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Yes, this is what people did back then

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Submitted ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • tomo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Two chicks at the same time

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Try to find that cool looking Beavis and Butthead site I saw my brother browsing in the earliest days of our internet access. I had asked him where he found it and he couldn’t remember, so I searched and searched and searched to no avail. I never found that Beavis and Butthead site. I just remember there was a lot of yellow.

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  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Go to all the live gigs, then invest. Probably steal PayPal.

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Play a Diku or Circle MUD on the local library BBS

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  • askat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Go back to sleep

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Masturbate, back to sleep.

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    • ErrorCode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      This is the correct answer.

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  • anas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you wake up as you are now, or as you were back then? I didn’t exist in 1995.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m sure you were still a twinkle in your parents’ eyes. And I don’t envy what you’re about to see.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Start prepping for some strategic tech investments.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Butterfly effect, your investments changes the fate of the companies you invest in.

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      • arrow74@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        In terms of the global economy I doubt any of us could raise enough capital to impact corporate strategy

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      • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GOOD, i didn’t want those companies to succeed anyway

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cell phones existed in 1995. They were expensive and just used for making phone calls, tho.

    Had the internet tho. I’d be playing Doom or checking out Usenet forums.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Making actual phone calls‽ The horror!

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OOOH Look at Mister FANCY PANTS with his dial up internet. You must be rich, Mister Fancy Pants.

      I think I had AOL at the time…

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    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone had mobiles in 1995, they were like $300 The Australian mobile network started in 1982

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  • Lorindol@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d hug my mom. Then I’d go ask the pretty next door girl for a date; I lesrned later in life that she also had a crush on me at the time, but since I was plain looking and slightly overweight nerd I never thought I’d hsve any chance with her.

    After getting that out of my system I’d do the obligatory investing.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1995? Springer and the price is right in the morning (Bob Barker baby!) then Aladdin, Batman/Superman, Animaniacs and the Simpsons in the afternoon.

    In-between all we get 90s commercials!

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Please tell me it’s Friday, because that means the evening is Family Matters or Sliders, Boy Meets World, Step by Step, and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      holy cow, I lived the afternoon half of that

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d walk out to the street then light me up that cigarette and strap shoes on my feet.

    I’d probably try to find a reason where everything went wrong. I’d really like to find a reason why my money is all gone.

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    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You got a dog? Still smoke?

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        and I can still play the guitar like a mother fuckin riot.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You do mean your fee-f-f-f-feet?

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  • zanyllama52@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hang out with my grandparents, ask them everything. I miss them.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First thing? Honestly, probably curl into the fetal position and start bawling for a while as I fully relax for the first time since circa 2007.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      P.S. it’s April 19th and you’re currently relaxing in the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building. Enjoy your well-earned R&R!

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  • PaulBunyan@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Take my routine morning shit. But instead of my phone I’m reading the label on the back of any bottle I can reach from the throne.

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  • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1995…

    I was 10 years old and in the 5th grade.

    And I remember everything, huh? Hoo boy. Hoooo boyyyyy.

    First thing I do is write this list while it’s still fresh in my mind:

