Thread 713799480

How did boomers live without steam, fakku and gog?

>>713799480 (OP)
DC++

We know how to use a computer.

Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y,
Piracy, Fakku or probably ehentai, Piracy

Nano machines son

>>713799480 (OP)
Physical PC games actually existed back then.

>>713799480 (OP)
see those flat things left of the monitor?
those are called CD's anon
you bought them at walmart, toys r us, eb, ebx, kmart, etc and owned them
you would put them in something called a CD-ROM drive that was in the computer

>>713799480 (OP)
lanparties.
also >>713799709
and ftp and gnutella.
earlier, usenet, AOL groups and even earlier BBS.

We watched TV and VHS.

>>713799480 (OP)
See that printer, you could get a scanner cartridge for it.

>>713799480 (OP)
crazier that they made games that worked and didn't need a year of updates to get to a functional state.

>>713799480 (OP)
We had to use aerisdies for hentai and DCC transfers + torrents/Megaupload+Rapidshare+Mediafire links for vidya.

THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

>>713800454
uh, nuh uh.
I'll be keeping my beech corporate corner desk till i die thanks.
I don't need CDs anymore or a BJC-4400. I've got 32" of LCD and big speakers.

our local gas station used to sell a few pc games as a kid, got rayman 1 and captain claw from there, shit was cash

>>713799480 (OP)
Physical CDs and Limewire

That was my bed

>>713799480 (OP)
They had actual pc games instead of indie shit and console sloppy seconds

>>713800871
swerve

>>713799480 (OP)
We had CompUSA and Funcoland

Using pure fukken magic

>>713800717
supermarket had older games when I was a I kid, got (and still have) 2 disc interstate 76 for $2 new.

>>713799480 (OP)
>>713799480 (OP)
fun fact

>>713799480 (OP)
>CDs, Limewire/Ares and Megaupload/Rapidshare for games
>Google for porn

Back in those days you could google literally anything and you would be provided hundreds of different results. I was already playing SNES roms in the late 90s. This is why we complain so much about the current state of the internet, because we watched firsthand how it deteriorated to its current sorry state.

>>713801125
>he boughtered doom 3

oh no nononono

>>713801189
"index of /"

>>713799480 (OP)
>THE SACRED DIGITAL ALTAR
I miss when every living room had one of those beasts... fuck phones

>>713801140
I'm listening

Magic, we're all wizards.

Like this

>>713799480 (OP)
They had few but good games unlike the mountain of SHIT we have now.

>>713801381
meant for >>713801140

>>713801189
It's wild that Google actually was useful at one point. Feels like an alternative reality.

>>713801683
And nowadays you can't even use a search engine without feeling like your entire life info is being harvested to be sold to corporations. Ironically enough, ChatGPT has become a better search engine, and it still pales in comparison to how Google used to be in the early 2000s.

>>713800871
i hated those early lcd screens so much

Millennials, dumbass.

>>713800871
I had something like that. The dust buildup was insane.

>>713802006
this was fun

>>713799480 (OP)
>Doom
>Quake
>Diablo 2
>Starcraft
>Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
>Age of Empires
>Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Life was simpler back then

I went to the old shop near the house and asked the owner his recommendations.
I wish he was still around.

>>713802513
And what did the old codger recommend?

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku
Kill yourself immediately

>>713799480 (OP)
I only spent my early childhood completely without steam since I played Half-Life 2 sometime in middle school, 2005 iirc. Most of the stuff I played in windows 95/98 was edutainment and "activity center" junk, and the games I played on XP before steam were mostly Blizzard games, Age of Empires, The Sims, etc. normie stuff. I was hype for Spore lol
Even before I used Steam, I bought a few games from direct2drive, used GameTap once or twice and already knew how to emulate old console games and pirate pc games. I became a pretty regular Steam user once the Orange Box came out.

So, most of my memory of what PC gaming was like before Steam was getting dragged along to Circuit City or Best Buy and looking at long aisles full of big box games I couldn't buy for a couple of years, getting replaced by thick DVD-style boxes and eventually cases for about five years until the 2010s rolled around.
I remember GameStop also stocking a lot of PC games before then. The video store in town didn't, but had a shitload of anime and video games for sale and rent back when that place was still open.
The few games that I remember getting as gifts in the late 90s and 2000s all came with nice manuals, a lot of full color ones. The boxes are nice. Physical PC games are very nice.

Between the glut of games I remember seeing on shelves and stuff I would read about in magazines as a kid, it seemed like it was pretty livable without adware, i.e., Steam.
I wasn't paying for PC parts myself until like 2011, but from what I understand the worst thing about PC gaming in the 90s and early 2000s was that parts would quickly become obsolete to an extent very quickly back then, and that they weren't terribly cheap. The insides of most PC cases also didn't have rounded off edges back then, very annoying.

>>713800274
>crazier that they made games that worked and didn't need a year of updates to get to a functional state.
Meanwhile, this game was released in 1999 and was so completely fucked that they had to send out replacement installer disks a few months after launch.

I think fakku existed already by the time I even had fast internet
they suck anyway
>steam
not physical = not owning = just pirate everything
I only made a steam account in 2020
>gog
they aren't even the best place to pirate games.

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku
I remember fakku before jacob sold us all out.

>>713803697
>they aren't even the best place to pirate games.
Their installers are nice doe

>>713799480 (OP)
By walking into EB games and buying them.

>>713799480 (OP)
they surfed the web

>>713799480 (OP)
I fakku'd your mom's steamy gog.

kazaa
winmx
emule
napster

>>713801942
There are paid search engines that work, but it's not cheap.

>>713802563
Gothic 2, Quake 3, Warcraft 3, Sins of a Solar Empire, Halo, Jeff Wayne's the war of the worlds, Still Life, and Heavy Gear 2.

>>713801489
lmao i remember being kid seeing this stupid ad on that website. managed to find I pirated copy with 70 girls. shit got boring really fast

>>713800871
that looks dope

>>713806473
based.
he went to valhalla.

>>713806927
>download an episode of anime
>it was actually porn that someone disguised the file name of to hide it on their family pc

>>713799480 (OP)
You had to forage the wild for cds, usually staples or other tech shops had em and of course the elusive bootleg markets of burned cds with sharpy writing on them

>>713802006
I love them

>>713799480 (OP)
Self-righteousness concerning Intellectual Property is directly related to however many things the "autist" in person has personally ripped off from other people without giving credit or due compensation (due compensation according to their own whining at least).
>>713803697
Physical was never owning unless there was no DRM or copy protection.
>Buy physical game
>Limited installs
>Please leave the disc in VRRRRRRM
>Hope you kept the CD key

>>713807075
No, he went back to Croatia. Something about inheriting his grandfather's farm and needing to keep the family land. He gave me The Orange Box for free as the last thing I got from him, and that introduced me to STEAM.

>>713799480 (OP)
We went to the store and bought games in boxes way bigger than they needed to be

>>713806927
early internet was crazy

I'm a millennial.
We just used weird Austrian piracy forums, IRC and early p2p clients to get games if we didn't want to buy them
Also just went link-to-link on Encarta when we were bored.
Oh Flash games were really big

>>713808210
brah they were part of it, ever heard of snacks?

>browsing the web 20+ years ago be like
i still wonder if any of those sites ever finished construction

TOTSE, my beloved...

>>713809432
if they aren't fully done in a month max, they'll never be done ever
t. abandoned a website

>>713809432
>black background
>bright light text with some ugly font
>lots of animated gifs that make your dialup cry in pain
Ahhh yes, good old times

>>713799480 (OP)
Literally none of those services are necessary today when you have csr and nh (with ex for more obscure things)

That computer has a disc drive. That makes it ten times more useful than modern cell phones

>>713801125
Too bad you chose this game as an example.

