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What Was 90's Internet Really Like?

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0:01 Grandpa forgot to lock the door one time when you're opening the do you can hear the door you can hear like the carpet yeah and immediately he's like ah and then I just see on the screen is like out completely like you can see her vagina he is just trying to figure out how to close the window we had to go up and bu Grand all the with on the screen [Music] dude welcome back to another episode of careful boys today we're going to talk about and educate people a little bit about what was the internet like in the late '90s like 56k days it 56k or 288 288 whatever you you had 56k can I tell you what my experience was like mhm so I remember this is back in the

0:51 562 which is ceritos and there's only two reasons why you go online one to play tetron net oh tetr the other one to jack off and what sucks is um my mom only has one landline phone yeah so if you go online that phone goes so she knows I'm going online takes up the phone line yeah so I always have to wait like I have to go lay in bed pretend on I'm sleeping and then kind of wait until I think she fell asleep then I can slowly like go to my computer like in the darkness cuz she her her room could see if my room light is on yeah so I'll just be in the darkness come out of the bed put the ████ monitor that big in the back you know you had you had a computer in your in your room out of my room yeah sick as that's that's kind of

1:43 advanced cuz it was a family computer comp so the cool thing about my mom family computer no the cool the cool thing about my mom is if she thinks it's productive she'll get it for me only child remember so you so you sold it basically so she's like oh this is going to be smart or whatever you can do whatever yeah so she I I go online and then I would immediately go back to my bed cuz my cover up would be if she comes in like what was that oh computer just dialing up again ████ neck gear is going crazy or whatever dialing up again so I Would by itself so I would have my own like whole like little routine and then if it's online and then I would wait if it's still then I can go into either log into chat rooms or whatever and then pornos are literally just jpegs it's just so how would you get your how would you get your jpegs um do you remember boobs you have to look for it incognito mode type in boobs there's no incognito mode

2:34 incognito mode type in boobs and then click on the image tab you had to open up your ████ did ncape no one used Google back then too you were using like Yahoo or like you used to use go Yahoo for it you had to pick the motor no AOL AOL you go a was it forums was it Forum or no or chat rooms that's what it's called yeah I think chat rooms and then people will send you like a file and you open it and then there'll be like 200 Su High images or some ████ like that wow that's jackpot huh and you're like and then you got your jack body in the other end he's like hey we jacking tonight yeah's what we jacking what the heck you don't ever had a jack buddy a jack buddy yeah like a jack homie is just like hey let's Jack it together bro what are we jacking to tonight especially if you're might after my circle jerk no no no in the room is weird but on the web is cool it's really cool but yeah that was like

3:24 where nowadays you just have internet the fastest internet in the world on your phone is ████ crazy I could get boobs in 1 Second One Second One Second so what was your do you remember what your internet service provider was uh we had cuz you know there was so many back there yeah we had AOL for a long time Earth link remember Earth link Earth link yeah we had Road Runner you had Road Runner but maybe that was like in 2003 Netscape that was one of theme 2003 serve was one of them you had to have the modem that plugged into the phone line and it went to the power plug and then you get the a L CDD you download AOL remember that stacks of those things they would send them all the time threee hours that you couldn't even use in that time nobody could figure out how to use the hours yeah cuz it would be like 2500 free hours it use it in a month yeah okay how and then

4:16 back then on on AOL right you had to pay for it so what they do is they would you know kids would do they would learn credit card fraud or they would learn how to take the master screen name cuz under do you remember the master account would be able to create sub accounts so the first one would always be user 587 985 so unless so there'll be two ways to do it you could actually like take a credit card sign up for yourself and create your own account or what you can do is get the pass password for the master screen name and then you create a sub account and then you use that sub account so we were doing AOL for free back in the day I use my ja how does that make it free it's free because so like let's say I fish for your password right I I pretend like I'm AOL and I'm like Ryan and uh you need to

5:06 sign back on and and and and whatever so I get your password and then I'm hoping that you have the master account cuz remember with the master account you can make new screen names but aren't aren't those still being paid for by you I stole your password you have the master I make a screen name under your account and then I sign in under that but if you're old guy or whatever you don't know how it works you don't know that I have a sub account another way to do it is I would fish you for your credit card account and then with the credit card I just open up a new account until they find out that it's it's fake and we're doing this at 13 12 it's it's kid hackers right now too you're fishing people for credit card numbers at 13 I didn't I didn't know how bad it was but that's what the my older friends taught me they're like here this is what you do

