.Damn good game. I can hear all the sound FX now.
someone reverse engineered it :) https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
you can play it here: https://pinball.alula.me/
We did competitive high scores, essentially we had pinball at home. Up to seven different people used the same computer. That poor device has seen more virus(es) than dottor house. I have tales worthy of it and tech support. Like that time a trojan duplicated itself up to 14 times in a few minutes. I solved that issue because I wouldn’t be able to play flash games otherwise, you see very important things. You might remember ‘this copy of windows is counterfeit’. Or whatever the message was. Nobody ever paid for the old office package. We had it.
Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.
I’m old enough to remember there are two kinds of taking turns.
- we all wait our turn to put something in the search field together (ours was altavista).
- we all take turns going outside or watching TV until it was our turn not together.
Did you look at bobs?
After the image loaded line by line for about 15 minutes, indeed!
I had a 1.4MB floppy of gold, and I learned to silence the modem.
Internet was good when it was shackled to computers and wasn’t spread everywhere via smartphones.
Commenting this from smartphone.
But then what would I do while out for a walk, be alone with my thoughts and observant of my surroundings??
Sent from my smartphone while out for a walk.
Yeah, the ubiquity of it made it even more attractive to advertisers. Even more attractive when everything went from being individual forums to Facebook groups or subreddits.
Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.
Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.
People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.
The internet used to be magnificent.
I found a site recently, called Cloudhiker that’s a Stumbleupon Replacement
I used to love that so much
Wasn’t there a button on Google that did that, too?
Not exactly, but there was an “I’m feeling lucky” button which was similar enough.
Web rings!
I’ve come across a still-living webcomics webring the other day, made me feel nostalgic :')
“I’m feeling lucky” or something like that?
I haven’t uses google in so long, I thought that was still there. Oh well, all the fun stuff is gone
Sure Ask Jeeves did this too.
I’ll Ask Jeeves before I ever ask ChatGPT
What about a Hot bot?
Edit: I went and checked and the old hotbot.com has been turned into an AI search. Eww
Lemmy is the same thing, but with scrolling, and comments.
Wasn’t that just yesterday? God I’m old.
I remember being 10 and we’d head over to the one kid who had a computer’s house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we’d manage to find Newgrounds. We’d spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.
Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.
Stickdeath.com was wild, I loved it. I rewatched some recently and did not remember how racist they could be though.
So much racism. I think the rational was that it was ‘fine’ because they were making fun of ‘the bad ones’ and not regular minorities (Thanks Chris Rock)
Newgrounds was an amazing treasure trove of creativity and games.
I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.
I miss the old internet so much.
yeah, and that a significant portion of users had their own little websites and/or blogs. I spent ages browsing those tiny iframe sites built with fancy Photoshop brushes and incomprehensible navigation menus.
I actually got into web design by making a Pokemon fansite with animated gifs on every page xD
It’s not the same but this reminds me of it:
Thanks for the link!
I remember when my mum used to say “Don’t bother your dad, he’s on the internet” like it was this big important thing. Not “He’s checking his email”, or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.
“Surfing the web” is one of my favourite phrases in that it’s completely meaningless now despite there being far more of it happening than when the phrase was created
“Are you surfing the web, son?”
No, just Lemmy.
I feel like “doom scrolling” has replaced web surfing.
That’s because he was looking at porn and jerking off.
Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.
Also, don’t pick up the phone because we only have one line
This was a time before youtube.
Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we’d ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn’t be?
I do 😅 I guess we’re the same amount old
Old enough that game consoles don’t exist, but young enough to be protected by child labor laws.
I climbed a water tower at an abandoned warehouse and got attacked by wasps at the top. Good times!
Not a thing to do, but talk to you.
Not a thing to do out in the street.
Ooow! Yeah!Exactly 👌
I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends’ houses
Who had a CD ROM drive and a sound blaster? Doom was a whole new dimension with it. It was real and very scary!
I saw a yt vid I can’t find right now of someone doing a comparison between sound blaster and this other high end speaker (also available at the time) that I didn’t even know existed, and now cant remember the name of. Apparently a lot of those dos games had really deep music scores that those of us with just sound blaster never got to hear.
Edit: I think this is what I saw https://youtu.be/wUtWbb8hAh8
CD-ROM with lots of shareware programs. First two levels of Doom, before I got it from somewhere else. Had a few original bought games but most was pirated. Before LAN parties, you came to a friends house with your computer, monitor, everything, and connected via serial cable and parallel cable - first mentioned to play games, second one to copy files.
I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe
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I remember typing in code from a gaming magazine because there was no storage. You turn off your computer and it’s gone.
Worst part was when your triple checked everything and it still wouldn’t run only to get the corrections in the magazine next month.
I remember when I was 10 going to radio shack and watching a guy who worked there type in programs in basic on a ts-80 computer. Thought it was cool. There was no Internet then.
*TRS-80
Yes, woke up in the night and realized I forgot the r, thanks for correction.
You welcome
That typo reminded me of the steam game TIS-100, where you write programs in assembly for a fictional multi core computer architecture
If you like programming and puzzles it’s hella fun. If you don’t I highly recommend you don’t buy it, you won’t have fun.
I already do that for money
Yes but this is fictional programming in assembly for no money.
I already do that for no money also
Fictional you say? Fuck it, I’m down.
Zachlikes are always wonderful.
one of the best games ive ever played. i also cannot recommend it
And that reminds me of an old DOS game called “Rocky’s Boots”. You were a raccoon who had to build logic gate circuits to get out of some sort of maze.
*Trash 80
There it is
