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I was around during the stone age of the internet (slrpnk.net)

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I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't even know my online banking password.

Password managers ftw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm in the same boat. One password. TO RULE THEM ALL

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Well, hopefully MFA too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh man. In 1997 a sweet looking car Called a Plymouth Prowler came out and little tween me made my aim name, email, and eventually ebay name Prowler1234 (numbers changed).

I never thought about how totally sketch it was to be on aim and in forums with the screen name Prowler. Lol

It's still my ebay account name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Well, at least you didn't really like the Adidas Predator's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I remember when those came out! They were so cool because they looked like a car from a video game lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn't have it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

AOL didn't want you to reuse them so they didn't have the tab

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Correct. Any disks that the company didn't want erased, like marketing disks, didn't have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Same principle as with cassettes/music tapes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The golden age of getting lego island and roller coaster tycoon with my froot loops. Now all I get is diabetes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Changing IRQs on my modem using jumpers. Good times...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember getting AOL CDs fucking everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I once pulled down my pants to take a shit and a fucking AOL CD popped out of my ass crack.

[–] moosetwin 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the people in the comments really do be just giving their bank passwords away

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Joke's on you. We have no money in there anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So... who else has an aol email for his Steam account name?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The main thing I remember about AOL way back when is that you only got a certain amount of hours to use it per month and if you went over they started charging extra

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

In addition to that you had to pay for the dialup itself too…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hah, half of one of my passwords is the username from my dialup ISP from about 98. Right in the feels.