>>713811343
yeah game is pretty bad and bombed

Gen X here.

Didn't need gog - all that shit was new. I still play Might and Magic 4 and 5, yearly. Still playing 6-8. Still play wizardry 6-8. Still play vampire the masquerade. Still have the original Wolfenstein, no, not that one, the OG stick figure ones from the early 80s, on disc.

We were forced into steam. Since vampire came out 1 week before half life 2 in November, it forced us to make an account to play. Whatever.

As for games - we used to pirate games in a manner y'all are too stupid or lazy to do. And it's still thriving: usenet. Usenet was an standard part of all Internet service back then. And in fact, it's the oldest part of the Internet. Just message boards in space.

And I discovered BBSs for old games like dungeon master, and chaos strikes back, raid over Moscow, mail order monsters, Ultima, etc back in 1983 with a 16k bps modem. Jesus, it took ungodly long to get 1 disc worth.

The region I lived in had an annual/Xmas time meet up. On a Saturday near Christmas at a national chain daycare center called La Petite. How we got access to the place, I have no idea other than some employee must have been on he scene. We'd show up with our decks and a stack of empties and copy each other's stuff. Not a few of us, I'm talking near a hundred crammed into this daycare.

Shit was wild times back then. Oh, and getting around early copy protection: I forget the name, some German software crack program was the shit. Sometimes we had to hexedit something small. Protection back then was ridiculous.

Now, as for OPs original assertion re: boomers (my parents), well, where do you think I learned all this from? Boomers.

>>713802158
you got to vacuum, mop, and dust, dawg

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku

>>713799480 (OP)
We lived on either RealArcade or bought PC games from the store
The DRM on RealArcade games was bypassed by using Windows XP's Guest account, letting you play shit for free beyond the time limit

>>713811047
lol

>>713799480 (OP)
We had physical discs which had resell value.

>>713799480 (OP)
I can feel the clunkiness just looking at that thing.

>>713799480 (OP)
Third world millenial here, me and my friends use to go to piracy markets where they sold pirated games that came with instructions on how to install them and some with the crackcodes

>>713800075
sounds sussy and clunky af ngl

>>713799480 (OP)
They went to the store and bought games

>the world was better when everything was more clunky and complicated than it is today
No.

>>713799480 (OP)
I lived in a poor zone (of a third world country) where Internet was not available, so I had to go to cybercafés to have Internet, and I also usually played WarCraft III in LAN. For the rest, I had to use piracy to afford games, budget releases (both domestic, and from overseas), and shareware/freeware/demo CDs, that were common, and cheap.

>>713815189
>complicated
It was the opposite of complicated, it was simpler and we were better off for it

>>713799480 (OP)
My steam account is probably older than half this board.

I downloaded games over the phone line
Not like dial-up; you could call a number and record the audio tones on a floppy and compile it into a game file
anyone else remember that shit?
have i gone insane?

>>713815152
I remember family buying this at a Rite Aid way back when and then using no cd crack to play it on family pc and friends pc. Good times.

>>713799480 (OP)
We got pirated disks from the local flea market, from well-connected folks who had this thing called the internet. Later, we actually got the internet ourselves, I even downloaded Dune 2000 from a pirate website (direct download was all the rage until the mid-2000s, when it all transitioned into torrents)

I had that exact desk. shit was rad.

>>713799480 (OP)
>Fakku
Fuck Jacob the Spider. Also I'd buy computer games at swap meets with my family, it's how I got into MechWarrior. Warcraft and StarCraft my friend burned into a disc for me with the key written on it in marker.

>>713815979
It was radio and cassettes, not phone and floppies
BASIC0DE

>>713815979
probably.

I don't even know that fakku is.

>>713799480 (OP)
Well fakku used to be free for one thing.

>>713815189
That's such a stupid way of seeing things, and it only makes me think that you were born after the mid-2000s for you to not understand the massive shift in technology as years went by. Things weren't "clunky", they were advancing at a very quick pace and it was very common to see new technologies showing up each year, but because of how widespread the internet became once the iPhone was released, everything became more corporate, sanitized, safe and profit-focused. Google went from the best internet search engine and powerhouse to a pajeet-infested investor-driven megacorporation who's too busy trying to force the world into watching ads, while their search engine has become one of the worst ones to use because of the hundred filters it uses to give you the results THEY want you to see, not the ones you want them to show you.

In terms of technological advancement, I wouldn't go back at all, but there's no argument when we say that the online world and the accessibility the internet provided used to be infinitely better back then.

>>713799480 (OP)
>go to shop
>buy game
>go home
>put game in computer

>>713816571
>try to play the game
>Dos version not compatible, get fucked.
>spend weeks looking at the box and imagining how it would look like if it actually worked.

>>713799480 (OP)
games came on cds
pic related is what I had

>>713816571
Wizard of unknown virtue

>>713816759
Who made all these cheap-ass garbage retro pc cabinets? That shit was EVERYWHERE

>>713816912
that wasn't cheep and it was actually really sturdy and lasted for almost a decade. I only broke it down because I moved states and didn't want to take it with me.
I kept the cabinet doors though now they are a part of a dart board cabinet I made

>>713816571
For me, it was Age of Mythology. I vividly remember how I told my parents that I really wanted that game since I also loved AoE II, so one day when we were at Costco and they had the disc there, my dad left to "check something". Indeed, he gifted me the game on my birthday. Loved the game to bits.

>>713816759
that seems impracticable, you probably always had the doors open and they would just take up space.

From Argentina, this is the kind of software and hardware you could find in stores, back in 1998. At the time, 1 ARS = 1 USD.

>>713817231
I remember closing it pretty often when I would clean or lift weights

>>713817446
And here's an advert for Children's Day, from the same issue.

>>713799480 (OP)
piracy with irc bots

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku
Nice bait

Zoomies will never know the hype that was PC game boxes and windows installation screen kino.

>>713817850
>feet

>>713799480 (OP)
The internet was so much better back then you have no idea. The only thing I like about modern life is a GPS in my pocket. I'm not sure how I drove around so long on pure instinct.

>>713817850
I wish Blu-ray drives for PC became popular. On the other hand, physical media for PC started to die once account-based DRM became mainstream.

>>713806927
let he who hath not downloaded the king missile song 'detachable penis' but labeled as a primus song, cast the first stone

>>713799480 (OP)
We had Napster, random scanlation sites and piratebay.

>>713799480 (OP)
>>713799480 (OP)
>>713799480 (OP)
Honestly, what did you guys do before Pornhub

>>713817927
the tomb raider remasters have unnecessarily good feet textures, its frankly distracting

>>713799480 (OP)
This was Steam in the 90s/early 2000s

>>713818124
those clothes catalogs, I just jerked off to those. Which was maybe once a week when I was home alone. Felt so much better not gooning every day like many years later. Mostly you'd use your imagination unless you were lucky and had a parent with playboys

>>713817651
I admit at first I wanted to post only Steam and Gog, then I decided to bait replies by mentioning fakku

>>713818421
>those clothes catalogs, I just jerked off to those
daaamn so did I haven’t remembered that in years, cultured taste

>>713818124
>>713818421
Porn existed online and it was plentiful

>>713806927
never got dolphin porn or gore while using limewire, emule, kazaa or ares, what the fuck were you guys dowloading?

>>713818124
If you mean in old-era internet? You could pretty much just google "girls fucking" and you would get a lot of different porn webpages. But if you mean no internet, I vividly remember back then that the cable provider we used to have had "locked" porn channels, Ten TV being the one that I remember the most, but somehow they were still accessible if the TV could reach past channel 90, except that the colors were on negative. Needless to say, it awakened a very specific porn fetish that remains very rare to this day.

