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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to technology@hexbear.netEnglish • 2 years ago

The "pre-internet" times

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The "pre-internet" times

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] to technology@hexbear.netEnglish • 2 years ago
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https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/pre-internet-pay-phones-digital-online-cellphones-vintage-nostalgia

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    36•2 years ago

    Video games came with manuals that had sections for notes and people actually put notes in there, this was before youtube walkthroughs.

    • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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      18•2 years ago

      renting final fantasy 2 at blockbuster that had an end game save on it

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        14•2 years ago

        Same memory but with FF3/6

    • @CodeName@infosec.pub
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      7•2 years ago

      There were those printed guides for the bigger games. I remember walking down to the mall and checking the guide when I got stuck in Tomb Raider 2. Gamefaqs has been around since 1995, I wasn’t online til, I think 98 or 99.

      • goose [he/him]
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        4•2 years ago

        In full color! With glossy pages! Get one of those and a November EGM and you’re set

    • DrCrustacean [any]
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      4•2 years ago

      Nowadays kids just have Tunic smh

    • Southloop [he/him]
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      3•2 years ago

      Your library of self-made notebooks were the pelts on the wall of your past game conquests.

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