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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 59 points 10 months ago

I used to Google image search boobs in the web browser built into my PSP

[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

And now the PS5 doesn't even have a(n easily accessible) web browser.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kept getting exploited to hack consoles because Sony sucks at using hypervisors (although I'm anti-DRM, so...).

XBone and Xbox Series still haven't been hacked, outside of a barely used escillation bug in devmode since MS uses hypervisors for everything, which essentially sandboxes everything into their own VMs.

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Omfg

! Core memory restored !

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

I have watched porn in 128x160.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

I watched porn on the hustler I found in the woods

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Pshh that’s nothing, I had to wait for the steamboat to arrive and keep an eye out for any ankle while harlots descended down the ramp.

[-] accidental@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago

pixelated nipples glittering in the dark off near the Tannhäuser Gate...

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago

I have ejaculated whole waiting for a naked woman loaded line by line.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

It was picpost.com after my parents went to bed. 640x480 jpgs that you got to see line by line. And if you could find a postage stamp video filmed on a potato, it was maybe 10 seconds and you put that on repeat until you finished.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I used to have some JPGs stored on Zip disks lol

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[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Ah, fond memories of tying up the house phone line all weekend for a 48 hour non-stop Starcraft marathon over AOL, getting pings on battle.net that were embarrassing then but are probably considered warcrimes today.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

I played Descent against my friend by dialing into his computer directly. Worked amazingly well considering the specs of the machines. We had a rule that if he got disconnected because his mom picked up the phone we'd have to restart the match.

(I was already so chronically online by that time my parents had sprung for a second phone line.)

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's amazing any real-time gaming worked with all that latency.

I routinely played Quake 2 with 200-300ms ping. I had to abandon hitscan weapons entirely, relying on rockets and grenades to do any damage. I never dominated any pub matches, but I usually wasn't dead last either. Anyway, forcing that much latency on gamers nowadays is disallowed under multiple UN sanctions.

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[-] moonsnotreal 38 points 10 months ago

I used to be able to remember about a dozen phone numbers, now I barely remember mine.

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

I still remember my parents mobile numbers from 2008.

I do not know their current numbers.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I remember my friends phone numbers from the 80's, and I have no idea what their numbers are now. Like I don't even know a single digit in their new numbers. I've never even seen the numbers. We tapped our phones together, and I magically had their contact card.

[-] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

lost my virginity in a AOL chatroom

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

how does that work

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[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

I guess it tracks that the type of person who would beat their son over an internet bill would also beat their dog. Some people have no business having kids or pets.

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Right? What a horrifying metaphor

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

I once ran up a $300 AOL bill. Back when they charged by the hour.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I rang up over a thousand dollars in charges for using a number outside of my local exchange, which was at the time considered long distance (same area code). I had spent a couple days camping out in an IRC channel.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Ah yes when "local long distance" plans were an unfortunate thing.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

My favorite Boomer porn stories.

One kid paid for a copy of Playboy with seventy five pennies he'd saved up.

Military kids knew when 'snap' inspections would be carried out. They'd warn the troops, who would hide their porn and beer in the woods. Then the kids would search out the stashes and abscond.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

I had a -3k rubles bill when they were like 30:$1 for browsing supposedly free services from my mobile carrier. Dad didn't touch me, but the look in his eyes was more painful than that. It was a great lesson in not trusting random ads and free stuff.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Not being a dick, asking honestly. Was it rare to not get beat in Russia?

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Maybe? My generation (millenial) had troubles with many kids lacking fathers who ghosted them or disappeared completely and not being educated by a combo of a mother and gramps. I feel lucky I had a complete family and one that was liberal enough to not touch me at all. Many of my friends didn't have that favor. A soulcrushing amount of them had just a mom, one that was depressed enough to scream at them and beat them when they didn't toe the line. Today it seems better in general, but less pairs even agree to have a child in this economy.

[-] zammy95@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That's gotta be like saying isn't it rare to not get shot in America.

(Am American, but have met some pretty cool dudes from Russia before lmao.)

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

I remember putting stuff infront of the router to hide the internet LED when i played Maple Story and told my dad that all those others are NPCs

[-] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

When I was twelve I was able to forward AIM to my SMS. Backs when texts where 11¢ a piece... $350 that month.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago

Back when sending a message saying just "ok" really sent a message.

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[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dating when each sms cost $.20 was rough. In the long ago, BBS numbers were all long distance from our house.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago

Long distance was always a massive scam by the phone companies. Glad that's gone (now to do the same with international calls)

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And data caps. Like, I get capping at 10 or 100TB on a residencial line, but 50GB cell data or 1TB home data is wack.

[-] GoosLife@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also when you do cap the line, it would make a lot more sense to make the limit dynamic and local.

As in: "you're hogging the connection, let's take a break for now" - and not: "you watched a movie in HD and forgot you weren't on wifi. The logical thing to do is to cut your entire mobile internet connection for a full month, unless you pay us extortion money"

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[-] stinerman@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Getting in trouble for calling long distance...

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Oh man. I have a nostalgia for old cellphones like the Nokia or flip phones, but not the cell plans. There was initially no internet, but when it showed up it was super limited data. Limited texts. Limited minutes. But you could get free texts and calls after a certain time of day, like 5 or 6 in the evening. Plans were expensive. If you went over your allotment of texts it was a ridiculous fee like 25¢ or 50¢ a text. Same for call minutes. You were constantly clock and usage watching. I got one bill for almost $500. Ouch.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

My little brother ran up an $80 texting bill and I wanted to beat him like a dog, but I didn't.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Man, of only Wet Ass Pussy existed back in those days, I feel like actually finding porn on a .WAP site would have been incredibly easy.

I had a Razr myself; after having a Sidekick. Going back to that shitty mobile web browsing experience fucking sucked. Even if you managed to find boobs on it, they're gonna be low resolution and lack a lot of color.

Unless the dude means the smartphone remake of the Razr? Or he used the OG even after the iPhone came out? He said he racked up a data bill but, like... They didn't have "data" service back then. They had talk and text. Maybe 3 or 4 phones even had real internet stuff for power users, and it was slow as fuck because you're using the incredibly slow cell network.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it was quantumlink (aol's predecessor, for the c64) chat rooms for me. dad was long gone by then. qlink was linked to my own bank account, so i felt it in a different way. for 'porn' the most accessible thing was a simple hack for c64 strip poker so they started out nekked.

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Did you happen to watch Halt and Catch Fire?

It was clear that Mutiny was Quantum Link.

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