Channels like HBO also used to have late-night sex programs, actual nudity and sex as early as 11PM. Girls Gone Wild was one of those programs, if I recall correctly. I also vividly remember that one of those programs' credits included a cartoon of a guy getting his dick licked through a fence hole by a cow. Needless to say, I've seen things no human should have seen that early in his life.

>>713811921
you're telling me we should teach zoomers how to use teh internetz?

>>713819127
What’s the specific porn fetish?

>>713819270
Negative porn. I do remember that there was one thread of it in /gif/ a few years ago, and there also were a couple of videos in xhamster, but it's so rare that I have never seen it being mentioned outside of that thread.

>>713811921
lmao ur old

>>713799480 (OP)
My dad used to torrent PC games back in the early 2000s
Miss those days

>>713806927
I think I never downloaded a .exe, but maybe it was because back then my internet was so ungodly slow that I could only download songs one at a time, at 16kbps.

>>713819491
My dad was literally 12 years old in 2000

>>713819590
You need to be 18 to post here

>>713818124
>what did you guys do before Pornhub
Your mum

>>713801489
>not using the index list

>>713819590
Either your dad was a teenager when you were born or you're underage

>>713819491
I still have two CD holders filled with discs, but I have no idea what are their contents and I don't feel like buying an external CD player to find out. One of them is also locked, the zipper just won't open, and I could swear that holder has a disc of the PC version of "A Bug's Life".

>>713819804
>>713819683
I'm 19, my father was 18 when I was born.
>mfw this triggers the uncs

>>713819491
I still carry one of these to play music CDs in my car (no modern USB or bluetooth)

>>713819884
Are yall black or something?

>>713819884
Yeah, I figured he would've been 18 or 19

>>713799480 (OP)
As someone who played a lot of PC games before Steam, WE DIDN- Just kidding, we did.
Obviously our first encounter with PC games is at the store. Yes, they shipped PC games, on disks, in a box, put them on the shelf, and sold them in stores. It's really no different than buying a box of mac and cheese. See the pic on top? That's what it looked like.
YEAH, THE BOXES WERE JUST RIGHT THERE, AND NOBODY STOLE THEM! Imagine fucking that.
But how did we know which games were worth buying? We read magazines and played demos, bottom pic related. I read that exact issue numerous times when I was 9 years old, played every demo on the disc for hours, and that's how we knew what was good. Yeah I was pretty young back then, but PC gaming was and still is my life, even when I was a child.
Word of mouth was very common too, if you worked in an office building, it wasn't unusual for some guys to talk about games and even play multiplayer games over the network. My dad brought home many games for me to play as a child, like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Half-Life 1.
I look back at those times very fondly. Is it worse now? In some ways yes, in other ways, no.

>>713799480 (OP)
You made me realize I don't use any of those in 2025

>>713819963
No, and my father was definitely not ready when I was born lol. But I'm not planning on having kids before 30 myself.

>>713799480 (OP)
I WANT IT BACK

>>713799480 (OP)
Aerisdies

>>713799480 (OP)
If you and your buddies were that bored you could just go into one of your garages and easily find 3 different things you could all huff to get high.

>>713819884
Don't waste your life here. Leave while you can.

What was your first ever OS?
For me it was Windows 98(my nursery still had 95 even though this would've been ~2001)

I haven't used fakku since they started monetizing it, people still use it?

>>713820392
hi zoomie

>>713799480 (OP)
Same as now, with fucking torrents, you meathead.

>>713820392
at home windows 95 and at school we had apple ii still

>>713820392
Whichever OS an Apple 2GS used in like 88 or 89

Also have you guys noticed zoomies were robbed of a proper solitaire or pinball? The windows ones used to be awesome. The new ones are dick

>>713821063
the zoomies who had XP still had those games
those who grew up with Vista/7 had to settle for fucking Purble Place

>>713799480 (OP)
It was easy, some guy in school was the first one with a cd burner and sold games for ~5 euro each. Then it became cheaper with cd burners and everyone burned whatever games they had and traded with eachother.

Then came adsl in the late 90s and you downloaded via IRC and then came the fileshare stuff like DC++ and after that torrents.

It's actually amazing that torrents have been around for over 20 years now. Have accounts that old on private torrent sites.

>>713821063
You can still run the old ones perfectly on current Windows

>>713799741
>boomers
>know how to use computers
You don't know any boomers.

>>713820392
95, at school we had Computer class pretty much every year and I lived through 95, 98, ME and XP, but I also remember that my grandparents used to own an even older computer, no idea what OS it was, I only remember that the screen was black and orange.

>>713799480 (OP)
The funniest thing about PC gaming in the early 90s was how sound wasn't standardized among games so it took a lot of work just to get the sound to work properly. At one point my family had a Disney Sound Source.

>>713799480 (OP)
>How did boomers live without steam, fakku and gog?
Physical media

>>713799480 (OP)
How nobody has this setup anymore?

>>713809401
I'll show it to you later.

My college setup.
My internet waa shit until 2006, so I barely downloaded anything. Even a diablo2 patch took hours

>>713821652
Drivers seemed way more important back then too

>>713799480 (OP)
Download the game illegally
Download freeware games legally + emulators

>>713822587
>90's
>download

>>713801125
Imagine not having a DVD-ROM in the year of our Lord two thousand and four.

>>713820706
this but vic-20

>>713820392
for my own pc, my dad's work was tossing these really chonky laptops that had a form of dos on them. I remember using it for sim city

Are Spotify skins like how we had Winamp skins? Young'uns don't even know what they are missing out on.

>>713825212
i wasn't even aware you could skin spotify seeing as it's web 3.0 closed down walled garden AIDS

>>713823887
I found an old PC on the side of the road a few months back, and had this issue. Completely forgot how shit used to work.

>>713799480 (OP)
We know how to use computers, you're just a faggot cuck who should stop making threads and talking on the internet whatsoever, just like every other zoomer

>>713820392
Windows 95 was my first.

>no ui scaling because phone game ported to pc
>have to log out and watch an animation before I can exit unless I alt-f4
whyyyyy

>>713799480 (OP)
Only real ones remember.

>>713799709
I miss finding the weirdest shit on people's hard drives.

>>713821063
>pinball
"The Pinball Arcade" with all the packs (=100+ real tables) is still my choice option
even though it was released in 2012 you can no longer buy it because some grifters (who make Pinball FX, a much inferior version which needs a MUCH better computer) bought all the pinball table copyrights in 2018 even though all they do is make reddit-tier meme-tables
there are also Virtual Pinball and Future Pinball which are both open source but like every open source software they are shit (I am deeply sorry to say this, I tried very hard to appreciate them)

>>713826569
This, dosgamesarchive, and some suomipelit site I forget the name of were where I got everything as a kid

>>713822467
there were no "drivers" that's why it was hard to set up (you had to know all the parameters and type them in manually)
IBM tried to solve this by having a floppy disk tied to your Microchannel Architecture (TM) computer but too many people lost the floppy disks and it was VERY expensive too

anyway these days all those drivers just come in windows (since XP/Vista), that's why it weighs gigabytes instead of a few hundred megabytes

>>713804991
>winmx
mah nigga

>>713826569
thank you
I remember it went down sometime around 2004-2005 (wiki/net results say 2006 but I think that was a different crisis) and it became borderline unusable afterwards... decades have passed and it's still a shadow of its former self, missing pictures / reviews, search never been fixed since then, games missing entirely etc.

>>713817995
for me it was the "system of a down" zelda song.

>>713827975
God I remember futzing with IRQs and DMA channels like some kind of techno-wizard just to get a Sound Blaster clone to work in Doom. Half the time you'd install a driver from a 3.5" floppy that barely mentioned your card and pray to the DOS gods it wouldn’t conflict with your mouse or the CD-ROM. Windows bundling drivers was like sorcery back then - "plug and play" felt like cheating after spending your adolescence deciphering AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS lines like ancient runes.

