc set up would be. And BTW, no fucking annoying led lights.
>>737579716>https://www.justice.gov/file/411071/dl>File Name: real underage fuck cum baby 2yo rape crys Babyshivid husssfanr@ygold pthc-2Yo Toddler Naked on Mans Lap (Pthc Pedo Babyfuck} 1yo 2yo3yo 4yo.mpegjesus lolbut it sounds like they were actually distributing it, not just searching a term. thank you for making me look up government cp documents on TOR again only to find out there still aren't lists created out of lawful activity
>>737585543Nah it was still usable in 2003.Pretty sure I was using 98 until around 2007, when I made the switch to 2k Pro. And even that was because I was forced to use one specific piece of hardware with drivers that simply wouldn't work on 9x
>>737578696We had a family computer, and then I got my own in middle school so both me and my dad could play games.
>>737581007>>little brother gets horrible grades>>parents take away the fucking mouse>>learn how to do everything without a mousebased, did you end up successful in life?
>>737578696There were house PCs. My dad was in IT, so our PC always had modern hardware and a GPU. He pirate a bunch of movies and stuff. The PC was in a central location in the house and served all of the family. Movies, games, my dad's weird Disney film satire porn, all was on it.We moved and I got my own room with the old "Movie Computer", which was our graphically strongest PC with an independent GPU and loads of RAM. The living room was where the new "Movie Computer" went and in the corridor between my room and the living room was a nook with my dad's desk and PC (the strongest in the house).He had soft cases full of burned CDs with foreign TV shows, English subtitled anime, and pirated software.
>>737585757>1st year out of school, doing apprenticeship>come home from school, younger sis on pc i bought>kick her off>mum comes in screeching, picks up my keyboard and smashes repeatedly on desk>key pieces flying everywhere, just staring in shock>decide to move out on on bellow minimum wageand they wonder why 2 out of there 3 siblings live on the opposite side of the country. they chill now, but my god i can't say I love them.
>>737586330It was usable for some people yeah, but not for me. I couldn't deal with it, aside from stability issues The GPUs I could pop in were absolutely outdated. Black and white had already been a miserable experience, warcraft 3 and then kotor on that machine along with being 640x480 was just no worth it for me. By then I had been programming shit for like 7 /8 years and even the projects I was working on were struggling on the win98 machine.
>>737578696>Dark hair>Pale skin>Place eyes My heart can't take it
>>737586758wtf is a place eye
>>737586758place eyes?
>>737578696Imagine you're cute daughter using your PC and shlicking herself to your video games and getting your mouse wet and staining your chair over time
>>737580070KEK same shit but with music, since we had 300kb/s at the time. I hate every single bar owner in my old home town for having spend nights downloading their shitty music and burning them in. At least these cunts paid for the CDs.
>>737578696>>737578936I had my own computer actually. My dad worked at a computer company though (Toshiba)
>nobody in the thread realizes OP is AI.grim. grim fucking shit.
>>737578696'99 Zoomie but yeah. I remember my mom kept uninstalling Sims 2 because she thought it was making the computer run slow so I'd have to wait a couple hours for it to reinstall every time. In fairness maybe the storage was full or something. but I don't know, I was like 6 years old and was just a little idiot that would box off my sim's baby so it would sit and cry and my sims would stand around complaining about it.
>>737586680What made that bitch think she had the right to destroy your computer that you bought?
>>737587017Link any post seriously discussing OP's image.
>>737578696>bauhaus posterultrabased
>>737578696>Did they have to use their dads pc?Usually you'd have a family pc.
>>737581308I bought a used one last year for my nephew, my brother called me annoyed because some dude dropped 100lbs box in front of his yard and told to deliver there. I wanted it be a surprise.
>>737578696GOOD MORNING SAAR!
>>737587351Why did it have to be a surprise for your brother too, retard?
>>737578696how do kids do anything you turbo retard? how did people get nourishment? eating their dad's food?????? wtfff???????
>>737586813>>737586847I can't contain myself, butter fingers slip around and type wrong.
>>737587458So he wouldn't rat it out to him?! I also planned to arrive at his house first and receive the package myself, but my flight got delayed.
>>737588094>tell brother to keep it a secret but to take care of the packageWow so hardYou're a fucking retard. Don't send giant packages to someone else's house unannounced
>>737587034it was a fun childhood anon
Yeah, I shared a PC at home. Our first PC at home was around 1997 and I played Quake on it. Later I got AOE games. But I have used a PC before that. My cousin had Doom on his which I tried and also a Lego game and Tycoon game. Probably a few others I don't remember, maybe like Sims. And in school, the earliest computers I saw had Oregon trail on a Macintosh and later on I remember in an art class using maybe windows 95 which had some clip art program which I was messing around with. I think it wasn't until 2002-3 when I got my own PC for my room and we switched away from dialup.>>737579367Encarta was fun to use. I don't know if it was part of Encarta but I think it had some games or interactable things to draw trees with which I remember spending a lot of time on. And learned a lot about music for some reason, history of Elvis and other people/stuff lol
>>737586758>>737586813Kinda looks like a dark haired Diana
IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE AT YOUR FINGERTITS!
>>737588176Nah it was fine in the end, the kid loved it. And I knew he wouldn't accept the gift if I told him in advance. My entire family is retarded to some degree, I'm known for being the weird uncle already.
