[NOSTALGIN'] Things I miss about America Online circa 1994

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Bob the Mercenary

Operation Neptune!

I honestly can't remember if I ever beat that. I really wanted to know what had happened out there in space!

[Donomni]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Lots of stuff about one of the best dads EVER

He really is!

A bit more on topic, I remember using the interwebs at either school or library computers.

I swear to god every fucking computer in my schools were Macs.

Speaking of way back, I wonder if Stick Death is still around.

EDIT: It is! Wow, I had even lower tastes than I thought as a kid. Also holy fuck that site is like a 90's snapshot.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Donomni

Seriously, most of you fuckers? Privileged.

Meh, as for myself, yeah, I was privileged, but probably not in the way you were thinking. We lived in an apartment in Lithuania for most of the 90's (honestly, I really didn't know who the Spice Girls were until my wife explained it as best any sane person can) - that's a small country just north of Poland, and the first to declare independance from the Soviet Socialist Republic (and feel its wrath), for most of you. Because we were missionaries, internet wasn't so much a luxury (although it was) but more of a necessity - we paid only half as much for internet usage as actual phone bills, and email allowed us to leave 'phone-tag' messages with those who were stateside so that when calls were going to come, everyone knew about it before hand. Plus, my mom had (years before I was born) been a computer tech (we're talking really, really old-school room-sized things, here) and with that experience had worked in a similar position once more personal computers came out (usually as well as being a teacher) in various churches and schools we worked at. That meant she was familiar with the tech waves of the time and was able to hook us up. I actually never spent time on MUDs or other things like that - my experiences were mostly, sign on, send the email, get my stuff a) downloaded or b) copied-pasted, then sign off and work off-line. We were never rich, just "privileged" to be in the right place at the right time for me to have those experiences. I kind of think that's true for most people.

Originally Posted by Donomni

I swear to god every fucking computer in my schools were Macs.

I know, right? I actually prefer Apple products over-all, as my experiences have been exclusively positive, however I understand that Apple controls their products so tightly that third-party developers are scarce - that's why we switched to PCs ourselves - everyone else in the mission board was on them. Still, there was always Oregon Trail...

[Terex4]

Originally Posted by Donomni

I swear to god every fucking computer in my schools were Macs.

You mean those box things that looked like a vectrex? I remember playing Oregon Trail on those things. That and the really old apples with the 6 inch floppies that had games made entirely of green pixels.

The modem noise takes me back, sitting there listening to see if it connected or if I got a busy signal. Then trying to figure out why it was always busy at 5pm.

[MasterOfMagic]

That "Where in the World Carmen Sandiego" game on the mac at school.

Finding the demo for the original C&C online, and playing that for months. And Doom, oh Doom, spawner of awkward conversations with my parents.

And then my brother and I found this AMAZING site that let you download MORE games for FREE!!!! OMG.

[mauve]

You mean those box things that looked like a vectrex? I remember playing Oregon Trail on those things. That and the really old apples with the 6 inch floppies that had games made entirely of green pixels.

Hahah! We had those horrible green-text computers back when I was in elementary school. We had Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, and a color-matching game. Why we had a color-matching game on a computer that had ONLY ONE COLOR is beyond me. Yaaay for low-budget rural public schools!

Eventually we got a lab full of PCs in the late 90's or early 2000's, and then everybody played Oregon Trail in color. Although most people only played it for the deer hunting mini game.

[Wigmund]

When I was in school, we played Oregon Trail to leave inappropriate names on the tombstones for later players to find.

"Here lies Sunovabitch, drowned while trying to float across that last fucking river"

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Man. Oregon trail was the bomb. I remember that game. I also remember playing Descent, the original old school one with three people cause we believed you needed 3 to play the game.

[Donomni]

Oh, yes, another bit of school-lab nostalgia: Sim City 2000.

Dysentery pales in comparison to seeing your city burn to the ground by spherical robot alien attacks.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Donomni

Oh, yes, another bit of school-lab nostalgia: Sim City 2000.

Dysentery pales in comparison to seeing your city burn to the ground by spherical robot alien attacks.

2000? 2000!?

Back in my day we just had tornados, and sea-monsters to terrorize our towns!