5:56 you download this AOL CD you make a screen name and then you come chat with us that's what we would do we would have uh whoever's parents were the chillest and they they would have AOL that person would make accounts for all of us so we could just use it wow that's sick yeah and it they'd be paying one bill we had one family computer in the middle of that whole house so there's no Jack in huh it was rough yeah you can't jack it you got to remember your ████ you got to take it all the way upstairs I was born in 95 oh you so young you so young man your ear I was jacking off when you were born yeah dude I was jacking the day you were born brother no I don't think so I don't think I was I was jacking into your crib I don't think I had a computer yet I was teabagging your face brother Jack your ultrasound I was a 10-year-old teabag in a

6:46 ████ 10year old do you guys remember when you had a computer I did cuz I don't think I had it at in '95 it was too expensive oh I think we had a family one how much was computers back in the day they were $600 10 grand yeah it was $600 when $600 back then was like three grand and your monitor took up most of the room yeah the monitor took up the whole desk you remember like you would get the um like the junk mail right and like you not in the computer but like you would actually get like advertisements of Best Buy Circuit City and then yeah there'll be like 500 megabytes and you're like what the ████ this one's 500 megabytes that's crazy what do you remember what version of Windows you were using the first time you had5 damn you were on 95 already 95 I

7:37 was on 3.1 I remember that I remember like 3 3.1 I remember those never mind was my and before that even we were using Doss even before I got to use a computer my mom hired a ████ computer teacher cuz cuz like I mean for those of you guys that know that know my mom right like she's very like a likes to be a productive person her parents yeah so she's like if you're going to get a computer then you better learn how to ████ use it so um I she hired a computer teacher and then like what's pre HTML like Doss or whatever yeah yeah when Apple back in the day that's what you had to do with apple you had to do all the commands yeah you have to like write all the commands so I was like learning that ████ like in fifth grade like how to like CD back slash find the folder yeah yeah yeah yeah I would have to take a bunch of those classes before my mom let me ████ explore the

8:28 computer dude my dad used to had computer in the basement that we were not allowed to touch ever and it was behind the lock door and he used to go in there and jerk off no no he he would uh he had he had this um CD burner he spent s████████ of money on it at the time and he would put ads in the paper like hey you want to I'll make you a ████ CD so he was just he was burning like like yeah he was like he was pirating ████ he was a burner outside of wow I never knew of anyone doing that out he had his he had his main job like where he was a general manager at a store and then he would come home and burn CDs all night and it would take all night to burn a CD it would take like literally like hours it would take a long time just to download the file that you're burning that's why we weren't allowed to touch the computer or even go anywhere near every CD had like 100 megabytes on it like that was like the Max Capacity back then it took me I

9:18 think uh I went I hit download before I went to church and then when I came back then finally I had true Four Seasons of Loneliness by Boys to Men you had one song yeah one song it took like hours do you guys remember Amer uh AOL 2.0 or 2.5 it was the first one or earlier ones right so um do you guys remember getting like music like you would go to a chat room like it's it's it's it's got to be like invite only and all they did in this chat room was they would be like slash command find L serve yeah right and then when you find it then you go send whatever Boys to Men and then they send it to your email just write a number and then you download it from there right yeah likee Torrance I used to be a part I I used to be a part of that a crew that did that M so on our end we would have a bot or like it look

10:09 like bot too yeah yeah but you had you couldn't do it on other like you had to do it on a AOL 2.0 cuz it was the quickest and it had um what do you call it like like it didn't have Graphics to load what up guys thank you for watching us for so long if you like what we do please support our patreon Joe tell them what we have to offer so every week you get two videos one never relased director's cut and another one too hot for YouTube patreon only every freaking week you get that and you get access to our Discord where you can come chat with us and ask us questions that become episodes here cuz we're going to answer them and we're going to take it seriously and we want to give you the responses that you want so come stay connected with us join our patreon click the description below for full details so you were able to do it on 56k and then you open up the chat room and then you would tell them what the commands

11:00 are and then people would just start asking you right and then you start sending songs whatever but you had to build a video I mean you have to build a bank of what you had and then you can send that over yeah people would have to write slash list me and then the bot sends the list to them and then they look through their email there's like 300 things that they could pick from and then they'll say slash send 352 whatever song that is your email sends it automatically without you doing anything that sounds so difficult it's it is difficult it's a lot of ████ yeah Napster changed the game cuz they when Napster came out that blew my ████ mind cuz you didn't have to have another person on the other end I was like un it was unbelievable unbelievable you can get girls gone wild all the all every one of them I remember I remember like sometimes you'll see the bar downloading you're like ████ yeah I'm going to go downstairs to get some food and then you

