What was the world like before mass adoption of the internet? I cannot fathom my everyday life without it, how did people discuss video games ?
What was the world like before mass adoption of the internet? I cannot fathom my everyday life without it...
Ethan Butler
Jeremiah Cooper
It was fun pretending to be a glowie in AOL chatrooms.
>how did people discuss video games
GameFAQs has been around since the late 90s. It was the prime place to shitpost about vidya before the zoomers took over
Jose Hughes
with irl friends and brothers, you'll never understand what giving and receiving unbiased opinions feels like, the internet has caused more harm than help in the long run
Juan Cooper
How old are you
Hudson Lee
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Cameron Cooper
I remember being bored a lot
Christopher Hernandez
you just talk about what was fun with your friends. you can still do that irl today and it's still the best way to share opinions about video games.
talking about video game opinions online is just an avenue for shills to do stealth marketing bullshit. it's never worth it. the only video game discussion worth having online is objective stuff like 'I'm stuck here' or 'how do I do blah' and etc.
Benjamin Sullivan
I miss it every day.
Jordan Ward
Selen will never be a boomer. SWNBAB.
Mostly, as was mentioned, we talked to friends and family. borrowing cartridges and reading magazines was very common. I didn't have internet until the early 00s and forums were formalized by then, so I dunno what it was like in the 90s internet.
Hudson Cooper
There were loads of video game magazines people were subscribed to. But considering the state of video game journalism, any worthwhile journal should be a brand new name, you won't catch me buying the Polygon Weekly or Eurogamer Monthly LOL
Other than that, just know that the internet as it's used today will gradually disappear.
Every time a dopamine goldmine is introduced too quickly in a society, it's used and abused until the customs and taboos get developed to stop it.
The Brits introduced opium to the chinks and it took them decades to stop it.
Alcohol was introduced to american indians and they've been ridden with alcoholism for a while.
Etc etc.
As such, you can bet that using the internet more than an hour per day or so will be really socially unacceptable in a decade or so considering how quickly it's damaging young people with unrestricted access to it. From easy access to an endless stream of hardcore pornography and video games fucking boys up, an equal flow of social judgment making girls feel inappropriate all the time, and the generation of extremist echo-chambers, you can bet that slowly but surely, it will be regulated.
I took a course in the cross-section of law/tech and it clearly shows that governments have an interest in developing the tools requires to monitor the internet MUCH more than it is today (think needing to employ ID-linked credentials to log in to the internet and more), the freedom granted to the internet was simply a matter of economics, and the "social" websites benefited from the same privileges because lawmakers couldn't reliably separate them, but the solutions are coming gradually, thanks in part to the centralization towards certain platforms.
All in all, enjoy watching a meme compilation while scrolling Any Forums and listening to your favorite underground music album because (>) your children probably never will, for the better or worst.
Noah Johnson
>mass adoption of the internet
fuck smartphones
Hudson Nelson
Wuv me sum wamy
Angel Sullivan
when is this lazy FUCK going to give us the big one
Nicholas Lee
With my friends, duh
Less shitposting, more playing video games
Colton Cox
We would talk about it at school or go to each others houses and play video games
Benjamin Anderson
people talked to their friends IRL
Colton Thompson
it's because they actually played video games. (we don't do that anymore, they all suck)
Andrew Taylor
[distant, bassy, echoing fart noise]
Zachary Lewis
I discussed it in school based on the games we had and stuff we saw on magazines, but it was a much more shallow discussion, basically just praising a game or boasting about your skills, or some rumour you heard somewhere or made up, I never had any discussion about games as an industry before the internet
Angel Reed
>how did people discuss video games ?
With phones.
Asher Walker
Went out and actually talked to other kids. I remember having 2 school friends think I was some kind of wizard because I had the internet and could access GameFaqs and was able to tell them which CDs/DVDs to use to get rare shit in Monster Rancher.