/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8824710
I'm nostalgic for a ton of different things but dial up is one I want to stay dead forever.

>>8824716
yeah I miss leaving the PC on for a day to download a fucking demo

>>8824710
>PSHHHHDCHHPSSHHHHHHRRRKWHHHHHSHHHWHWRKSKHKOPKSRSGSSSSSSSHHHH
>double click Diablo2.exe

>>8824748
I remember downloading OoT while my parents were at a wedding so I could tie up the phone for longer than an hour.

>>8824716
Yes but the soul....it was too much.
I first got a 'puter in early 2002 with AOL at age 9/10.
The dialing screen is as magical to me as PSX intro. I spent my earliest internet days reading weight gain erotic fiction on dimensions, browsing bbw yahoo groups. and looking at pictures of fat anime girls on PAWG and instantly became addicted to it but it was annoyingly slow enough to not want to spend all day on it, and people had to use the phone.
Truly, computers are satan's playground.

When did DSL really take off? I only vaguely remember this from my childhood at home, but by the time I started school, the computers there had a constant internet connection.

Is this the /vr/version of brap?

>>8825537
you're fucking weird

>>8825543
internet proved everyone is weird.

>>8824710
A family member died and they couldn't get through to us because I was on my modem playing total annihilation with friends all day.

Good times, good times.

>>8825540
Depends on where you lived. If you lived close to a city it'd be a matter of getting your parents to pay for it at the end of the 90's, with the years until it was available growing the further you get out.

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>>8825559
Name of this retro game? It looks fun.

>>8825579
AOL was used to access games but you are correct, this is a /g/ thread.

>>8824710
soul

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>>8824710
i sampled this for the intro track on my album

>>8826521
You are absolutely the first person to do this in the history of doing things.

I remember how my mother allowed me to use only sites with our national top level domain (.cz), because she though other ones would be more expensive. International calls are more costly, so it makes a sense that foreign domain names are also more costly, right?

>>8825579
Hypnospace Outlaw

>>8824710
>tfw the modem noise during connection was a default setting so you could hear if you dialed the wrong number or something
This sound is only a part of early internet culture because terminal programs defaulted to nerd mode even though it's pointless for 99% of users.

>>8826648
i know kek

>>8825537
This but it was pokemon vore and I am fucked up forever

>>8826418
never noticed the chompers on the guy behind him

>>8824748
a whole ass demo in one day? dude, you had lucky connections. my parents were once furious that i spent an entire day downloading the VHS cover for beauty and the beast in the best quality that existed at the time. not the movie, an image of the VHS cover. best part is that we owned the physical VHS, so i could've just walked a room over and looked at it

>>8825537
"PAWG" as a term didn't exist until recently
zoomie detected

>>8827883
Pokemon anime weight gain not whatever you think zoomie

>>8825540
I didn't get DSL until 2006, lol. Had to deal with dial-up for too fucking long.

>>8828058
based third worlder

>>8827883
Can’t tell if trolling or retard. “PAWG” is now old nigspeak that means phat ass white girl and the autist who started the website PAWG, as another anon told you, stands for “Pokémon anime weight gain”. “Phat ass white girl” as an acronym existed since at least the early 2000’s.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20031215084607/http://www.pawg.maskedkoopa.com/
Here is the earliest capture of the website archived from 2003.
Funfact: Tom Preston aka Andrew Dobson aka CattyN used to post there long before he was a lolcow.
Do you think a zoomer knows what yahoo groups are? This would be such a specific thing to lie about for absolutely no payoff.

>>8824710
Between this and the constant AOL CDs in the mail, I'm glad I waited until the 2000's to start using the Internet.

>>8824710
Haha WOW so relatable! Us millenials and/or young Gen-Xers, right? We TOTALLY have shared experiences, isn't that wild?! Remember that time a lot of us experienced that one thing? Damn...

>>8825537
uh hello? based department? could you patch me through to architecture?

http://www.rpg-music.com/webrings.html

>>8829840
I miss webrings, and small sites in general. Everything is too consolidated now.

>>8828058
What could you play with it? What were your pings?

>>8828150
based. turns out every anon who posts the word "zoomer" on this board is a retard, who knew kek

>>8828058
I only got DLS in 2011, 100kb/s download. Only in 2016 I finally got 7mb/s. I kept playing the same CD games over and over again: Populous the beginning, The Sims 1, SimCity 3000, Age of Empires 2, GTA 2, GTA San Andreas and a couple of SNES roms.

>>8824710
>Oh N-

>>8831116
>"MOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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>>8827710
How the fuck do you develop these fucked up fetishes

>>8831154
the nofappers warned you
you could have avoided this

MOM GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE, I WANNA BROWSE THE INTERNET!

>>8829842
There are still plenty of alternatives. Check out Neocities.org. Continue to browse until you find some webrings that you like. You can also look through the Tildeverse, the Gopher protocol, and the remaining bulletin board systems.

>>8824710
So for any boomers here that used BBSes for sharing files back in their heyday: How the heck did you download software that would take a whole night to complete without getting raped by your phone company? How often would you wake up to a NO CARRIER message on your screen because someone picked up the phone, or line noise, or something happened on the sysop's end? Could you resume interrupted downloads or did you have to start them all over again?

t. millenial that wasn't interested in tech until the very late 90s

>>8825537
>bbw yahoo groups
miss those days

>>8825540
around 2000 in my country, we got DSL at my home in 2001, partially because I habitually blew up the phone bill by downloading stuff.
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>>8827874
brilliant, i lol'd