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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > SA's Front Page Discussion > Nostalgia for the internet's younger days: 1999's most pirated files.
 
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Supraluminal
Feb 17, 2012
 Born in 1981 here, came up playing ASCII-based pinball on a "portable" tower-sized PC with an integrated 5-inch amber screen and a carrying handle. Eventually my group of friends discovered modems and we started connecting to local BBSes and telneting to assorted MOOs and MUDs at 2400 baud.

Yes, poo poo has evolved like crazy, and yes, it feels like we grew up during some kind of significant cusp in human history. I suppose every generation feels that way about something, but there's been some pretty qualitative changes over the last century, and a lot of it really ramped up with the rise of widespread digital computing for sure.

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