I was born in the early 90s but wasn’t able to afford a laptop until college. Can I be grandfathered in? :(
Depends. Did you ever play Oregon Trail on it?
No, sadly.
Unless you memorized your 14 digit library card number so you could log into the public computers you are off my friends list
Well shit. See you later then. I’ll see myself out!
Or, banning everyone who did.
I will fight you.
I’m a lover not a fighter
What if we kissed by the burning dumpster fire of Twitter?
Unless you painstakingly made your own AIM icon gif by slightly editing still images in photoshop that you had to export using imageready and then crush into oblivion to fit the file size limit you are dead to me
Legit point, but did you use a telnet talker before AOL?
I did not so I guess we can’t chill:(
That was before web browsers!
Pffft. Proper chat happened in telnet based MUDs back in the day!
That’s what I used!
I was on LionMUD. Which was based on circle I think.
The Keep! Was mostly gay guys and college kids. I still have friends from there.
Where’s my Xanga peeps at?
Young me had never seen so much gay porn scrolling through xanga. And then they had to go and ruin it.
embarrassingly raises hand
Well, I guess that’s me signing off. I just had GeoCities.
Does Blogger count?
No
K, just checking… for a friend
Live journal?
Early social networking blog/journal
Banned
Straight to jail.
Still exists! Russian-owned now.
View it as it was on November 27, 1999 courtesy the amazing nonprofit (donation supported!) Archive.org.
