new account of MutilationWave@lemmy.world
For me, I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I (thought I) didn’t know a single gay person personally. So many people were in the closet back then.
I didn’t really say fag much but for us kids, gay meant lame. “That’s gay” - I would hear or say it many times a day. It didn’t even mean homosexual, although once I got older I could see how it was harmful. Once people I knew came out and I knew gay adults I made the conscious decision to stop saying it.
Right on, thanks for the story! This is later than I thought because when I think dialup internet, it was before laptops were really a thing. They existed but I don’t think I ever saw one in person, just in catalogues.
Soulseek is still going believe it or not. Fantastic service.
Might have had a tremor disorder. Might have been an alcoholic, I’ve been there before shaking so bad. My friend has essential tremor. It’s actually had a big impact on his life and the way people perceive him.
Gonna need the story on that one. It reminds me of trying to teach my grandpa to use a mouse. Not his fault, he had a fifth grade education then went into the mines. This was all magic to him. So every time he wanted the cursor to go higher on the screen he’d lift the mouse in the air. We couldn’t get past it- this motion on the horizontal plane becomes that motion on the vertical plane.
I’m sure I could teach a man like him now that I know how to teach. At the time I was an impatient young teen.
So your mom spent around $4500 in today’s dollars for a standard computer set up of the time, then spent thousands more on an encyclopedia set because she wanted the computer crippled so you couldn’t look at porn.
My god we humans are repressed.
An Encarta CD would have been a lot cheaper, just saying.
Ever seen an adult open Google Chrome, type in google, click the first link to www.google.com, then click the search bar on the page and begin to search? I have.
I’ve had similar experiences teaching zoomers basic shortcuts: ctrl-c, ctrl-v, alt-tab, ctrl-shift-esc. Makes me feel like a wizard. They might think I am a wizard.
Playing with fire is such a basic human instinct. Never gets old for me.
We have a crappy half size dishwasher. We moved here seven years ago and this is the first time in my adult life I’ve had a dishwasher. It’s amazing.