>>713799709
B A S E D

>>713799480 (OP)
i was playing NES games on an emulator in 1998/1999 using Nesticle

i played Pokemon Gold/Silver almost a year before it released in the United States using a really bad translation patch in December 1999

i had an NES and about 40 games up until i got an N64 in 1998

some PC games like Dungeon Keeper, Nuclear Strike, Tribes, Starsiege, Duke Nukem 3D

i had Kazaa to pirate shit as well

weird flash and Shockwave websites for games as well

we also played outside more back then, even had a girl tackle me once and bite my hand because i walked over some sidewalk chalk thing she did back then, fun times.

>>713829240
>i played Pokemon Gold/Silver almost a year before it released in the United States using a really bad translation patch in December 1999

Bro, same! To this day i prefer playing Pokemon on PC, it's strange playing on handheld for me out of habit.

>>713828852
if I remember correctly back in the Windows 95/98 days you had to shut down the computer before plugging or unplugging an USB device, and then turning it on again
"hotplug," a term for current day USB thing where you just plug it in when the computer is running (gasp!) is forgotten... unless you work with servers lol

Do you guys use Hitomi or Nhentai?
You're not still using sadpanda in 2025 are you?

>>713799480 (OP)
It was easier actually

>>713830445
>forget to close winamp
>buffer under-run because processor too slow to run winamp and burn cd at same time

>>713830418
I use none of these, at least way less than I used to in the day, when I get aroused I usually just fap to the idealized memories I have of thousands of hours of viewing erotica

>>713830309
no.

>>713829240
>on an emulator
MAME for me, homie.

Playing arcade games without putting a quarter in? Bro, I'm saving like hundreds of dollars here. The internet is fucking magic.

>>713832392
MAME is great but the problem of 4 directional joysticks (as opposed to 8 directional) was still unsolved last time I checked
really sucks when playing pacman with a controller and not a gated joystick

>>713807896
Seriously some of the boxes I unenearthed were HUGE but at least many of them came with manuals

>>713815152
Oh God such nostalgia

>>713823887
Brooooooooooooooo

When I went to college in 2000 I remember having to take most of the game CDs I wanted with me in one of my CD-binders. If you didn't have it you likely weren't playing it because Steam really didn't become a thing until end of Summer 2003. First thing I installed on there was Half Life 2 lol.

I remember having like my Half Life CDs, Heroes of Might and Magic and an N64 when I went to school. By Senior year we had Halo and a ton of piratable shit on the XBox too but college was a lot of Counterstrike and Day of Defeat.

>>713799709
>>713800126
FTP is slow and gay.

we truly did not know how good we had it

>>713799480 (OP)
The only PC games I played were blizzard games. Everything else I played on console.

>>713799480 (OP)
I wish we still got nice pc desks like this these days

>>713799480 (OP)
Because everything else used to be much better, so not having infinite dogshit wasn't so bad.

>>713800274
Unheard of in this age of zoomer/gen alpha slop

>>713802835
It was exceptional enough to be noteworthy, back then.

>>713800871
I had a bed with some cabinets beneath it, but it was nothing approaching the whole PC station in that pic.

>>713833332
>we truly did not know how good we had it
Looks like a drafting setup, peak soul but i much rather use current day solidworks then autocad or some ancient early 3D CAD software.

>>713819412
There’s some clips uploaded to the internet archive of old scrambled porn.

>>713799480 (OP)
I used to play on "wireplay", playing TFC every evening. Ended up playing for a clan and entered a UK tournament where we came third.
It was fucking brilliant, and you'll never know just how good the community was back then.

>>713799480 (OP)
steam killed pc gaming

>>713835352
steam killed gaming as a whole actually

>>713835570
i think you're right

>>713835352
>>713835570
>>713835605
i remember the sheer hatred
being forced to move to this janky, buggy online store thing, instead of just being able to join servers using WON
every time steam crashed, or went down completely (which it did, a LOT) that hatred cost me a keyboard or two

>>713815979
What year was this?

>>713835812
yea well the people who hated it didn't hate it enough and now its never going away, so cry about it homo

God the internet is so fucking lame now

>>713816737
pc gaming was always cucked

>>713817961
For me, it was a boomer that didn't know how to give directions, if he even knew them at all.

>Parents had PC in a cabinet
>Closed the cabinet doors around me to keep them from seeing me watching Mrs Dynamite on newgrounds

>>713800075
>Buying CDs instead of burning them

>>713819127
late night skinemax, I think emmanuelle in space was my favorite

>>713820392
Dos 6.0, then windows 3.11

>Fakku
Fuck off, Jewcob, nobody cares about your gay little site.

>>713820392
DOS, I played Wolf 3D's shareware, Jill of the Jungle, a Speed Racer racing game, and some arcade games like Frogger, Centipede, Space Invaders, etc.

>>713805069
No, Kagi is shit.

>>713811560
You're an adult and you still use review sites to gauge the quality of games? Christ dude

>>713800871
Man I used to dream of getting one of these, my dad always said he’d get one but never did. Prick

>>713809401
I'd always wished that moot had had the foresight to play as dumb, bumbling mod while the admin remained enigmatic, only revealing that they were one in the same at the moment he dropped https://dagobah.net/flash/DSFARGEG_real.swf and banhammered one of his lieutenants. Would have been epic.

>>713799480 (OP)
We used Sega Channel.

>>713799480 (OP)
How did our ancient ancestors live without indoor plumbing? They shat in the woods.

>>713799480 (OP)
We bought these CD called twilight that came with pirated games and fapped to the occasional boomer hentai game that came with it such as this one

>>713799709
>>713799480 (OP)
eDonkey 2000 (eMule) with ShareReactor, Internet Gaming Zone, Kaillera, GameSpy, Kazaa, WinMX, warez CD rips, Home of the Underdogs, The Page of Boobs, IRC, Usenet, diskette sharing with friends plus school share rings, command line ARJ, RAR and ZIP, warez group postal addresses, shareware and freeware.

>>713799480 (OP)
You don't know how much sincerely miss these cabinets. I see them pop up on Craigslist and marketplace every once in a while and I consider getting it every time but snap myself out of it knowing how obscene of a task it would be to rearrange my puter space for it. No matter what I end up feeling cramped on a regular desk after a week or so if I'm not adamant about keeping my desk clean or try to add something to my setup.

>>713799480 (OP)
>gog
Everyone still lives without GOG. They're going bankrupt because only retards rent licenses from them when they could own their games on Steam.

>>713820392
this >>713820706

>>713839091
indeed: some have evolved to have toilets while others have "evolved" to shit in the middle of the street they live on... and today these latter kind of people work on computer games because it is cheaper (or at least that's what their street shitter CEO is telling people)
truly makes one wonder

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku

I know you're baiting but I hate you anyway

>>713839641
>"archives... alrighty..."
>looks closer
>"it's .arj..."
>sigh
>opens command prompt

>>713802006
plasma TVs were peak though

>>713817995
for me it was a Bob Rivers song parody disguised as a Weird Al one. And I just found out Rivers died earlier this year

>>713799480 (OP)
Boomer here, I've had my Steam account since 2003 and only have like 100 hours logged on it. Multiplayer is gay and most of my favorite games can be easily run standalone or emulated.

>>713800871
Unironically looks like it would have been a lot of fun to put together.

>>713818654
Fredricks of hollywood was so good

>>713838096
>emmanuelle in space
good lord anon, I haven't heard these words for almost 20 years

>>713799480 (OP)
>Fakku
Retard

>>713799480 (OP)
Boomers took a pocket full of quarters and went to the arcade
Man I remember when there was an arcade in the mall nearby
...man I remember when that mall wasn't dead...
Maaaaaaan...

