OT: Cole's Coffee Shop: Let's talk internet in the 90s

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

This was always hilarious...

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Might watch a silent film this evening

 

[Winger for Hire]

I tried to change my user name to "Guybrush Threepwood" not too long ago only to find out it's taken

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I tried to change my user name to "Guybrush Threepwood" not too long ago only to find out it's taken

Try "Guybrush 3pwood"

 

[Clare2904]

Awoke to find my car encased in ice today. As long as the roads stay clear I'm happy. Driving around all day on icy roads is a f***ing .

 

[Winger for Hire]

Try "Guybrush 3pwood"

Hey, that's a good idea... but I dunno if I like the aesthetics of that.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Hey, that's a good idea... but I dunno if I like the aesthetics of that.

Do it.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

But only if you can hold your breath for 10 minutes though...

 

[Ugene Magic]

- Playing Duke Nukem 3D or Doom 2 online

- Netscape and ICQ

- Dialup

Nobody played Quake or any mplayer? I find that hard to believe. That was my ish. No Sierra Online - The Realm or anything like that?

My brother, sister and I had three PC's right in the same room and we would dominate Quake. If you came in the room for the rocket launcher we were all grapple hooked to the walls up high all around the room and you were lucky to get one unless you went into a hidden door and one randomly spawned there in the lab, I think it was.

Thank you for making me feel old @ColePens

I was in my mid 20's. Yeah.... thanks Cole...

 

[Ogrezilla]

Warcraft 2 was start to online gaming. Moved on to Diablo, starcraft, and counterstrike. I played soooooooooo much of those games. I played Duke 3d and doom, but didn't have the internet until cable internet was available in like 99. But we had it like the day it came out. I never had dial up. I used it at friends houses though.

 

[Tom Hanks]

This comes to mind when I think about 90’s internet

 

[Winger for Hire]

I found Diablo real late and by the time I did it was way behind and only played it for 2 months or so.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I remember wanting this game as a kid since I was/still am a huge fan of the first "Pumpkinhead" film.

Needless to say it was garbage. I played it for like 10 minutes

 

[Winger for Hire]

The image didn't look this small on my phone...

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

 

[Winger for Hire]

I know Curse of Monkey Island wasn't received well by a lot of people, but dammit if I didn't enjoy the hell out of it.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I only ever bothered with "The Secret of Monkey Island"

 

[Honour Over Glory]

This comes to mind when I think about 90’s internet

Lol oh man. Oregon Trail for me on the big ass floppy disk.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego (USA, Europe, and World. I think there was even a Where in the Universe....), OG Sim City.

This is meandering back into the 80s but I used to love a game on the original Commodore 64 called Karateka. Check out this bad ass boss right here:

Toss in the big ole floppy disk and type in basic: LOAD "KARATEKA",8,1

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I also played the "Carmen Sandiego" games.

 

[Winger for Hire]

I also spent a lot of time playing Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

I miss the days of going into CompUSA or Computer City or your local shop (if you were that lucky, I wasn't) browsing and picking up some free demo disks of new games. I found a lot of enjoyable games I would have either passed over or not heard of at all if it wasn't for demo disks.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Or who remembers shareware on floppy disks.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Or who remembers shareware on floppy disks.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Me too

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]