Can I have my portable cd player back?

This is how you accidentally start a Gen-X commune.

OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.

Both. Pagers with LCD or eink only. No LED screens.

uh oh

Skate parks, bmx(s), towering ice cream, starcraft on battlenet.

Really, you have the opportunity to recreate the past and I’m stuck with AIM? I’ll stick to XMPP and IRC thanks.

Lost me at allowing AOL. I was there as a teenager for the first AOL and looking back it was not a good thing.

It’s period appropriate, should be fine

You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.

Or at least ICQ!

We should also have a couple of BBSs that run multiple MUDs.

Warning for /u/mrmisses: 12:15:11 PM You've been warned by /u/SpruceBringsteen. Your warning level has increased from 0% to 20%.

No, not ICQ

i'm still gonna run around with an Shenandoah beard, wide hat and wil clothes, and you can't stop me

sad ship horn noises

IRC is the shit. I remember wasting so many hours as a teenager just shooting the shit with random people.

Sounds like oomer behavior.

Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.

Me now: Maybe they were onto something

Black Mirror's San Junipero.

It's interesting how so many virtual realities tend to offer the 80s-90s as the best world to be in.

Honestly, the 90s was a shit time for many LGBTQ people and often PoCs as well. Can we have (at least) todays levels of wokeness? Oh and today levels of healthcare... and today levels of assistive technology for people needing assistance, oh and...

My channels were niche ones with the same regular people. A safe place to hang out and talk about anything. It was my introvert version of going to the mall.

Me watching the original Matrix "That filthy guy willing to betray humanity just to be a little happy"
Me living in the post covid/trump ruins the world/Jewish people doing a genocide... "Hook me up, you don't even have to make me rich, but that Joey Pants was on to something"

ICQ, please. Mine was 737916.

I just bought a Sony Minidisc player... I miss N3P Mixtape CDs. So, I'm embracing ludditerousness.

I would probably choose the era of roughly 2012-2016.

Blockbuster went out of business for a reason. It was worse than Redbox and worse than Netflix's mail service. And eventually Netflix's streaming reached a magical peak where it was still affordable and had a great library. Almost everything was either Netflix or Hulu, and HBO waa only for really expensive high-budget stuff. Used to be Disney movies on Netflix.

Also... Idk how old this tweet is but it's weird to suddenly zee Nikki Limo pop up. I used to really enjoy her Tasty Tuesday show years ago.

I think I have my Advisor Gold around here somewhere

Ya, and maybe we can have "Blockbuster's" and it'll be a co-op clone of the og.

I mean, you can get an old phone and rip your CDs and put each one on a separate 1 GB SDcard...

Take me back to the time when I would finish before the bottom half of jenna jameson even manages to load

They can also... Get a portable cd player

I had a six digit number too and I have unfortunately forgotten what it was and this is now one of my life's greatest disappointments.

Your wish is granted. You'll forever live Trump's first campaign

Yeah I really don't want to have to lie to my doctor and say I'm into men to get my estrogen

The nightmare of the 90s is alive in Ft Wayne

Mine was using the password "buddha" for my ICQ account and getting it stolen by somebody in Russia. Shameful.

More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.

I would sign up?

ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn't support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately... but then they log off and the opportunity passed.

Better the campaign than the presidency

Also technically his first campaign was in 2000. Officially, 2016 was his 2nd campaign. Unofficially, it was his 4th.

I once had a DVD player that played CDs with MP3s on it. (I just felt like letting everybody know.)

It takes me a minute to remember my cell number, but I can rattle off my IQC number in a second. My ICQ fridge magnet was kept for decades through multiple moves

I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.

Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.

We don't need to recreate every aspect.

Well, with dial-up that could be 10 minutes.

You'd still beat me by 50 minutes, though.

Towering ice cream? Twin towers?

With a little airplane cookie stuck in.

It's been 25 years, I think it's time.

As long as we make it taste like pizza hut from the early 90s, cause they went down hard and their pizza is kind of ass, now.

Maybe that's why I still use IRC. I was doing this subconsciously all along.

I can't wait to play LORD and Usurper again.

Reminds of this bit from Freefall: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03150.htm