>>713817961
GPS made me dumber. 20 years ago I would just look up the map online and memorize the directions then reverse them in my head on the way back. From that one trip, if I ever had to go to that place again I knew exactly how to get there. I knew the major streets and highways so even if I couldn't remember exactly I could figure it out. I could also change plans and go somewhere else without ever consulting a map. By car, on foot, or on the bus I was never lost. Nowadays if I have to go somewhere more than 10 minutes from my home I need GPS, even if I've been there before.

>>713830418
What is wrong with sadpanda? Other than them being forced to delete certain doujins due to Fakku.

>>713841886
If there's something I envy about burgers, is that they have Round One. The only popular arcade chain in my city is almost nothing but shooter sims, oversized phone games and ticket stuff, with maybe one or two Pump it Up/DDR machines. When I was a kid, we used to have this massive arcade in the only mall in the city: two floors filled with arcade cabinets, claw machines and the original Pump it Up placed right at the entrance where a crowd would always gather to watch everyone playing.

>Grab a disk out of the organizer
>Pop it into the PC
>Load
>Play

>No signing in
>No popups about mtx store
>No need to skip 10 intro videos and 3 government mandated warnings
>No needing to agree to 80 pages of conditions that's updated every 10 days
>No need to load the loading screen so you can load the main menu so you can load the game
>No launching a store app so you can launch the launcher so you can launch the game
>No "server unavailable" when playing single player games

>>713843173
Based; what's the rush?
Progressive jpeg mustard race, by the way.

>>713843173
i wanna go back

>>713843678
Paint Shop Pro was great

torrent game
install
double click desktop icon
oh wait i still do exactly that except i launch from the game folder and not desktop now

>>713799480 (OP)
my steam account is over 20 years old dude
I played half life and counterstrike on computers that looked like that

We had Direct2Drive and GameTap.

>>713799480 (OP)
It's funny how as soon FAKKU became absolutely trash, NTR had exploded in terms of frequency

>>713843814
Gametap was fucking based, played so many of my favorite games for the first time like Deus Ex that way.

I remember chatting with some girl on Yahoo Pool and her computer crashed for some reason. She got back on and blamed me for putting a virus on her computer.

>>713818954
normie shit, evidently.

>>713844067
For me it was Hitman Blood Money.

In hindsight, it's kind of funny that there was maybe only one year that the computer lab would wheel in the fleet of these computers, and then the school almost immediately went back to windows.

>>713799480 (OP)
Better

>>713820392
some apple computer in the 90s. i remember playing a gardening sim on it.

I miss my old 486

>>713820392
95 was my first, I barely fucking remember it. I was probably 3-4

>>713843173
And now I'm sad

>>713843540
I don't.
I got dial up in 2000 and I could maybe use the internet for 45 minutes a day because my family are telephone addicts.
I can't remember when DSL was first brought out but holy shit it was a game changer. 56k to 1 mbps and doesn't use up your telephone line? I went from 30 minutes a day on the internet to 6 hours.

>>713820392
DOS. I remember playing a winter games vidya around 1992 on our old toaster. Playing and beating Alone in the Dark and Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis with my older brother are cherished memories

>>713799480 (OP)
Retvrn desu

>>713845808
so true
its like pandoras box having internet in your pocket

>>713801489
For me, it's mini-isos

>>713845808
I still consider this kind of furniture for computers my favorite kind. I never switched to a modern kia style desk. I still rock the heavy wooden desk with drawers and cabinets.

>>713799480 (OP)
>omg i am done using computa now
>*skate wheel rolls my mkb out of view*
literally designed by retards for retards

>>713843173
Here's the internet today

>>713843173
>>713848201

>>713799709
>DC++
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time.

>>713818124
>Honestly, what did you guys do before Pornhub
Torrent sites. Not all of them did porn, but sites like Torrent Spy did.

>>713799480 (OP)
you bought your cd you install your game and then your sad that it lags but played it anyway
FUCKEN RETARD!!!

>>713848201
Instead we had pop ups, the website blocking you from going back, viruses, opening tiny ass windows in the background, etc...

>>713849201
>would you like to install our toolbar? it's free!

>>713826569
man, home of the underdogs was the shit when you could download pretty much everything

>>713849201
Popups now are much worse than they were back then. Without adblock, most of the internet is unusable. Back in the day, you could at least close out of the half dozen popups, and they'd be gone until you refresh the page.

Malware is worse now, too, but in the gayest, most corporate way possible, because most of it is gay corporate spyware that quietly steals most of your bandwidth and CPU. And sometimes it's gay government spyware, that is illegal to get rid of, or even acknowledge it exists.

>boot up windows 98
>finally stole neighbors AOL disc
>browse kazaa and limewire for some dmx tracks
>play them on realplayer with fullscreen oscilliscope. speakers are buzzing and rattling as the bass clips.
>browse demoinoid on netscape navigator for more stuff
>watch retarded shit on albinoblacksheep
>mathcircus
>skifree
rotate gaming between slave zero, interstate 76, and redline
take me back right this instant

>>713849857
This, Heat.net, Kali95, I remember it all.

My go-to site only I remember is The Cult of Kefka

It was so interesting to me because it was a piracy/Web 1.0 site all in one - he didn't just throw ROMs up, he had a curated collection of a hundred or so that he was gradually creating full text+screenshot reviews for each one, so you could read the article he wrote about the game and then download it

He got fucking nuked from orbit in 2001 when he put Super Mario 64 on there

Also browsing it on Wayback right now, I never really thought about MIDIs before
This automatically plays when you open the site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YyIZap3WUo&list=RD8YyIZap3WUo

It's sort of amazing that such a soulful 2:30 length song is 11 kilobytes of data

>>713852608
>It's sort of amazing that such a soulful 2:30 length song is 11 kilobytes of data
we now get worse songs in uncompressed wave files, resulting -in part- in games being over 100GB now

>>713833492
I remember using Dwango back in the day to play other people in Doom and Heretic. Kali.net for Halo before XBox Live was really a big thing and like no one subbed.

>>713849857
>>713850628
WOAH same

I used to hit up BBS's back in the day for warez and cracked games.

>>713850726
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9u-1ohP5Y

>>713799480 (OP)
My desk in high school used to look like this

2007 as old a pic as I got.

>>713849201
those were only on bottom feeder websites, today they are on ALL websites, even mainstream news ones
>download this heckin 20mb website for a 2 paragraphs of content which is in the best case only slightly inaccurate
I had firefox remotely disable all my extensions (even adblock) without the possibility of re-activating them because support expired on their LTS browser I was using on my server
did they have to do that, bro?!
>viruses
>toolbars
you are either a retarded boomer or a cat lady

We used to get games for free.

>>713857831
So you're telling me you never randomly caught viruses after visiting sketchy websites, probably using exploits in the browser? Cause i remember that happening back in the day.

>>713858152
no the only time I caught viruses when I installed games from a game collection bought from some gypsy (btw I still have it)
I never caught any virus from the internet and I never had antivirus either... I installed a couple every 6 months, did a scan, uninstalled it... although I did use firewall

These are some of my favorite threads on /v/

>>713820392
we had one of these so i guess MacOS 7 or so

>>713799480 (OP)
When they wanted a new game they would actually go to the store in person and buy the disc

>>713822279
>Even a diablo2 patch took hours
I know that feel. Joining a game watching those monastery doors open an inch at a time hoping you wouldn't time out before getting in. Patching the game watching the blood orb with the gargoyle slooowly fill up over hours while the music played.

>>713845808
Remember when people would "log on" and "log off" the internet? Now it's just there, on your computer, phone, tablet, in your pocket, in the air through 5g and wifi. When you left the house that was it, nobody could find you unless you had a pager or brick of a mobile phone.

