We thought it couldn't get better than this, and in fact it didn't get better.
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The last 25 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.
I didn't mind the early 2000's web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too.
1997 to before Facebook existed were the best Internet years.
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Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
It's so cool how we all share this experience. It's a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.
There will be plenty of post-cellphone generations after the collapse.
I'm in this post.
Side note: I didn't properly learn how to play Minesweeper until well after I got my first smart phone, it's a real banger of a game. I highly recommend giving it a chance if, like me, you were too young to figure it out and just randomly pressed on squares until it blew up.
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
Loved the Road Rash demo back then
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
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Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
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Uhhh excuse me?
Where's Number Munchers?
...or Oregon Trail?
...or QBasic games like Gorillas?
...and Nibbles (aka Snake)
...and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Neither came as a standard Windows game/app
Dang it you're right. Sorry.
I have memories from the early 90s playing a DOS version of Dig-Dug all day when I didn't want to go to school.
Filling the mspaint canvas with the spray paint tool 🤗
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit "app" from the "app store" that was full of ads...
If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you'd achieve perfection.
Windows 3.5 was the apex of operating system design. There, I said it. Fight me, I dont care.
I think almost everyone started with ms paint, no? I have no idea what skifree is.
Once Internet came, downloaded demos on bboards and then happy puppy. Had content for a while although short lived.
I still remember when the prize at the bottom of the cereal box was a CD-ROM for (mostly terrible) computer games
DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST
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Where is the OG Prince of Persia, it belongs on that list
I grew up with internet and still played these.
I used to play rodents revenge on my dad's wori computer all the time
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