the way you ordered computers and parts in this period (as far as I know) is you would get a giant catalogue called PCShopper that was entirely ads selling hardware. it was sad to see it get thinner and thinner, later my dad gave me a budget and let me pick out everything myself
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1997: my first MMO, Subspace amazing game. sort of like spaceship bumper cars where you also shoot bullets and bombs. could play in an arena with hundreds of others over dialup--really a feat
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i also make my first web page, crafting the html by hand host it on angelfire its about Final Fantasy 7, composed entirely of stolen jpgs and featuring a nauseating wavy blue background my mother gets a sense that a separate Internet culture exists and it makes her nervous
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also this year, my city is destroyed by a flood and i watch a live webcam of the river from 300 miles away it may not have been _that_ live; i think it uploaded a grainy still image every 5 minutes
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the ubiquity of video content today is jarring when i think about it the older web was a much stiller place. I wonder how the change has affected us
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1998: i am desperately lonely at middle school. at home i play Diablo and hang out in some high schoolers' chat trying to understand their drama i read cnn to try to understand what is happening in the balkans in real time. my interest in the world has been kindled by Durant
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im using GameFAQs at this point as I've found out about emulators. i start jrpgs with final fantasy i on Nesticle this sort of project was what internet misfits were up topic.twitter.com/nd0u5xF9se
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"want to play in the best-in-class emulator for NES games? just double click this deez nuts" this is the kind of incredible energy internet culture had at this pointpic.twitter.com/w8rXHbPSvq
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2001: i remember newgrounds videos from this era. alex chiu was a popular meme. he sold aura magnets that granted the wearer immortality napster had been broken on the wheel so i think i was using kazaa to get music you could also see more architecture creeping onto the web
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