>>713799480 (OP)
>How did boomers live without steam, fakku and gog?
dunno but in Eastern Europe as a millennial you could go to a netcafe and stay all night long for the equivalent of 10 dollars (about the price of two packs of Marlboro cigarettes) and download all the games / music / movies you wanted from the internet or dc++ or even the internal servers of the netcafe itself
and also beat strangers at CS etc. when you got tired

I had about about 20 in a 15 minute walking distance from where I lived, last time I checked (maybe 2018?) there were only two, smartphones killed them off

very few pics too, if I knew nobody would take pictures I would have documented them :(

>>713859895
I remember shutting down my cellphone every night and starting it every morning lol

>>713860430
Remember when you only had to charge it every 3-4 days instead of daily?

>>713860430
Cell, computer, tv, everything was shut off. Now it's standby mode or just don't bother and keep it on at all times. Double for phones since the world never sleeps anyway.

>>713859895
Only in my earliest years

By the time I was working age, it was constant connectivity

>>713799480 (OP)
we had other sites

https://ironmouse.za.org/dragon/

>>713857037
This looks cool but that glare...

>>713800871
My parents managed to get a metal one back in '05. the bottom was a full on desk where the thrift store tube tv would be. Wouldn't get a family computer until '07

>>713861403
>zoomers be like, "where tf am I supposed to plug this shit into?"

>>713860668
>the world never sleeps anyway
yeah except not in the good way... the pre-9/11 way
this doco was from 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHGmkNY_Q4

>>713861403
where's the scart wtf

This is a neat thread for a zoomer like myself, but I also get a bit sad that I was never around to experience the wild west era of the internet. I was on the internet in the early 2010s, which was basically the the end of that era and watched the internet as I knew it decline. It's going to be weird when I'm 40-50 in the next 20-30 years reminiscing about the 2010s and even my time on here now. And there will come a time when people like me are all that's left that remember the "old" internet. Scary thought.

>>713861639
that tv is too modern they already made it into an s-video jack (which I honestly prefer because unless you spent a fortune all the scart connectors were flimsy as hell and fell out with the lightest gust of wind)

>>713861948
That's life. This is true not just of the internet but of all things, history, society, you name it. For all the hate boomers get they are the last true link to the "old world", no matter what the books and media say they were actually there and lived it and once they die that's it. I won't go into it because muh culture war but you know what I mean. To get back on track, there's an entire generation of gamers who only know microtransactions, DLC and the like. They cannot fathom a world without it and will vehemently defend it against any criticism. It's bizarre to me as an older gamer (30+).

>>713799480 (OP)
They had salaries that jews only stole a third from instead of two thirds.

>>713799480 (OP)
i had 4 cd drives so i could keep my favourite games from getting worn out, and you could buy towers with more bays

>>713802475
pfft
>Everquest
>Total Annihilation
>Mechwarrior 3
>Unreal Tournament
>Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
>Counter-Strike
>Day of Defeat

>>713799480 (OP)
Things were on discs, with updates being really small so they could fit through dialup in a tolerable manner.

>>713862473
>>713861948
stop it with the blackpill faggotry
go to church (preferably catholic) and meditate on how to bring back the good times

>>713863236
nice, I played and loved all those games (except Comanche 4 lol)

>>713799480 (OP)
They had much fewer games to play and achieved much less back in the day.

>>713799480 (OP)
the pirate bay and hibachi

>>713863343
Suck my cock christcuck

we had key codes. if it was 1999 I'd give you my key code spoofer I made

>>713863236
DO YOU THINK YOU'RE
BETTER
OFF
ALONE?!?!?

>>713863512
Is nyaa legitimate?

>>713863550
juden spotted

>>713863656
i memorized the xp key codes on the computers at the public library. there was a telephone activation hack but every time it got uploaded somewhere the link was dead within an hour, that shit that came out last year is not news

>>713863830
yes, always has been

We went outside.

>>713863512
>the hibachi grill
give me plumb sake, and make a volcano I don't care about

>>713863945
gb2/pol/

>>713799480 (OP)
Go to Walmart and buy games.

i wanted to play half life 2, but i had intel xtreme 2 graphics and NO AGP slot. I spent probably $70 at best buy to get one of those piece of shit 512mb EVGA FX5200's that also couldnt run the fucking game

>>713863343
>preferably catholic

>>713830445
for me its

>>713864150
>paul the blasphemist

>>713799480 (OP)
game rental stores and the cg shrines.

>>713863512
>hibachi
you mean Hamachi?

We secretly surfed the web for Tifa fanart and securely saved them deep in the C drive

>>713799480 (OP)
>steam
you just went to the store

>gog
you just went to the pirate bay

>fakku
who the fuck uses jacob's retarded website, use exhentai or gelbooru or f95zone or whatever you retarded zoomer faggot. anyway, to answer your question, google was much worse about hiding porn back in the day so it was fairly easy to find forums and random websites with tons of porn anyway. and even earlier, in the days of usenet, there were user groups with tons of porn available.

>>713864150
>¡et's olay devil may cry

>>713864281
>Nero Burning ROM
hehe

>>713864567
only the strongest survive

>>713864463
shit, I had a whole dresser drawer of floppy disks.

>>713799480 (OP)
We emulated shit

>>713864640
of porn?

>>713864648
>you have to have the original broken condom to prove you were born

>>713864112
you first
also please report to your supervisor at eglin that you are way past your scheduled dilation time

>>713864463
oh fuck man i had that exact image back in the day

>>713864739
newb

went to some store to buy the game. or try to download it through piracy. honestly steam and digital distribution is better. much more convenient.

>>713864847
holy shit i had that video too

>>713864858
was it hitman?

>>713864739
I remember my peepee would feel funny when I searched for these back in the late 90s

>>713864915
shh uut up. it's a secret

>>713864738
>No u!
>Troons out of nowhere
>saved that image because every one rightfully calls you out for being a dumb /pol/tard
lol

>>713799480 (OP)
We had Toonami and adult swim

>>713864705
oh yeah, lots of porn.

>>713864463
>>713864847
>>713864918
Old lewds were peak
>old VN CGs
>official gainax nudes of eva characters
>the otome function demos
Take me back to the more simple faps

Tifa the strongest monk in the series. her ultimate limit break does way more damage than Cid's shitty highwind
>hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit hit
>toss knights of the round in the trash
>equips 4x and mimic

>>713806927
>limewire
>download 1% of a porn video
>open it and watch the first 5 seconds until i get something good

i dont miss it

Tifa is actually stronger than cloud and sephiroth

>>713865259
put together

>>713865094
HOLY SHIT, you just unlocked a core memory for me.

Tifa is extremely underrated

We chilled in Gamefaqs

I'll fight for the right so tifa can rock her tits

>>713799480 (OP)
We had Minesweeper

>be kid
>friend's dad is into computers
>would download warez and burn them onto cds and hand them out to friends and family
shoutout to ZipCD

Tifa is the best character in ff7 just like celes was the best character in ff6

Shipping was fun back then.

Anybody remember back in the day when it was drilled into your head to never EVER use your real name, face or even the vague location that you were at for basically anything on the internet? Anything that wanted personal information from you should just be instantly turned down? Every short film that my school showed about internet safety basically repeated this message ad nauseam and everyone agreed it was a good way to get harassed in real life by doing this.
Nowadays putting your name and face on the internet is as common as common can be and this old sentiment is never seen again. What happened?

Fuck bros....
we really had it all didnt we? 24/7 Walmarts, 59 cent Cheese burgers at McDs, Mongoose bikes, and these gems.
>>713817850
>>713817589
>>713817446
>>713819986

We really never knew how good we had it.

>>713865551
>What happened?
There was money to be made.

>>713857037
So beautiful. Wish I was fucking rich like that.

>>713865551
>What happened?
Social Media. I don't get how people can plaster their info online and not care at all.

>>713864915
were you a yahoo chat user?

