Am i the only person who is driven insane by the insinuation that WiFi is synonomous with ‘having the internet’?
No. It’s the Chromebook/iPad generation. I feel like they don’t truly understand the Internet or computers. Having used Windows 98 and onward, my friends and I had to really learn to troubleshoot and learn the innards of the system. Nowadays, everyone is in a protective shell like Chrome OS, iOS or Android. It’s all dumbed down now. Simplicity isn’t always good imo
Edit: Windows was a gateway drug into Linux
Buy AAPL
Then start plotting buy/sell points for bitcoin and GME (don’t want to risk forgetting those over the next 15-25 years)
Ninjaedit: and real estate right after the 2008 crash
Two chicks at the same time
“That’s what you’d do if you had a million dollars?”
“Hell yeah man, always wanted to do that.”That feels easier now than then
Your comment reminded me that many times this was my go to activity. GF was BI and enjoyed me interacting with her and her various girlfriends.
Boot up my dad’s computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.
Or go to the library I guess.
I was probably playing Cannon Fodder at that time on our computer.
d: cd games cd cannon (space)(space)(F3)I still like going to the library and reading real books
Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man I couldn’t picture this
50" inch screen, money green leather sofa
Go online, just like I did back then. I’ve been online before the web. And it was more fun. And no ads.
I didn’t go online when I first woke up. I often though would check see how my downloads did overnight. In 95 I was still using the local collage dial in.
At least, we had a leased line of 38400 bits per second for the whole department. ;-)
For a time around 1998-2000 I ran the internet connection for a multi county agency on one 56k dial up and squid proxy server. It worked and it worked pretty well. We did however love it when the local cable company finally rolled out two way cable internet.
Invest in Apple.
Apple, Amazon… Plenty of others to choose from that were considered joke stocks for some reason
Cell phones existed in 1995. They were expensive and just used for making phone calls, tho.
Had the internet too. I’d be playing Doom or checking out Usenet forums.
OOOH Look at Mister FANCY PANTS with his dial up internet. You must be rich, Mister Fancy Pants.
I think I had AOL at the time…
AOL was dial-up.
Of course it was. I had it.
Apologies, I misread the tone of your comment. I thought you were jokingly saying dial up was fancy while you had to deal with AOL. I didn’t read it as two different statements as I should have.
Sorry I work in tech and may take things for granted.
Making actual phone calls‽ The horror!
Nice use of the interrobang!
Everyone had mobiles in 1995, they were like $300 The Australian mobile network started in 1982
The Australian mobile network was CB radio until 2015.
I’d walk out to the street then light me up that cigarette and strap shoes on my feet.
I’d probably try to find a reason where everything went wrong. I’d really like to find a reason why my money is all gone.
You got a dog? Still smoke?
and I can still play the guitar like a mother fuckin riot.
Life is too short so love the one you got cause you might die of overdose on your wedding night after signing that big contract like a big fucking dumbass
You do mean your fee-f-f-f-feet?
I’d hug my mom. Then I’d go ask the pretty next door girl for a date; I lesrned later in life that she also had a crush on me at the time, but since I was plain looking and slightly overweight nerd I never thought I’d hsve any chance with her.
After getting that out of my system I’d do the obligatory investing.
I really miss summers without wildfire smoke.
Buy Apple stock.
Am I stupid or is this sentence unparseable?
Does it have to be one or the other?
I didn’t say xor.
[Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There’s] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What’s] the first thing you do?
you’ve omitted “just.” If “just” were not in the sentence I would have instinctively filled it in with the missing words you’ve suggested. But I can’t reconcile “just” with any parse.
True. English isn’t my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the “just” is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They’re basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.
Sometimes people ask “Just why?”, and that’s a bit different than only “Why?”, because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.
That makes sense, and “just” is a filler word in English. I can see why in another language like German this would work fine. But in English, at least to me, this seems exceptionally clunky. The simplest explanation is simply that “just” isn’t generally used in a context where “what” is been elided, but maybe there’s a deeper reason why it sounds odd to me.
First thing? Honestly, probably curl into the fetal position and start bawling for a while as I fully relax for the first time since circa 2007.
P.S. it’s April 19th and you’re currently relaxing in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Enjoy your well-earned R&R!
Oof! Hey, at least on the bright side it would be an extended repose.
Boot up my 486, call over my friends and play MK1
Alternatively make some new M:TG decks using my new Ice Age booster packs and head to the FLGS
