Oh yeh, we used the internet too at that age but like you say on a 56k dial up connection you’d literally be waiting for an image to load, line after line, so magazines were preferable. ADSL ushered in the age of more easily accessed videos for us, we are probably a similar age xD
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grue@lemmy.world 8 hours agoI guess that’s what Gibson meant about the future not being evenly distributed. As also a millennial (and an older one, at that) I got all my porn from the Internet when I was that age, albeit having to wait for individual images to load at 56kbps at first.
You can imagine how excited I was for my household to get DSL, LOL!
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And before the Internet, we were jacking it to the Sears catalog.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There was a time when people were beating it to this:
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We’ve always had and used porn.