If you’ve got nothing nice to say, go the fuck away. I’m instantly blocking shitheads who want to poke fun at this for their own amusement. You lead sad little lives.
I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn’t fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn’t start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we’ve seen it all by this point.
We’ve seen the internet at it’s infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it’s usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash’s death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
I am quite possibly the only distribitor of a christian cartoon movie collection in HD with most debate
I am certain I will be the last person to point out that you may feel you are the last one to know what it was like before the public internet, but that your feeling is completely off base and not based on anything from reality.
Family line. I did want kids for a while, but lacking a willing partner, and seeing the state of the world, that isn’t happening.
I think my wife and I might be one of the last couples to be embarrassed enough about meeting on the Internet to lie about it. When we talk about how we met around our niblings, we always have to explain that “we met on the Internet back when that was something you lied to your friends about”
Niblings. There’s a word I’ve never heard before. I’m guessing it means niece or nephew. I like it.
i’m not sure i understand the question. if it is meant to ask what experience i’ve had that no other living person has or ever will experience again, then i’m probably not old enough in my mid 30s to lay any such claim. this doesn’t seem likely to be what you mean though, since it should be obvious to you that you aren’t the only surviving person who used the internet in the 90s.
my second interpretation of the question would be that you want to know what experience i am the most recent person to have experienced, which would work with your example, if you consider the ‘early’ internet to have ended and become the regular internet, right after you first got online. for that, a couple hours ago, i walked atop a particular out of the way concrete block wall on my way home. probably nobody has done that since then.
Its sorta a wierd way to say it. Im not the last. There is still a whole host of folks alive my age and older. I have thought of it as sorta what defines the experiences of folks who are born around my time. For me its knowing an all analog world. I mean the integrated circuit was invented before my birth but most folks were not interacting with anything digital really. What stands out is space invaders showing up at the pinball arcade. I was very young. Like my first memories. None of my older siblings had been into pinball but for some reason we stopped in. I think my brother saw one of his friends. Anwyay there was a huge crowd around this space invaders game that im pretty sure was the first time the people had seen an electronic game. Slowly from there you saw other games, the pong at home thing, digital clocks. Arcades became things with mostly digital games and pinball became a smaller and smaller part of the arcade and home systems became better. odyseey, atari, vectrex, collegovision. digital watches and calculators became a thing. Word processors showed up before computers took the typewriters place. photocopiers took over for mimeograph machines. It was only a glimpse in my youngest years but I experienced an all analogue existence for a short span of my life.
Lol, you think 1996 is early internet?
Oh lol, you tried sounding smart there.
You’ve only sourced what is essentially a step of development for the internet. Do you even read?
I just can’t imagine bragging about being unique for having been middle/upper middle class in the 90s.
As they stated it became accessible to the average person in 1996. Prior to that you would be lucky if their was a local ISP offering access to the internet. I worked at several engineering companies in 1991 onward, and even though we had high end systems and tech back then we didn’t get Internet and email until 1996. And initially it was useless because your clients didn’t all have email yet.
They’re probably confusing the World Wide Web for the Internet as whole.
The usage of those terms became blurred immediately, as far as general public awareness goes.
If you use enough brain cells to be above “lol, I like that clip clicks like lolol”, then you’re labeled a nerd.
If you’re familiar with any acronyms that have to do with tech, then you’re a super nerd.
I remember when the Gestapo was real, and when the wall came down.
I will be last person to take the last hit from my very nearly empty lemonade raspberry dispo at some point later today.
My familial line. Sorry nerds, the buck stops here. I’m not gonna force anyone else into this hellscape against their will. If I ever adopt, they can keep their familial names.
Posted the same thing and saw your answer. Great minds, eh?
Same here! Only child of my adopted parents and only kid my birth parents had together so, I’m ending a couple of lines. I’m the god parent of a few niblings but if (God forbid) they should ever become my responsibility, they’re not getting a name change.
It is depressing to think that this is what you feel makes you unique… any 45+ person is in the same boat as you my friend…
You are special though, but this is not what makes you special.
It’s even more depressing that it seems like your legacy is to just shit post and troll. That’s even more pathetic. Why don’t you go and actually try accomplishing something in life?
Day of Defeat source players:
https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All
Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.
I really liked the game something like 15 years ago. But it seems like a bad idea to get back into it now with only a few very dedicated players left.
As of now (4.45pm GMT on 25th Feb 2025) I’m the last to comment on this post of a person who (erroneously) believes they are the last of the early adopters of the internet (I’d say there are millions of us).
Go troll elsewhere.
Trolling? Nothing I wrote was untrue.
My paternal family name. No one else carries my last name and I’m almost 40, been single for a decade now so kids are out of the question.
God knows how many generations of this name existed only to die out because I’m pathetic lol
“Points at adoption/fostering (assuming you want children)”
I appreciate the suggestion, but I’m single and live in a garage “apartment.” It wouldn’t be a good life for them.
I don’t understand—you think you’re one of the last people left who started using the internet in the 90s?
I think what OP is trying to say is that people in their age range will end up being the last of those people, ie. the internet was one of their earliest memories and that happened to be right as it took off. A similar example from my age range, we will probably be the last to remember the WTC attacks as they happened. It’s one of the earliest memories I have. Not me specifically, unless I am graced with an incredibly long life, but someone around my age who is.
There’s dozens of us!
No hundreds
whole nations