    1. ADHD is real and it will ruin my potential if I don’t face it head on. The medication won’t work on me yet, though, so tell Mom and Dad I NEED to get back on medication when my brain is more developed in a couple years.
    2. Also, for future reference: it isn’t actually a deficit of ATTENTION at all–it’s really stupidly named by neurotypicals who don’t fucking get it–it’s TIME BLINDNESS and a deficit of IMPULSE CONTROL and EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.
    3. Sugar is going to make me extremely sick and all my weight and fitness issues come directly from carbohydrate overdose. STOP drinking soda, and avoid refined/homogenized starch!
    4. I’m about to enter the most painful and traumatizing stage of my formative years. The middle school I’ll be attending starting 6th grade will be hell on earth. I need to keep my FUCKING mouth shut and not talk to ANYONE unless they talk to me. I also need to practice the skill of mindful dissociation and compartmentalization. Stoicism will be my only shelter.
    5. Yes the adults around me are morons and don’t know what they’re talking about, but broken clocks can be right twice a day. In this case, they’re correct about homework and studying being important for the wrong reasons: It is NOT about satisfying the expectations of teachers, but rather it is entirely for practicing the skill of internalizing and recalling information. I will not regret time I spend on it.
    6. Mom and Dad are struggling financially right now. Dad’s racking up debt while Mom is the only reliable source of income. That’s why they would “hold onto” my birthday and xmas money “for safekeeping”. it is neither kept nor safe; it’s gone. All of it. HIDE ANY MONEY I RECEIVE… and tell grandpa to buy stock in Apple.
    7. Express early interest in nuclear energy and pursue it with everything I’ve got. Approach via Mechanical Engineering. I’ll enjoy Computer Aided Drafting in High School.
    8. Remember the major incidents to come: Columbine and zero tolerance policy in 1999, also dotcom bubble crash, Al Gore will lose in 2000, WTC will be destroyed by a terrorist attack 2001-09-11, Bush Jr administration will cause the housing market to crash as well by 2008, America succumbs to Fascism in 2016, and there will be a global plague in 2020.
    9. I’m a furry and I am not actually a boy despite being assigned male at birth. Embrace androgyny. Get online. Find my tribe. Draw a lot.
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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Register google dot com

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They would just pick another dumb name, like Stample or Croakle and we’d be stuck Croaking things

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What was I doing in 1995?

    I would wake up, pour some Frosted Flakes and play Donkey Kong Country.

    What would I do now?

    Go outside and take a slow walk through my old neighborhood and probably cry.

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  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Take a big shit since I can’t shitpost

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do I wake up at 6 years old? Or as I am now, but in '95?

    Doesn’t matter, I’m watching fuckin POWER RANGERS.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am I stupid or is this sentence unparseable?

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does it have to be one or the other?

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I didn’t say xor.

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  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really miss summers without wildfire smoke.

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  • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The first question is what kind of time am I in? Is it a ‘We are all going to die and I need to fix it’ or a ‘I need to grow as a person to get out’. If it’s the first one then I need to figure out when Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein are both going to be one of his flights to Epstein’s island and find a way to blow up the plane. If it’s the second one I guess do the same thing as that’s got to be good karma.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have thought about this over the years. If I am in a loop, it’s “which PhD am I doing this lifetime?” or “so I guess I am going to be the world’s best cabinetmaker this round.”

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  • graycube@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fire up my PC and hit the dial up to check my email and BBS’s.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      BBS’s

      You can still do that, if you want.

      • SDF (shameless plug) is still around
      • Tildeverse, a loose association of pubnixes exists
      • Gopher and Gemini (a protocol inspired by Gopher) have had some minor resurgence.
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    • graycube@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also go outside to grab my paper to read the comics first.

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    • isgleas@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ascii nudes art

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        :::spoiler NSFW
        (.)(.)
        :::

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Will you use Turbo mode?

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  • cmeu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Log on to BBS, play LORD and post to forums with local users, maybe chat a bit. Fire up sirdoom, waste a few bozos with a BFG. Drive to my buddies house maybe smoke some weed…

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Party like it’s 1999!

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I buy relevant stocks to make me rich and revel in the fact that there is no internet again. I am 68 and have been there and done that already.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, anyone who answers with anything besides “invest in the tech companies you know will get huge, then get into bitcoin early and ride it all the way to $100k each” is going to fail to thrive.

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Am I a grown adult that wakes up in a foster care home and the child that was there previously is gone?
    Do I have to spend the rest of my life without an identity, or clinging to the “delusion” that I was this child that mysteriously disappeared?

    Am I a child with 40 years of life experience?
    Not long after, When I was 14, my first consensual sexual experience involved an 18-year-old. We got caught, and folks widely regard/regarded her as being inappropriate/in the wrong. Huh. First girlfriend, high school dances/romances. College. Jesus - every relationship basically forever.
    If I proceed down the same path, does that mean I’m the creep now?

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    jerk it

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