PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Tue Mar-24-15 02:52 PM
24. "Nah b, Windows 95/98 it the biggest dot." In response to Reply # 7
When PC's shipped with Win95 and the price of 14.4k access was $30 a month with your local ISP, that's when shit really changed.
Smartphones just made it so you could have internet access in your pocket.
... and I'm not talking about iPhones or Android shits either. Palm, Windows PPC/Windows Mobile, and Blackberry based phones have been serving up mobile web access since at least 2002.
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forcing myself to actually respond to you is like bathing in ebola virus. - Binlahab
Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW
PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Tue Mar-24-15 03:52 PM
35. "nah b, 07 Myspace was still kang of social media" In response to Reply # 25
the nail in the coffin for myspace was that update in 2009/2010 that made it unusable. People were complaining about waiting for upwards of 2 minutes just to log in and see your home page even on powerful cutting edge PC's on the fastest connections available at the time.
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forcing myself to actually respond to you is like bathing in ebola virus. - Binlahab
Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW
21. "Yeah, my dad always kept us up to date" In response to Reply # 13
I suppose you are right though. It was definitely not as user friendly as it is now but it was still full of easy to access content. I used to surf a lot of music websites back then, and post on forum's as well.
10. "honestly, before there was an internet there were trolls, stupid people" In response to Reply # 0
flame wars and anything else you can think of on the bulletin boards, email discussion services, etc. Maybe it was 'smarter' then in the sense that a lot of the conversation came from colleges, but it was just as dumb.
The only way around it was moderating the hell out of it.
I started in on a few email listservs or whatever they were called around 1991 and that kind of culture was already part of the scene.
cheap smart-phones broke down the last wall. You got dummies who don't know how to log into their own email from anything other than their phone's mail app using social media every day.
Not to mention the fact that dummies under the age of 25 grew up online.
I met my second ex-fiance off xanga we agreed to tell everyone we met at John Jay through mutual friends (which we came to find out later would have been a very plausible story when we figured out how many people we knew mutually to begin with)
34. "been there, done that. I went to a wedding with a chick I met online" In response to Reply # 32
the wedding wasn't the first time we'd been out, but it was the first time we'd been in a setting where a ton of people had known her her whole life. Lying about how we met was a lot more difficult that weekend.
You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
33. "SO glad you used quotes" In response to Reply # 0
cause fuckwads swore they were smart back then too smh* its just more assholes now thats all ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
38. "Prodigy, Compuserve, Aol" In response to Reply # 0
Prodigy was the first social network I belonged to. You could play games online (one of the first companies to offer online game play) like Red Baron. There was also a "community" filled with all the stuff you would find online today. People hooking up with each other, beefing, talking about each other, and of course positive stuff like talking about code, hacking, getting the most bang out of your 2400 baud modem. This was around 1991
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