>>737589241TAKE A SHIT ON THE INTERNET
>>737586813>>737586758Zoomers would go ape shit over her laugh lines
>mom checked my browser history and found swtickle
>>737589518what do you mean
>>737589518>Going apeshit over one of her features that makes her prettyWhat's wrong with these niggers? Even now, old, she's still cute.
>>737578696>How did millenials play computer games back in the day? Did they have to use their dads pc?Is this a rhetorical question?
>>737578696My dad already had an Atari 2600 and a Super Nintendo as far back as I could remember. And he got a PC for our home in like 1992. He installed a ton of games on the PC, and would even play them with me.For Christmas he got me a N64 the year it came out. And I remember I worked summer jobs, did chores, and mowed lawns to buy my own PS2 and build my own shitty Windows 98 PC.
>>737589609>He doesn't know how fucked the zoomer mind isoh sweet jesus
>>737578696>born 1991 >fast forward to 1999, I am 8 years old >dad is very autistic and gets obsessed with things >he's reading some tech magazines and they have a segment on computers >"oh shit, I need that">he grabs me and his wallet, tells mom "I'll be back" and we fuck off in our old station wagon to the mall >basically run to the electronics store>dad picks out a Dell Dimension XPS R400 (400 MHz Intel Pentium II) >also bought a bunch of software, accessories and a bunch of games >drove home, installed it We spent the next two years basically glued to that thing, playing games and learning how to use it. He upgraded in 2002 and I got that old rig. Built my first gaming PC in 2005.
>>737578696My dad bought me my own PC when I was 10, had an AMD K6-2 and a 3dfx Voodoo2 and 32MB of RAM which I later upgraded to an Athlon XP and GF4 Ti 4400, my brother got the SNES and PS2, I got an N64 and a modded PS1 but I shared my consoles because I was more interested in PC gamesEventually they got my brother his own PC as well but it was a huge piece of shit with onboard graphics and a bent motherboard.
>>737578696We had to share the living room PC. When you have a family as large mine. basically that meant you only time to use it for homework. Neighbor was very generous. He had boxes and boxes of computer stuff in his basement, a lot of it was old stuff from his work they were just throwing away. His rule was we use anything in the boxes but we had build it ourselves. He wanted us to learn computers so he always made sure we had at least a working CPU. Everything else if it doesn't work just garb something else. We built like 5 working computers out of scrap. My family got 3 and our friend the other 2. We networked them together and played a stupid amount of Warcraft 2. Despite Warcraft 3 being the better game. We still kept playing warcraft 2.
>>737578696Yes, mostly, but I got my first own PC when I was around 10. It was a 286 or 386 from the garbage dump and could play SkiFree, and Doom as long as you reduced the screen/resolution to the size of a postage stamp.After that it was some kind of Pentium/Voodoo thing I think. Glide was a major pain in the ass. Half the games didn't support it at all, and with the ones that did there was often some kind of issue getting it to run in that mode. They had invented the integrated/dedicated GPU issue of laptops 15 years before everyone else, truly ahead of their time.
>Mr Harcourt let me take one of the junkers from class home>emulating Pokemon Red at super low fps on Windows 3.1>monitor on the floor because I didn't have a desk in my room
I clicked a porn site ad by mistake and knew nothing of what I was seeing. All I knew is that when my perants found out I couldn't use the PC for months. It developed a pretty scared attitude towards nudity for me in childhood.
>>737578696Ahh... Konoru-chan, desu....
>>737578696Yes, and my dad needed it for work so it was sometimes hard to find time to play PC games, but eventually we got more computers. Then it became a struggle because my dad needed the internet for work when we wanted to play online games. It was pretty interesting how despite being so expensive, PCs were actually pretty commonplace at least in my neighborhood everyone had one or two even.
>>737578696yeah my dad had a computer for work and it couldnt run diablo 2 well. i got like 3 fps on it but was so stoked to play diablo 2 i still beat the first act until we finally upgraded to a pentium 4.
>>737579102>>737579906>>737582806>Jennifer Connelly prepared for her role by doing "daily sessions" of the infamous "ass to ass" scene with an unnamed female acquaintance [3] Director Darren Aronofsky informed Connelly that the scene was going to be simulated, therefore practicing the act for real was unnecessary [4] Connelly insisted the scene be "real." After much back and forth, Aronofsky relented, and the scene was filmed unsimulated. [5]
>>737578696bauhaus sux
for me it was the gamespy server browser
Oldfag here. Got my first computer (C64) second hand from a school. That was a good way to get a cheap PC because they would sell off their old ones whenever they replaced them. Pirated all the games, obviously. I got most of my console games and movies when Blockbuster sold off old stock. My NES was dirt cheap second hand from someone who moved overseas. I salvaged my first TV from my grandparent's garbage. They threw it out because it was ancient and no longer worked when connected to an antenna, but on a hunch I tried tuning in a console and VCR and it still worked for that. These opportunities would present themselves because back in the day kids would go outside and interact with the world and people in it.
>>737594508There were much better options.
>>737594047>finally upgraded to a pentium 4.Fuck yeah. I went from a worthless Celeron with a Voodoo card to a P4 with a Geforce 4200 ti and when I first saw Warcraft 3 running smooth as silk on max settings I practically wept.