11:51 go you come up and I think people signed off for whatever like all the way [Music] back I was almost so that was a real guy that if he logged off you would lose your download yeah but there were there were blessed of people out there who had like cable mem by that time remember some people see what they have they had DSL or cable and you're just like ████ you must be rich they had T3 because they were using it at a university yeah also this ████ up but you could cancel on them too so you could wait till it's like 99% and you could cancel that's messed up I did that a couple only a couple times you want this Green Day album I don't think so remember do you remember the Asian chat rooms yeah on uh AOL yeah you had to go under Japan and under Japan they had like car club sgv whatever or like under Japan it'll be

12:42 like China or whatever yeah what that was really fun damn I had some good Memories Back Then because um we would also have you heard of punting yeah the the the uh the bot you had always had a punter on it yeah so you you you or you could get code and copy and paste you could knock people offline so you could freeze them you could knock people offline you can if they had their uh instant messenger on you can just send it yeah when aim came out the punters were huge yeah well on AOL chat you had the chat and the private chat you would have loved it I can't believe you weren a part of that like that was such a I didn't even know about it cuz uh you know TR instant messenger came out so your punter would basically spam them with so many messages compress PR that it would knock them off oh wow or

13:32 there's people that like ████ you know how they uh you can draw pictures with letters and ████ yeah you make macros so people will be able to send them so fast like the M it's just constantly talking to you so that window is the thing that's in front of your entire computer so you can't log onto anything you can't check your email and you're like ████ the only way I have to unplug this ████ because this person is constantly Mass sending images that was the worst isn't it kind of cool that back in the day that was like a thing to do just bam people prank call it's funny cuz that era was very short yeah was it short I feel like it wasn't it felt long cuz we that was so new but High School it didn't last it was four years that's it but I remember like going on Aim and then you can open ████ like eight Windows to talk to eight chicks at once they're like this is that's that's so

14:24 true copy and everyone would play Computer Love yeah Computer Love remember figuring out how to find chicks from my middle school cuz I went to you know we in middle school and then people get splintered often to different high schools been finding different chicks oh through friends of friends I'm like what's her aim name what's her aim name and ████ like that Friendster helped a lot with that cuz with Friendster you could see how you were connected to anybody so remember that you can just go to some random guys page and it'll show you the tree of how you get to that guy so be like oh I know this guy he knows that guy he knows that gu so you could really like whatever happened to that it didn't survive past the Myspace era what was that one Blog Page thing Tumblr Tumblr no no no no no zanga zanga zanga was probably the one I spent the most time on was pretty dope though before

15:14 that there was no I know you guys are all the same ARA dinosaurs how old are you Steve S I'm 38 oh yeah you guys are I think zanga was very Asian-American the the craziest one was uh the craziest one was find ax I remember find that one's too deep of a cut dude I ended up uh dating a girl on find a pic and it was a crazy ████ story because when we got together um her Grandpa knew who I was because my uncle rented a home to her Grandpa and I ████ met this girl and we played when their family came over to look at the house that's so weird so on finder PS we're like we ████ reconnected I guess I I didn't know but we we we knew each other as kids so find AIX was like a social network that was a

16:04 offshoot of raax which was a site that every day you could see who had the highest score of like hot oh I remember that yeah I remember that hot or not was fun it was exactly like hot or not yeah which came later what my.com was profile pictures was there profile pictures yeah that's how you like talk to people and stuff yeah one of those pictures tons of up here pictures all those things are the precursors to what we use today yeah yeah this is the evolved version of all of that there were so many social networks back then there was a ton remember icq yeah Gamers use IQ sorry dude gam I remember icq you wouldn't understand so it was pretty advanc it was like Discord yeah it was like Discord but early yeah it was like aim too different aim but you could you could run icq while you're

16:54 playing games which was like ████ mind an aim would close I forgot if we asked this before before but did you ever get caught doing ████ online by your parents jacking off yeah my dad would catch me all the time I caught my grandpa you did I did I in that locked room no no no that was my dad's um grandpa ████ forgot to lock the door one time and we were you know we always had to leave and we always had to say hi and bye to Grandpa no matter what right so we were leaving Grandma's house and go say bye to Grandpa it's ████ Christmas by the way it's like Christmas Day damn yeah and we're leaving it's not that late it's like I don't know 7 at night and I open the door and the rug is always so thick when you're opening the door so you can hear the door you can hear like the carpet yeah so he heard us coming in and immediately he's like ah ████ and then I just see on the screen

17:46 this chick is bent over like all the ████ way bent over her ass is like out completely like you can see her vagina and ████ and he is just trying to figure out how to close the window but he can't and so all of us his pants in around his ankles his pants weren't around his ankles or anything like that I didn't look but he all of us every my sister and all three of my brother all two of my brothers and me we had to go up and bu Grandpa all with the ████ on the screen dude and him just be like oh Jesus it was the best dud he had no he was like it clearly froze up and he had no idea how to close it down dude that's like a movie it was you never told your dad uh I think I I told the story later on yeah like just him going ah ████ yeah yeah he he was just

