im going to be wrong about some dates and you can decide whether its deliberate obfuscation or whether im just fucking it up in my recollection
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1990: my parents get a shareware catalogue (you could order diskettes with shareware for cheap, and shipped to you) and I discover Commander Keen and id software. incredible stuff. played it on an 286 machine my dad picked up used for $200. had a VGA monitor, important
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1992: i get access to the internet for the first time through my parents' university account. i can barely read, but they give me directions to log onto GOPHER via DOS I use Archie + Veronica to look for information about stars which id recently learned came in different colors
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I also had my first encounter with internet porn via some bizarre story an undergrad had left in a directory somewhere, about a good female plug going to a bad part of town where she was taken advantage of by a ruffian male plug to this day i dont know what he was getting at
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1994: the web exists. i spend hours watching my 28.8k modem, monopolizing our phone line, praying the connection wouldnt disconnect before my warcraft 2 demo download (10MB) completed, which would mean i would have to start from scratch
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around this time i encounter an early blog, a warcraft 2 site and also personal log of someone going by the improbable name of Shlonglor i wont reveal his name but i understand he went on to join blizzard on the strength of his web design and enthusiasm
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shlonglor, to the best of my knowledge, invented the concept of Smurfing on Kali, which was sort of a battlenet before battlenet his crew got too well known, so they would play with variations on "[X]Smurf" as handles to surprise and stomp randos
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1996: my mom gets tired of me asking for SimCity2000 and tells me that she'll get it for me if I read Moby Dick i read moby dick that summer and my mom has a week of peace we get a windows 95 machine with a pentium chip (I think 120MHz) for $1700
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
I learned everything I knew about PC hardware from adverts in "Computer Shopper" which was the UK equivalent.
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oh you know it may have been Computer Shopper here too. fuzzy memory.
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