>>713865551
Yep, I remember learning about the internet in computer class, it was always repeated to never share personal info. Exactly like you said. Don't use your name in your username, don't upload any real picture of yourself, a couple years later everyone is doing exactly that on Myspace. Nuts how things changed.
I guess in a sense it's unavoidable, but still, blows my mind how people can complain about being harassed when they are the ones doxing themselves.

>>713799480 (OP)
>oldfag nostalgia thread
oh wow, it took all day to load a 3kb picture, I'm really impressed now shut up a minute you old fuck I'm downloading 30 GB of anime feet pics, be done in a sec

>>713820392
98, my school and my dad's work both still ran off it until around 2003. we didn't get a home computer until 2006 which did have xp though.

>>713865797
>I'm downloading 30 GB of anime feet pics, be done in a sec
And you won't cherish any of it.

>>713801125
>using the Diablo font

>>713865819
leaned 98 ms my dad's girlfriend was retarded because I said her shit box computer didn't have enough ram

>>713863343
Or you could just tell me?

>>713865551
I still remember this, and a still do so to this day, in fact i even rotate how i speak and type in various ways so that its harder to build a profile on me. This includes proper grammar, and punctuation.
It fucking baffles me how flipped zoomers and even a lot of Gen y is with their identity online. I really dont think they understand the entire concept of. "once you put it online, thats it, it there forever." like you can still find picture and shit from the early days of the web.

>>713865864
oh I cherished it alright, gimme a minute unc I'm finna boutta cherish it again

>>713865551
Absolutely insane how much things have changed. Remember the paranoia around "internet addiction" in academia and media in the mid-2000s? Now, if you're not one app tap away from the internet 24/7, you're at a disadvantage because of how digital everything has become. Even more, if you tell a recruiter or a manager you don't have social media, they see it as a red flag, like what's wrong with you?

>>713866043
>I still remember this, and a still do so to this day, in fact i even rotate how i speak and type in various ways so that its harder to build a profile on me. This includes proper grammar, and punctuation.
He even does it mid post! Holy shit!

>>713799480 (OP)
Gamespy, Xfire/Ventrillo, p2p/torrents

>>713866178
>Even more, if you tell a recruiter or a manager you don't have social media, they see it as a red flag, like what's wrong with you?
Imagine having anything to do with "recruiters" and "managers" in your pathetic little life lmfao.

>>713866249
Not every one can be a NEET leech, some people have to go get jobs.

>>713822279
>diablo2 patch
once every 9 months?

>>713799480 (OP)
During the 90's, it was a combination of endlessly replaying games that came with my computer, aol warez chatroom mailing lists, birthdays and christmas gifts and free demo disks

>>713848303
I too posted on SomethingAwful.com

>>713865148
for me it was discovering Dragon Moon XXX and those lewd Yugioh cards of Dark Magician Girl.

>Shaolin_Soccer_p1.avi 12MB/300MB d/l 0,5 kB/s
I don't miss my radio broadband internet in the countryside. 2 weeks of waiting for one movie in 320p. Forget about playing games over it. Thank god for gaming mags and their CDs - not only for games but also for wallpapers, e-zins, mods etc. I also remember going to my dad's office to download hentai pics and save them on several floppies.

>>713864463
Oh man Kantori
>>713864739

>>713800274
Bad bait. At least half of games in 90s was shovelware. Lots of games would work like ass or wouldn't launch at all.

>>713866301
Why don't you just get a normal job instead of slave shit like that?

>>713799480 (OP)
I had a floppy disk with some .bmp images of a pin-up with fake tits in lingerie
once I got 56k internet I downloaded 5 seconds .mpeg porn clips (or was it realplayer?)
mostly I just jerked off to britney and christina videos on mtv and photoshoots slutty celebs did for fhm, maxim

MIRC
frostwire/limewire
private trackers

>>713865551
ciabook happened

>>713865567
There's no 24/7 anything anymore, everyone was more rich back then and could afford to hire/spend at late hours at the night.

>>713865551
It's retarded how this is ancient wisdom. If people actually did this shit then there would be so much less drama
>What happened?
Internet became the new TV once normies got cellphones.

>>713865551
I remember that even as zoomer. School taught us to watch your private details and to not use your real name anywhere.

>>713865551
To this day, I try to remain as anonymous as possible, but some stuff is out of your control mostly data breaches and the like. It only takes one email or nickname to start connecting shit through them.
Unless you use VPN for everything.

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku
Fakku died the moment it stop being a pirate site.

>be wee lad
>get mirc
>chatrooms from the entire world of all stripes are open to me
>meet a ton of interesting people
>they send me games, patches, videos etc
>never give out my info so i don't end up in someone's rape dungeon
i kinda miss the fact that talking to someone on the other side of the world was a mind blowing concept
sometimes i see people facetime and i still get that stutter effect in my brain going "wait what? that's amazing!" even though it's totally mundane today
remember long distance calls? international calls? snail mail? fax?

>>713799480 (OP)
magazines, computer shop, cd-burners, you low IQ zoomie, photocopying movelists, sharing game knowledge irl

>>713865148
>the otome function demos
That game still has yet to be officially cancelled. Its original release date is 2008.
A worse fate than Tsukihime remake.

>>713865551
stupid normies learned to use the internet. e-celeb(govt plants) posting their shit normalized making info public online

Hentai sites that made you vote for them on webrings before they would let you enter.

>>713799480 (OP)
we went outside to meet friends and play games together
life was great
>chilling with the bros playing hot seat SSF on SNES

>>713801683
They intentionally made the search basically worthless for anything except showing you ads and sponsored results

>>713865551
social media is a huge blackpill on humanity
most people are npcs giving up everything for convenience or an illusion of attention

>>713870202
why dont you get a life

>>713823012
Well there was a brief period before gog launched and after the internet

>>713872379
Social media has exposed the illusion of human interaction because, as it turns out, no one has anything worthwhile to say actually, and it's terrible to be exposed to everyone's negativity with no way to actually do anything about it. Everyone ends up depressed and anxious without knowing why they're even feeling this way.

>>713872147
Yep, one of the longest development hell games ever at this point. Those demos are still pretty impressive too. I remember running them on my old xp, I dropped my jaw at how good the graphics were.
I know the dev is still alive, last year someone got his approval to make a model kit, but still no official word on the status of the game for years. I'll be amazed if it ever releases.

>>713849474
Hi, I'm Bonzi!

>>713865912
Exocet is a fairly well known typeset and Diablo's font wasn't even Exocet, definitely based on it though

>>713871039
>There's no 24/7 anything anymore,
Don't I know it
>security wagie out of high school, 2008
>2 24hr fast foods and a 7-11 at my site, never had to worry about lunch if I forgot to make at home
>less chronics around, mostly chill stoners/bargoers/nightowls

>security wagie, today
>everything closed by 10, latest anyone stays open is 12
>nothing but chronics around, and it's not even the chill ones you could shoot the shit with, its the babbling schizos and zombies
Everything continues to be enshittened at breakneck pace

>>713799480 (OP)
Peacefully.

>>713873841
Do you actually work security right now? Where? I can only imagine how shitty it gets. My job puts me all around Washington and Oregon and boy is it getting bad.
I don't know if it's just meth and fenty to blame or what, but all I know is it sucks shit.

>>713837739
Neat. I recall the Sega Genesis having something like this but I didn't know it was tried way earlier then that.

>>713860048
yo thats a great pic
raiding og naxx from a netcafe is fucking WILD

>>713820392
windows 95

>>713820392
Technically 3.1 but that was only on occasion when I would go with my parents to their friends house as a young boy. 95 would be my first at home, though we upgraded to 98 pretty soon after because my mum would bring a free copy home from work. Then later when I bought my own computer it came with XP.

