I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend's house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.

I was doing this with friends as late as 2012, because all of us were poor and couldn't afford those fancy new iphones

The millennial amount of old haha

Back when 1984 was just a story, not Government policy

Before that, listening to the radio.

I was about 15 but the rest tracks.

Waiting for the image/video to load because dial-up

It added suspense!

And time to talk!

They were still just laying the ground work for it instead of enacting it.

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How fucking old are you?

Or LAN parties so we could all play each other in Warcraft, or party up for a D&D multiplayer adventure together. Good times.

Probably every German above a certain age remembers this early 2000s AOL TV spot.

(He recently went into the internet. The site startet loading instantly… That was two days ago… It's still loading… Anyway, he's still young. He isn't in a hurry.)

We went to each other's houses because we each had a different computer - I had Commodore, one had Apple II, one had a TI-99/4A, etc. We'd work together to type in free games from program listings in magazines, and help find the inevitable typos - learned a LOT from that. Great times, indeed.

There’s a motel near where my mom lives that only recently updated their sign from “colour TV” to “High Def TV”

We had color TV and it picked up 2 channels. One out picked up really well, one decent and one if you turned the antenna just right and the weather was favorable but you'd lose the other two.

I played Atari 2600 at my friend's house. My parents couldn't afford one--really just didn't want to waste money on another toy I wouldn't play with. Just as well, the arcade games were much better.

I had a friend who would trade C64 games with me.

I was doing that in like 2008 as a 5 year old. My friend had a light blue iMac G3 and we would play flash games together.

We didn't get a color TV till about 1977. My mom didn't like the colors on the earlier TVs, but dad finally convinced her when she saw a Sony TV.

I had a Panasonic crystal clear b&w tv until 2004... I loved that TV.

I watched most of star trek in black and white with a high pitched whine only I could hear

Playing Elite in the BBC Micro at my friend’s house because the internet didn’t exist.

Going to the neighbour’s house to see Ceefax for the first time.

Taking turns playing FATE, or later on taking turns in WoW battlegrounds with our Starter Account level 20s, tricked out by months of PvP. Good times :D

I remember the good old days when my friend would come over and we'd turn on my black and white TV, and change it to channel 3 so that we could play a "doubles tennis" version of pong on the little pong console we owned.

Now, this may cause you to exclaim, "How fucking old is this guy?" But what you may not know is that my parents rarely threw old electronics away. That could have happened maybe as late as the mid 90s.

Gathering around the very pre-internet (actually I think pre-windows) computer to play scorched earth.

Now we're all reading Lemmy and trying to save open computing because we're the only generation who knows what it is.

It's got real physics! Look at the holes filling in!

My family had multiple computers and the internet growing up so my computerless friend came over so we could play Counter-Strike and Ultima Online together.

Diablo 2 required OVER 1GB of hard drive space to install and 3 CDs. Computer game install sizes are getting out of control.

N64 with 4 controllers and Forsaken while getting a sweet sweet 15 frames per second of motion sickness-inducing awesomeness.

LAN party just to play the Unreal Tournament demo.

Discovering you could use 3333333333333333333 as the CD key for Starcraft.

Heroes of Might and Magic hotseat multiplayer games taking all weekend.

xvid movies that would fit on a CD-R

"Have you guys heard of this broadband thing?"

Monthly nerd conclave to install Linux from the latest Linux Magazine CD. Mandrake has this new KDE 1.0 thing, looks neat.

Magic: The Gathering - Coat of Arms is dumb why does he have 2 of them AND Slivers??!

WAAAY before that: MUDs via BBS (and later Telnet/zMUD 5.55)

Some classmates made their own website, and they uploaded embarrassing photos of me, and audio recordings of them prank calling me, and then they shared the URL with the entire class, and gave a presentation of their website in class for extra credit, and the teacher didn't get that I wasn't in on it, and said it's a really cool website, and then everyone laughed, so yeah there was that also.

Oh god, you just reminded me of the time I donated my old PC to my dad, and managed to leave this game in the CD-ROM drive:

Lula: The Sexy Empire

I remember getting in trouble for showing my friend questionable things I found on Newgrounds

xvid movies that would fit on a CD-R

Doom9.org

Dvd-decrypter

GordianKnot

WAAAY before that: MUDs via BBS (and later Telnet/zMUD 5.55)

That pirates game on early Facebook gave strong BBS/MUD vibes, back before FB became obvious cancer.

Normal amount.

How fucking old are you people ?
(About the same amount as me, I guess).

They say revenge is a dish best served cold - so, probably time to do it back to them now?

The Youths (20-somethings) at work have a new 3d printer, and were explaining how they were using the printer to print additional parts for the printer, so I said "oh, like downloading Limewire pro" and the blank looks made me feel so old.

Not as old as my comment would imply! I guess anything pre-internet seems really old to anyone born during its existence.

How are those the same?

The internet was around 8 years away from being common in consumer households when I was 10. If this person is old, I must be positively ancient!

You download limewire and then you use that to download a pirated copy of limewire pro.

The MUD I used to play is still a better game than almost everything else I've ever played. That being said all MUDs MUSHES and MOOs were not the same lol.

Ahh MUDconnector.com

It wasn't pre-Windows, but it was a DOS game as were most games at the time because they needed more ram or wanted to not run like dogshit. I always felt like Scorched Earth was just "let's make GORILLAS.BAS into an actual game!"

A dvd with crouching tiger hidden dragon and gossip girl on the cover, but it's actually 8 Indian movies

Bootleg karaoke machine with Eason Chan's greatest hits and Frank Sinatra's I Did It My Way featuring a music video of two people holding hands on Causeway Bay.

vcd's from the place around the corner, the one with the fat black cd case that had every title in alphabetical order

A dragon ball vhs tape dubbed in cantonese that includes the first half of a random episode of Journey to the West

Guess where I grew up

I teach computer science, and when we talk about networking and the internet, I apologize to the students. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"