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[Anonymous No.55458207]

These newer generations of kids will never get the AIM experience we did as kids.

Where's my 30 year old boomer bros at?

[Anonymous No.55458220]

claiming haircombs

[Anonymous No.55458227]

where i'm from we used ICQ and then transitioned to MSN messenger

shit was kino. zoomers will never know

[Anonymous No.55458259]

>>55458227
msn messenger is what i had to use cause my parents banned me from using aim thinking i was gonna get abducted by pedos

[Anonymous No.55458294]

IM THE HARDEST NIGGA ON BIZ. I USED TO WARN SPAM NIGGAZ ON AIM SO THEY COULDNT LOG BACK IN FOR 2 DAYS JUST BECAUSE.SOON I WILL BE BACK TO DUMP SOLANA.

[Anonymous No.55458312]

>>55458227
I remember using some infinite nudge hack and annoying the fuck out of my friends, good times.

[Anonymous No.55458328]

Dropping outwar links on yahoo chats disguising my links as porn to get clicks. Good days.

[Anonymous No.55458341]

>>55458207
i remember using a third party AIM client, but i can't remember what it was called.

[Anonymous No.55458377]

I remember getting girls' AIM in middle school.
and ya I'm 30 years old exactly

[Anonymous No.55458488]

>>55458207
if you werent a teenager in the 90s, you never saw shit
internet was slow but completely unfiltered

[Anonymous No.55458518]

>>55458207
Add me on your buddies list!
My AIM name is RoterBaron4077.

[Anonymous No.55458544]

>>55458207
I turn 30 today, I remember those years as a kid

[Anonymous No.55458622]

>>55458227
Fucking based ass MSN messenger. Fucking zoomies will never know the kino shit we did

[Anonymous No.55458638]

>>55458207
I was more of an ICQ guy but those days were the golden days, regardless. MSN messenger was good also.

[Anonymous No.55458673]

winmx with the dark l33t haxor matrix theme for downloading cars

[Anonymous No.55458815]

I personally liked the sex chat rooms

[Anonymous No.55458949]

Back when Zuck was making faders.

[Anonymous No.55458968]

>>55458207
>30
I think you mean late thirties for AIM.

[Anonymous No.55458981]

>>55458968
This. I'm going on 40 soon enough.

My question is, and I think I know the answer, but can kids even type these days?
When I see zoomers at a computer I half cringe and several times they have been like "man you type fast!"
Between message boards and chats in the 90s I've probably typed millions of words. Do they even anymore?

[Anonymous No.55459064]

>>55458207
why are you acting like you are proud of being easily baited into the most blatant data mining apps for that time?

[Anonymous No.55459083]

>>55459064
>Data mining

Anon, this internet was made for the people, by the people, when things disappeared, they actually went away, not into a secret database. Your generation simply wouldn't understand.

[Anonymous No.55459101]

>>55459064
>not being there or having24jdr any clue

[Anonymous No.55459104]

>>55458207
yup, used AIM all the time until Facebook messenger took over

nothing like playing Runescape while chatting with your friends on AIM

>>55458968
>>55458981
32 here

>>55458488
I've been playing a neat game called Hypnospace Outlaw that recaptures the magic of the 1990s internet, if you're feeling nostalgic you should check it out

[Anonymous No.55459136]

>>55459104
>hypno
>90s
You did not experience the 90s if you are 32 anon. I'm sorry.
The decade was half over before you could write.
I do understand why you wish it so though.

[Anonymous No.55459148]

>tfw you'll never roll up to the house, hop out the school bus and power walk home open up MSN and message your qt 13 yo gf to play a round of HoN while your mom warms up some noodles

Inb4 pedo

I was 12

[Anonymous No.55459181]

>>55458968
Huh? I'm early thirties and have vivid memories of dial up, aol discs in the mail, using aim and aol chatrooms. I miss old BBS communities more, zoomers will never know how good things could have been.
>>55458981
I can confirm from my line of work that it appears zoomers are as technologically illiterate as boomers. If you are a millennial loser who understands tech even on a cursory level, you're about 90 days of up-skilling from a solid job, IT and Security don't even require programming and there are not enough people. All these kids want to be famous and or porn stars.

[Anonymous No.55459203]

>>55458227
Msn messenger was vastly superior to mutt aol.

[Anonymous No.55459221]

>>55459181
I have a buddy who's 38 that basically just worked for ATT for ten years making 80k, hating his job, and finally just spent a year getting a number of certs and was immediately hired with no experience for a 130k job and now probably at 150k.
Basically he did what you are saying. He has no real technical skills. Just knowledge and basic competency.

