Yeah, confirmed I am also this old, the normal amount.

Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.

People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.

The internet used to be magnificent.

I remember when my mum used to say "Don't bother your dad, he's on the internet" like it was this big important thing. Not "He's checking his email", or anything more specific, the simple act of being on the internet was actually of note.

I remember when I was 10 going to radio shack and watching a guy who worked there type in programs in basic on a ts-80 computer. Thought it was cool. There was no Internet then.

I miss the old internet so much.

Back when my friend got AOL for the first time, I came over and we sent an e-mail to the While House urging Bill Clinton to protect the environment.

I'm not insecure about my age, though. On the contrary, people younger than me should be insecure about theirs. No one born in the 21st century can ever really reach adulthood, IMO.

I remember being 10 and we'd head over to the one kid who had a computer's house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we'd manage to find Newgrounds. We'd spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.

Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.

I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.

We used to go to arcades even when we had no money just to watch other people play over their shoulders.

It was like Twitch, but sweaty and with more mullets.

I’m only 35 and we did this as kids.

Aight im in my 20s and even I did this growing up, is that person just a fucking teenager or something?

ha except it was floppy disk computer games and not this highway thing.

Old internet was the shit. Netscape navigator on a crappy 56k or DSL line, AIM, Runescape Classic. What a time to be alive.

Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we'd ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn't be?

I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends' houses

I remember looking for porn for the first time at a buddies house and we couldn't even figure it out. It never dawned on us to type "porn" into the search engine. Just two 13 year olds going "type in girls, damn, ok, try babes. Nothing? What about chicks?"

I was following it just fine until the "experience the information superhighway" part.

My mate's ZX Spectrums had no "information superhighway" connection.

Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.

I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.