Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as I’m concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.
LOAD “*”, 8, 1Honestly it feels new to me too. I just thought the meme would spark some nostalgia for all us old(er) people who like to complain about the youngsters
Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.
I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
Somehow I’m using the default wallpaper on both w10 and android since I’m older, I just don’t care anymore while before it used to be very important lol
Images you can hear
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I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.
Random tangent, my dad edited the system file that contained that message to “It’s not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
I myself was a Norton commander enjoyer
Man, I am even older than this.
Multiple times I was disconnected in the middle of a Starcraft match over our 56k modem… because my dad was getting a goddamned fax sent to him over the same line.
These are all fancy pants, high res … XP, i think?.. icons compared to Win 95 and 98.
Now excuse me while I teleport back in time and jack back in to the Matrix Online beta via an actual telephone line… we didn’t even get DSL untill a year or two after it fully released.
Going fully angry old man mode:
You whippersnappers have absolutely no clue what pain is.
Pain is playing Battlefield 1942 on a 56k modem with literally zero servers you can connect to being under 150 ping, the vast majority of them being 200, 300+.
Those packets had to march across shitty rural phone lines uphill, both ways! And a storm would throw a tree onto them every 3 weeks!
Pain is your shitty eMachine being so underpowered that the only way you can actually play through HL2 is all settings at minimum, and then also when Alyx is getting teleported out of Kleiner’s lab, you have to look at the ground, because the 8 or so particles with bloom that spin around her, + the flashing color negative post processing effect… is too fucking difficult for your moldy, sprouting potato of a pc to run without CTDing or even segfaulting.
you’re like 40. There are people here who played Maze War.
About half a decade younger than that, just picked up pc gaming as a hobby at a young age.
But yes, I know that there are many significantly older gamer folks / tech dorks here on lemmy… but there are also now a lot of Gen Z folks, and even some Gen A… who just actually did not ever experience the ‘pre-internet’ era at all.
It gets difficult for me to manage my age perception whiplash at times.
I apparently look young enough that people irl, only 10 years older than me (or less) still refer to me as ‘a bright young man with my whole future ahead of me’, as if I’m in my early 20s… while people 10 years younger than me refer to me as an ancient elder gamer online, and irl, once I tell them my actual age, oh now I’m an uncle, I’m an old man.
??? confused millenial noises ???
Battlefield 1942 because you played the game in 1942, eh?
Ok so… hear me out.
You know how the common aphorism for dog years is that 1 dog year is 7 human years?
BF 1942 came out in 2002.
60 year difference.
…
I hereby propose a ‘Gamer Age’ formula:
(Real Age - Youngest Age you first put over 50 hours into a single game) * 6
…
So if you are now 40, and you mainlined Starcraft when it came out in 1998, your gamer age is 78… pretty old, seen a lot of shit in your time.
If you are 20, and broke 50 hours into Fortnite at age 14 (when Fortnite first released), your gamer age is 36… middle aged, been around the block a few times.
If you are 16, and broke 50 hours in Fortnite when you were 14… your gamer age is 12 (lol), you are still a little nooblet in terms of gaming experience.
If you are 60, and put 50 hours into a Pacman cabinet when it came out in 1980… gamer age is 240, true elder, arcane wizard status.
If you are Lord British (Richard Garriot), and you use the release date of the first game he developed (Akalabeth) as the 50hr game…
He works out to a minimum of 276, which is almost certainly a low estimate… by my reckoning, he could potentially be as old as 330…
…few know such things precisely, such is the nature of a truly ancient one, hahaha.
…
If I run this for myself… first game I put more than 50 hours into would have been… Sonic 3 / Sonic & Knuckles, think I broke the 50 hour mark in '96…
So… my gamer age works out to 174.
Unnaturally old, by no means the eldest of the wizened ones, but considerably more experienced than most would guess by my physical form, rofl.
…
Now, this isn’t a perfect metric, as … you could argue the 50 hour threshold should be some other number… and that it doesn’t account for people who have played a whole lot of games, but only a single playthrough… so it is kind of biased toward ‘hardcore’ gamers…
But it does seem roughly in line with the way online lingo and vocabulary and memes seem to work.
And also, non ‘hardcore’ gamers are probably not going to care about any kind of ‘gamer age’ metric.
…
Thoughts? Suggestions? Critiques?
When your starcraft LAN matches keep lagging out on the default option IPX. You try the other option but it says not installed. So you have to figure out how to reconfigure your network adapter in windows 98 to use this new thing called TCP/IP. You’re in middle school and youtube doesn’t exist.
… You go to the GameFAQ board to ask for help, rofl.
EDIT:
Blam, you timewarp 25 years into the future and realize… holy shit, Blizzard could have built Battle.net into Steam before Valve did, but they completely went all in with WoW instead.
EDIT 2:
You warp back to the late 90s, and are extremely confused as to why the ‘replay’ of your last Starcraft game diverges into a whole ass alternate reality after about the 3 minute mark of a 90ish minute match.
Win7 isn’t that old.
People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver’s license in many parts of the world
you take that back
Fuck I’m old.
What’s all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.
Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.
You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Ah. LOGO.
Oh man! I had no clue what the program was called. We used it way back in my kindergarten/1st grade days, so I’d long forgotten the specifics. Thank you! This is exactly it.
Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
The oldest Millennials are 44 now, and the term is still sometimes used to mean “young people.” But only by older people.
Are you also a member of the ‘Oregon Trail and Number Munchers on the school computer lab’s Apple II’s’ club?
Along with like… KidPix, lol?
Or am I a bit younger than you?
Ok, boomer
1: You a veteran?
2: Yes. No. I don’t wanna talk about it.
Camera zooms in on 2, fades to montage:
MiG 21 thundering overhead at tree top levels, while blasting ‘Hush’, which is being comically raised in pitch to squeaking chipmunk levels as it approaches, and then instantly downshifts by two octaves into quaalude voice after it passes overhead… it is being pursued by an f4 phantom who fires off all of his seeking missiles in a quick burst, all of which guide themselves into your convoy of m113s, as well as a nearby mortar emplacement
squad is slowly advancing through Hue with no resistance thus far… and then suddenly, from 3 different directions, VC on mopeds, blasting ‘Surfin Bird’ and headbanging maniacally, rapidly approach the unit… 2 are shot, but one makes it through, moped detonates with the force of 4 bundles of TNT
… rocket pod armed mi8s and hueys pieroutting around each other in the night sky, throwing unguided rockets everywhere, taking out ground bound friend and foe alike, both ultimately running out if ammo and then crashing into the ground sideways and upside down…
Camera pops back to 2, slowly zooms out.
2: … I don’t … don’t wanna talk about it.
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge
Oh man, I found chip’s challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldn’t remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodent’s revenge!
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new icons…
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
I mean, I’m in my early 40s and I’ve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
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In my early 30’s. Started with W95. But did dabble in dos sometimes
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture 😅
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
I’m in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn’t missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂
We were born in the 80s. But people around me that are younger like to say I was born in the 1900s to make me feel extra special
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I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.