[Anonymous No.55459290]

>>55459136
Experience is subjective for that

I mean did (You) really experience the 90s? You were just a kid when the era started. You definitely experienced the latter half though, but if someone said "you never experienced the 80s" you'd probably disagree too because, your childhood was influenced by it. As someone also born in 90, I say this because at 10 I already had significant influence in my life whether it be from music pop culture or whatever, from that era. I mean my first CD I bought was hybrid theory. Point is that, under age 5, sure fine, era wasn't an influence, but after you are 6, you are absorbing your world and the culture within it, so from 1996 and onward my life was influenced by the era and the older I got the more of an influence current year was on my life. The same way the late 80s was minor but major influence on who (You) are.

[Anonymous No.55459293]

>>55459181
>>55459221
Can confirm. 39, and had a job in IT for a while. Most of the hapless users were old boomers or zoomers, both could not handle using Word or Google Docs, or how to plug in a monitor correctly.
>>55458981
>My question is, and I think I know the answer, but can kids even type these days?
No they cant. Everything is abbreviated to the most retarded nonsense or just emojis.
>>55459203
Why did all leafs avoid AIM? Just because it had "America" in the name? MSN messenger sucked.

[Anonymous No.55459326]

>>55459221
Basic knowledge and competency in tech comes off as engineering wizard leet-speak to these people. Most people cannot even handle resetting a password.
What certs did he get though? I'm looking at net+ and SEC+ to start. Also, even many of my coworkers har proven to be incompetent so I wouldn't even worry about "competition".

[Anonymous No.55459348]

>>55458981
Kids use phones. People studying CS in uni dont even know what folders are.
Its fucked

[Anonymous No.55459365]

>>55458207
for me, it was yahoo messenger

[Anonymous No.55459384]

>>55459136
Imagine having so little in your life that you get upset over someone being born in early 90s instead of 80s.
You're like the freaks who build their identity around personality tests.

[Anonymous No.55459401]

fug i loved aim...

i used to phish people in chat rooms and trade nudez for days

[Anonymous No.55459408]

>>55458207
>>55458227
>>55458488
>>55458518
*blocks your path*
(hey girl i opened your nude.exe and i dont see any picture)

[Anonymous No.55459438]

>>55458207
>>55458227
did these just simulate phone messaging apps on a computer?

[Anonymous No.55459448]

>>55459326
I have basic competency, no real technical skills. Got my CCNA, which actually took a fair amount of dedicated study, and got a 80k extremely cushy IT job at a university w/ tons of benefits. Working on cloud related certs now so I can into a better paying, fully remote job eventually.

Anyway look at CCNA instead of Net+ since it is more respected.

[Anonymous No.55459452]

>>55459365

[Anonymous No.55459646]

>>55458227
only ever used MSN messenger when I lived in yurocuck land. It sucked so much more than AIM.

AIM was kino americana. MSN messenger felt very polished and lifeless corporate. It was a good introduction to the faceless, cultureless bland yurocuck union.

[Anonymous No.55459813]

>>55459104
>Hypnospace Outlaw

I just downloaded this because I read your post, seems fun. do I have to play as an enforcer or can I play as a citizen?

[Anonymous No.55459854]

>>55459290
No. I am going by matter of fact, not feels.
I was born in 1984. I BARELY remember the 80s. I only know it in retrospect having watched it's movies and what not.

There is also the special feels of the using the 90s internet which you needed to be at least 10 or 12 to actually do. The internet is shit these days.

[Anonymous No.55459867]

ICQ, mIRC and Yahoo Messenger.
Remember the Yahoo Audibles?
MSN Messenger too.
Ah... memories.....

[Anonymous No.55459879]

>>55459326
I couldn't tell you. He's my best friend since we were five and he told me all about it many times.
But this is the type of info that there is no way I would retain, haha.

He works at a pretty large security and database company remotely.

[Anonymous No.55459897]

>>55459384
I wasn't upset. It's just an online discussion sonny.
I was born in 1984 and I did not "experience" the 80s. This is just common sense and I was commenting so anon can improve his opinions in their regard to reality.

[Anonymous No.55460104]

>>55458207
wtf is AIM? i used ICQ and later MSN

[Anonymous No.55460110]

>>55460104
AOL Instant Messenger

[Anonymous No.55460124]

>>55459897
>I was born in 1984 and I did not "experience" the 80s
Me too, except I distinctly remember late '80s pop culture.
When I was in kindergarten, Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bon Jovi, Milli Vanilli, Def Leppard, INXS, and Paula Abdul were played on the radio nonstop.
My older relatives were huge fans of those aforementioned musicians.
My aunt (who was a teenager in the '80s) was a rocker chick. She'd babysit us, and her entire room was covered in posters for Def Leppard, Cinderella, Motley Crue, Tesla, Poison, and Bon Jovi.
She'd always play "Hysteria" and I'd dance and do air guitar to it.