>>713800871
looks cool but that 0 leg space looks uncomfortable as fuck

>>713845808
>normalfag on social media
Talk about irony. They're the reason the internet is full of aids now.

>>713848201
Holy shit this is what the Internet looks like without uBo? How the fuck did they make ads more annoying then the Flash ads that auto play "Congratulations you won!" and flashed an iPhone across the screen?

>>713874079
I've lived in Washington my entire life (just outside Seattle) and honestly the problem is so bad that the only reason I'm still here is because my dad still lives here. Once he dies I'm moving the fuck out of the North West

for me it was tothegame.com to check new releases after magazines fizzled out

>>713821426
Actual boomers who put everything on their desktop definitely didn't.
Apparently you now have zoomers who do the same as they cant' figure out directories

>>713875502
>the only reason I'm still here is because my dad still lives here. Once he dies I'm moving the fuck out of the North West
Best of luck and total respect to you. The only places that seem anywhere near decent or livable are so expensive they may as well be unobtainable for the average person.
I want to move out but I don't even know where I'd go that would still have decent work.
Threads like these are crazy, all of these oldschool things are so tightly related to how safe and secure things felt back then.

>>713799480 (OP)
>that tiny mouse space
I grew up with that and end up using more or less the same space today despite mouspads being a lot larger

>>713865551
Remember back in 2010 or so when Blizzard™ made it mandatory to use your real name when creating an account or something like that and it had a huge backlash?

>>713799480 (OP)
>>713800871
PVRE SOVL

>>713799480 (OP)
Emule, DC++, Soulseek...
Before that, you could find people selling CDs ripe with pirated software, including vidya, in flea markets, and later bootleg DVD all over the streets, at least in my country.
Before that, it was all about floppy sharing, and before that cassette sharing.
There was always a way to get shit for free.

>>713866301
I'm a NEET and leech from taxpayers such as yourself, what are you going to do

>>713799480 (OP)
A vast monolith of wood and plastic

I occasionally kicked the PC. Sometimes intentionally.

>>713799480 (OP)
>>713800871
>>713878706
There's nothing soul about these craps, space is too tight and you can't add or put more stuffs on them, this is especially true for the bunk bed like have you never been so tired that you just want to drop on the bed without needing to climb up of it?

>>713807896
let me guess, you need less?

>>713799480 (OP)
>fakku
Kill yourself.

>>713830418
nhentai mostly
there's a guy with a hulk hogan avatar who comments under literally every manga
i fear him

>>713865551
Still don't use any of my real info online, not even first name.
If in a call/chat with someone I just ask tell them to call me Paul instead of whatever throwaway anme I've gicen the account.

>>713799709
Based

>>713799480 (OP)
Before I had a powerful enough PC to play games on it I played newgrounds flash games on it, I played powerful games on consoles. By the time I switched to PC completely, steam was already a thing.

>>713799709
this, desu

I live without fakku and gog just fine zoomzoom

>>713802247
WTF. I thought all screens just did that by default until now when poked. Tbf the last time I ever attempted poking a screen was like 8.

>>713802247
It still is. I sometimes still do it when I'm bored.
But nothing ever going to beat the cool sparkles coming from CRT when you turn it on.

>>713874079
Still working as a human scarecrow in Hawaii and yeah, it has gotten pretty bad. Always had issues with meth and booze but now I've seen actual folded over fent zombies, thefts and break ins are way up
Other states are still sending their homeless to us and making their problems ours too
And staffing is fucked too, because no one wants to do this shit. It's a boring job when nothing is happening so zoomers can't stand the quiet and isolation of night shift

Back then we actually had good games to occupy ourselves with.

>>713874190
They all tried it
Super Famicom had Satellaview (JP exclusive), and Genesis and Super Nintendo both had Xband

Comfy thread

>>713799480 (OP)
>buy PC Gamer once in a while
>see an ad or a review for a game
>go to the store and buy the game

>>713837739
I never knew this existed, that's really cool. I guess I'm too young (39).

>>713854036
>presumably a 5.1 audio setup
>all the speakers in a row right beside each other
cute

>>713866142
>>713865797
uhm, where does one start downloading a pack of 30GB of anime feet pics? asking for a friend

>>713865797
>feet pics
>feet
Wow, you're so brave!

>>713879254
>he doesn't know

I knew this was weird guy who knew how to download games from like those mIRC channels. He's print us a list of games he had once in a while and he'd burn them on a CD for 5 bucks. I think I still have some of them in a box somewhere, like Myth and Hidden and Dangerous.

>>713879254
That's the hard truth.
Where do you put your three other monitors, recording mic, sound panels and LED strips?

>>713880375
That's Hulk Hogan himself, actually.

>>713885634
Damn what was this dude doing,selling bootlegs at the flea market?

>>713885634
I'd trip on one of the CD stacks and destroy the majority of what is in the picture

>>713799480 (OP)
We had complete games on discs that didn't require updates nor require a steam client to play with others online.

>>713885634
They call him the Warez Man

I absolutely do not miss how heavy TV's and monitors used to be like good God how did we manage

>>713885634
Imagine the smell.

>>713865551
Not only that, but if you don't/barely have any social media presence now you're seen as a weirdo with something deeply wrong with you at best, or a domestic terrorist.
Remember how the media was freaking out over Thomas Matthew Crooks last year for not having a facebook or twitter account?

>>713799709
MY NIGGA

>>713804991
>winmx
Being a weeb back then, this felt like finding the lost ark. The japs were all using this pretty much exclusively.

>>713839192
Is that metal & lace? there was a second one? fuuuck

>>713886562
It's glorious, my co-workers don't understand how I have so much internet knowledge but don't have any social media accounts. Blows their tiny little minds.

>>713885634
ah, those were the good ol days. Piracy was actually fun.

>>713888134
I remember my dad bringing me to a weird street-side vendor that sold pirated games back when I was like 8. He bought C&C Tiberian Sun for me. I remember the seller being Chinese.
Fond memories.

>>713861612
holy shit that intro goes hard

>>713818124
Soul Calibur 3 character creator and image gallery.

What are oldfags ITT going to inherit? I got 4 apartments to rent and 2 houses by now, what did you get from your parents and grandparents?

>>713888376
a suburban house i have to split with two siblings and maybe a small amount of money if my parents don't golf and travel it away first
i'm not planning my life around an inheritance just to be safe

>>713882734
(paid) youtube reviewers and streamers killed proper game journalism
of course paper magazines like PC Gamer were cool but proper online game journalism survived even to the early 2010s (e.g. the escapist and eurogamer)... after that they started to have diversity hires and it was all over

>>713823887
dude... this and unplugging old power supply ccables (can't remember what the name for it was, tell me)

I'm getting PTSP now

>>713888828
Molex connector

remember when graphics cards didn't need a support pillar to prevent them from sagging and damaging the connectors?

my friends :')

>>713888921
>Molex connector
yes, these motherfucker sucked

>>713889542
Never had any problems with them. Had to yank them pretty hard, of course.

>>713885634
Ahoy

>>713843678
Wait a minute is that a..?!
ADVERTISER-SAN GET DOWN

>>713889542
>>713889586
the license to make the real ones is very expensive and the knock-off sucked ass
also they are only guaranteed for about 25 plug-unplug cycles (so basically they were not designed to be unplugged but to make a connection as secure and as good as possible) so you better make them count

>>713889870
They're covered though. In a tasteful manner, even.

>>713889586
they were fucking glued together, i always cut my fingers up trying to separate the damn things
the worst was trying to detach the cpu power cable from the motherboard (or trying to connect the front panel cables to the tiny pins on the mobo )

>>713890315
Sounds a bit crummy. But like I said, I, as a regular computer user and occasional builder, never had any real problems with them.

>>713890407
probably crummy if you think of it as a connector
not if you think about it as a high amperage cable you can connect without soldering