Internet Old

[author_by_night]

Internet Old: Being one who may be young biologically, physically and mentally, but was logged on before it was cool to be logged on.

You know you're Internet Old when...

1. You know The Llama song by heart.

2. Someone says "Three Year Summer" and you immediately know what they're talking about.

3. You had an MSN email address that you checked more than once a week.

4. You remember when forums were "Bulletin Boards."

5. You have a fake name on Facebook or use your middle name as a surname because, you know, anyone could really be a sixty year old man. Even your twelve year old niece who loves horses and Justin Bieber.

6. You correct people's netspeak, or have to keep yourself from doing so.

7. You had a Geocities page.

8. You think tumblr, Facebook and twitter are killing social media, not leading social media.

9. You know how to create an AIM Chat Room.

10. You had an Unofficial ______ Fan Page.

11. You remember when Unofficial Fan Pages got threatened.

12. You use the word "wank" on Facebook and realize it only means one thing there. Oops.

13. You went to bored.com.

14. You were on a mailing list and/or usenet.

15. You knew the emails from Nigeria were a scam before everyone else did.

16. You laugh when people think CafeWorld is an internet game.



Anyone care to add? I may make a "master list," heh.

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Finally, a way I can still be considered young!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh, so true! I still AM on several mailing lists :-) (And not on Facebook, because it's evil.)

You automatically capitalise Internet and sometimes still type e-mail.
You still sometimes refer to it as the Information Super Highway, to general blank looks.
You have at least once reminisced about the Arpanet, forgetting that it was in fact so complicated to dial in that you had several ill-considered affairs with computer scientists in an effort to collaborate with international researchers while working on your thesis before Tim Berners-Lee made Everything Better.
You know who Tim Berners-Lee is.
You remember Mosaic.

[13oct.livejournal.com]

LOL I can say yes to most of this. I also loath fb.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the memories! I was humming the Llama song yesterday. Because dA lets you give free llamas to people.

It's weird. I do NOT consider myself an early adopter. Yet, thinking about it, we were probably the first family in a mile radius to own a personal computer, and I had an email address in the mid-90s.

Recently, I was talking to a college student and mentioned "in the computer lab", and I paused a moment as it occurred to me: do they still have computer labs? I think most of them got folded into libraries.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Good question... I'd say labs are often either specific to a department, a lounge with one computer in it, or more social than anything else. That's pretty much how it is at my school - the one "collective" lab, if you will, is more of an area for people to hang out while they work on stuff. Everything else seems to be specific to a department. Libraries also seem to serve the purpose of a lab, although we don't have our own library on campus so for us at least we still mostly go for research purposes, whereas the lab tends to be to type/print stuff up and check your email.

[lukecanwaltz88.livejournal.com]

Hahahah yup, I remember these. I'd add that "If you type www. before the URL, you're internet-old." Because I do. Haha!

[snorkackcatcher]

And if you type http:// before the www, you're REALLY internet-old. :D

[dotty.livejournal.com]

Hah, yes, this! Took me ages to remember I don't need to type all that anymore.

[dotty.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't fit half of these and I started going online when I was about 10 (1995). XD Also, I feel like anyone who even knows there WAS a time when being online was not considered cool = Internet Old? That should atleast be on the list!

I'd also add something about IRC, ICQ and still being able to hum the dial-up connection tune on cue.

[quinns-crossing.livejournal.com]

I still have my hotmail address, which is owned by MSN.

Then there were the days of "parentsoup" or "parentsplace" bulletin boards.

I gave up on chat rooms pretty quickly. Too many nasty jerks there!