knzkate
seriously tho I really do have a theory that everyone here had a little too much unsupervised internet time a little too young. if true 4 u, boost 4 science.
Aug 23, 2018 at 4:17pmWeb
Show threadted knszkyAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate i didnt touch a computer until 6 years ago and ive regretted it ever since
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@naturefan big mistake. HUGE.
Show threadTtleAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate one of my great shames is being a forum moderator at age 15. That's too young!
Show threadundead accountAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate if u didnt pretend to be 30something on forums when u were like 11 u had no childhood
Show threadSkip Intro, KRUB News at 9Aug 23, 2018
@pbandkate I was racking up long distance bills by dialing in to BBSes in other states when I was 11 or 12. My parents had no idea what I was doing and I had free reign. It just got worse when we got a cable modem.
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@breakfastgolem i once broke into my moms email to delete one of those “if you don’t stop pirating we’re gunna shut off your internet” emails before she could see it.
Show threadthe peemo archivesAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate my family computer had parental controls up the wazoo. we used the AOL browser that you had to log into and I couldn't get internet explorer to work. so one time i tried using one of those AOL trial discs to make a new account to get around the parental blocks, and i got caught because it overwrote everyone else's AOL accounts and I didn't know how to restore them. the username that i picked was "bobmickeymouse"
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@peemobil thats fuxking spectacular
Show threadsue in brooklynAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate @peemobil lol yes. i’m old enough that IN MY 20s i had aol dial up & it was by the minute.
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate didn’t used the internet until I was 10 when a cyber cafe was opened by our neighbors and I would go there almost everyday to play flash games on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network websites
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@theinternet ugh yes when I was young and my dad had to bring me to work for whatever reason he would just plop me in front of the screen and it was cartoon network dot com for me the whoooole time
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018

@pbandkate lol it was a great website

in my case I would only pay for like 30 minutes daily until I would get my computer with internet a few years later.

Show threadPox Aug 23, 2018
@pbandkate @theinternet did either of you play CN's Cartoon Orbit? where you'd earn digital stickers to make little pages of whatever characters you like from their shows? god that was the SHIT!
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018
@revpox @pbandkate ohh I don’t think I ever came across that but that sounds cool as hell
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@revpox @theinternet oh shit I THINK SO. I have very specific memories of a grim adventures game, which like, what a show
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate @revpox this is just giving me living memories of waiting for the flash shockwave bar to fill up while loading
Show threadPox Aug 23, 2018
@theinternet @pbandkate opening up the page and going to get a glass of chocolate milk while this bad boy loaded up ​
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@revpox @theinternet oh fuck yeah look at that PRODUCT DESIGN
Show threadToots O'BryanAug 23, 2018
@revpox @theinternet @pbandkate oh my god
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018
@revpox @pbandkate wanna do that right now
Show threadPox Aug 23, 2018
@theinternet @pbandkate a lot of the games are still available with a quick google but you might need to install a version of firefox that's shockwave compatible (also googleable)
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@revpox @theinternet aw shit good thing im workin from home today baybeee!!
Show threadThe Internet ExplorerAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate @revpox hell yeah!!
Show threadKevin FediverseAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate probably true for me but I’m so old my teen internet was mostly AOL chat rooms
Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@natehousley i think “early chat room adopter” counts too
Show thread🔮⚡️ Way 💻☀️Aug 23, 2018
@pbandkate o yeah, I had my first computer at like 12 and it forever altered my psychological development
Show threadLee CremeansAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate no internet for me until I was 17-18, but I had plenty of screen time starting in elementary school
Show threaddrunk boatswain whiskey sailorAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate I didn't until college because we had per hour internet for most of my childhood and only one phone line. I didn't even have email till College
Show threadMen’s Wearhouse OfficialAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate Yup, and it came in the form of a game called inklink that rocketed me out of childhood and into finding out that people are out of their minds
Show threadKitteh Of ChaosAug 23, 2018

@pbandkate

Listen, whipper snapper, there WASN'T an internet when I was young.

Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@haikukitteh we respect those who paved the way for us 🙏
Show threadKitteh Of ChaosAug 23, 2018

@pbandkate

Much respect to those growing up with it actually. I can just imagine how I would have posted on the internet all the cringe-worthy shit I wrote down on paper.

Dodged a bullet there.

Show threadknzkateAug 23, 2018
@haikukitteh yeah my livejournal is still out there somewhere
Show threadFast Eddie, the tea guyAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate can't boost, it has 69 boosts and I don't want to be that guy
Show threadAngryTeapotAug 23, 2018
@pbandkate ye but just a little bit :))
Show threadLumbFeb 11, 2019
@pbandkate
Yeah and I had the good god damn sense to lie about my age back then too. I been 23 since I was like 12.
Show thread✨ Al 🎶Feb 11, 2019
@pbandkate i, an outlier, was the exact opposite