• RickyRigatoniOP
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.

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      Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a whopping 6% of the american population in 99.

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            1 year ago

            why are you taking this so seriously go outside and touch some grass boy

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            In 99 we only had crappy dialup and I didn’t really know how to browse the web, even if I sort of understood the basics (and I would have been six, admittedly). My dad would look up cheat codes at work for games I was playing and download the Web page onto a floppy drive to bring home to me. It was wild times.

            That to say, the infrastructure was all there, but it’s hardly guaranteed as a kid that you’re browsing the web and know where to find all the best glitches.