[Anonymous No.55460133]

I vividly emember chatting with girls in my school on aim about sex while beating off, which surprisingly opened up some irl opportunities for me. Usually while waiting for individual songs or porn images to download on kazaa or limewire. I remember being amazed even as a child at how readily all of this data could be shared. Millennials were in a completely unique position historically with technology. Our parents didn't yet fully understand the capabilities of it, so as children we had free reign to explore the wild west of information as it developed. In some ways it was liberating and awesome, and in others it was traumatizing and horrific. No way are my kids getting the same kind of freedom that i had with it until their mid teens at least.

[Anonymous No.55460144]

>>55460124
Yes, we know the 80s pretty well.. The other guy probably knows the 90s and thinks he experienced them. Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.55460156]

>>55460133
>clicks innocent link
>is that a dog and a...???

[Anonymous No.55460172]

>>55460133
1997-2004 was peak kino internet experience

[Anonymous No.55460175]

>>55460144
Now the '90s on the other hand is a decade I know all too well.
I used to stay up late and record videos off MTV in the 1990s.
'96-'97 was a magical time: Beck, Garbage, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Sublime, Filter, 311, The Prodigy, Bush, Collective Soul, Everclear.

[Anonymous No.55460195]

>>55460175
Holy shit dude. PB Crisps. I can' believe it when they stopped making them.
I remember having discussions with my brother about why in the fuck did they get rid of PB Crisps.

[Anonymous No.55460207]

>>55460175
Before surge, as a remnant of the 80s, there was a soda called NITRO when used to get when I was like six and first allowed to ride my bike places (very rural area) and it was advertised 10x caffeine. KEK

[Anonymous No.55460214]

>>55460207
I vaguely remember that, but I very much remember Jolt, since a weeaboo friend of mine drank that stuff like water when he was in college.

[Anonymous No.55460237]

>>55458488
>bragging about being old enough to remember shit software
ngmi

[Anonymous No.55460258]

>>55458207
>asl?

[Anonymous No.55460269]

>>55460237
Shit software doesn't control your actions and censor information young man.

[Anonymous No.55460316]

>>55460237
>a zoomer talking shit to anyone about anything
kid, we know what life is like before everyone had cell phones and social media. your generation is literally a joke.

[Anonymous No.55460362]

>>55460124
>My aunt (who was a teenager in the '80s) was a rocker chick.
also born in 84, and had this same experience. aunt watched MTV constantly and I remember the overnight shift from hair metal and lite pop to grunge in 91-92. i guess remembering the 80s depended on whether older people around you were engaging with culture at all.

[Anonymous No.55460397]

>>55460362
>older people around you were engaging with culture at all
After my parents split up in 1989, my new stepdad was into thrash metal, so he introduced me to Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, DRI, and Pantera at a very young age.
At that point, it was all just noise as far as I was concerned, but I opened up more to it as I got older.
I also remember when the radio stations switched from hair metal to alternative, so circa 1991-1993 you'd hear RHCP, Jane's Addiction, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains on the radio a lot.
"Under the Bridge" and "Jeremy" were played ad-nauseam.

[Anonymous No.55460429]

>>55458341
Trillian?

[Anonymous No.55460485]

windows 95 ruined everything. you are the normies

[Anonymous No.55460513]

>>55458227
Based boomers friends

[Anonymous No.55460538]

>>55458207
While everyone at school was using this shit i just kept playing cs on my own

[Anonymous No.55461614]

>>55458207
Now if only it had a winamp playing some mp3 from Metallica it would look perfect.

Anyways, look into a AI coin called Blackswan. The trading bot uses AI to execute instant trades based on news releases. It helps you to enter positions before the market reacts, whether it's bullish or bearish news. You can specify the events you want to trade on. their twitter/website has more info on it

[Anonymous No.55461643]

>>55458207
>message someone
>they go offline
>sign in other account
>can still see them online
>realize you've been blocked on OG account

AIM was a great way to see who really didnt like you

[Anonymous No.55461901]

Remember when windows media player would show the filename of the video you were watching on MSN messenger, I think it was. That most of caused some awkward moments. What were they thinking? lmao Good times.

[Anonymous No.55461914]

>>55461614
Interesting webm. I'm looking into this now.