18:37 caught and like it was over yeah you guys dying oh it was it was no it was we laughed later we like were quiet as a moue in the car and then when we got home we were laughing around ass so you guys knew even at the age what he was up to ████ yeah dude I was I was like 14 years old of course you know knew yeah dude it was crazy it was it's Christmas but that means Grandpa all day he's like he's like oh yeah right WRA this ████ up s o CL it's time to jerk it after that he's probably like I don't want to do this rule where the kids say bye to me all the time he's like ████ that you guys could just leave go find him like where's where's pop pop right oh he's in the computer room I need to get taller carpet later even taller carpet you said that your dad caught you all the time he caught me a couple times so like my dad would take

19:27 legendary naps right where I would be like oh this ████ sleeping he won't wake up be cool so like my at the time I didn't really know much about how to do all the fancy stuff of Internet so there was this website called newgrounds.com oh new grounds I know so you're ████ to cartoon cartoon form yeah the only thing I could find so it was like it was just there would be like games I play games on there and then there would be ones where it was like you would so naughty games yeah like you'd have to undress these chicks so they could so you could see boobs hell yeah so you'd have to do it and then it's all Flash animation yeah it's all ████ new GRS and then one time my dad walked in and I was like kind of similar thing oh ████ just panicking and I'm just like turning and you know he could tell about he didn't see nothing but he

20:18 could tell by my body language he knew what the ████ I was doing and he just all he said was he seemed flustered like he didn't know how to say yeah I was wear Conor for protection I want to be I want to be safe and he's like he's like you can't go on sites you're not supposed to go on okay and then just like left that was his attempt at being a he's like just you can't be going on the sights and then just like left cuz he was uncomfortable and then he caught his son about to ████ jacket you know Legend I mean majority of new grounds isn't like that so yeah good you guys remember scramby porn scr scramby porn art files when it like blur no no no no if you had you know a certain television provider you knew which one was the Playboy and if you turn the playy channel you don't get the Playboy Channel if you didn't order it right but if you left it there it would like you could see a nipple sometimes cuz it was

21:09 all scrambled oh yeah yeah yeah yeah the soft for you left it there sometimes you caught lightning in a bottle yeah and like only like the top two corners of the screen would be diffused and you see basically everything and you're like M hell yeah one day I was doing that right and I was in the kitchen and my parents were in the living room and I was in the kitchen on the kitchen TV it was probably like 10:00 at night when scram be porn comes on and I remember flipping it to channel 99 and then I remember um hearing my dad coming and I had the volume like basically all the way down and I I used previous channel to flip it back right previous channel and then and then I jumped one channel back my dad comes in the room no no that

22:01 that was good watch cuz my dad comes in the room he's like what are you doing and I'm like oh I'm just you know watching Jay Leno right and he's like he's like why is the volume so ████ low he's wait give me that and he takes it he hits previous channel and it goes to David Letterman wow he knew the move oh you had it covered one more step in Cas always have a back you know what I did so my dad had blackbox so you have all the porn channels the spice and but downstairs where you saw caught my dad eating the girl out lucky it was it was uh downstairs you guys never heard that story so it was uh it was down it's downstairs it's on the Family TV so I'd go and I didn't know that he had cuz this when I first got reacquainted with him first just moved in with him after like not living with them for like 10 years my parents got divorced so I was watching I was like going down the TV

22:51 and I'm watching it with him next to me he's reading the Chinese newspaper and then I would see like Playboy or like ████ Penthouse or whatever I'm like what the ████ this is some like the real ████ and then so I would pretend like I'm just like going through the different movie channels and I'm like oh cool I see one movie like and I'm just talking to myself out loud like a ████ cartoon like sitcom character oh do I want to want to watch this one or and I back I watch you see ████ titties again or watch cartoon Fast and Furious or cartoon let's go back let's see let's see and that was my way of trying to like embed as much porno in my brain as I could while like doing it under the radar you're downloading download I'm trying to download yeah I was trying to download to my brain you're playing this role and my dad's just there reading the Chinese news well that's the game is I was you're just downloading so that later on you just remember that ████ it's spank banking y d That's my grandpa

23:43 remember no one's going to have an imagination anymore cuz they don't have to download Grandpa buzz buzz Grand buzzing Grandpa buzz buzz with the cigarette my grandpa with TV show no shames watching that ████ Buzz Lightyear is your grandpa dude smoking and doing that must be pretty cool though I know smoking and jacking this like uh this one smoking in inside your own place was like normal yeah yeah still is jacking in front of your Dr jacking off with a back massager with a back Mass he's like technically I'm not jacking it

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