A crappy evening in 1998.. lol

You turn on your computer and connect to the internet.






Success!




Just kidding your mom just picked up the phone.



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You try again...




You're in.




The first thing you do is sign onto AIM.




Where your friend is being a dick.



Via: cubosh.net

And then you get rate limited.



Via: archive.rotteneggsx.com


Via: gizmomash.com

Oh well, I guess this means you can burn that CD you've been meaning to make.




The disc pops out.



Via: help.aol.com

SmUrf. That's not working.



Via: askubuntu.com

No more procrastination. It's homework time. You open Encarta and search for "sea cucumbers".



Via: retrojunk.com

NO RESULTS.




You can't do your homework now. Great.

DAMMIT MOM.




WHY CAN'T WE GET A SECOND LINE?








OK, so you want to look at some porn.




BUT THE INTERNET IS SO SLOW THAT THE PICTURE WON'T LOAD.




Smurf that. I guess you'll have to settle for some Oregon Trail.




Then this happens:



Via: childrenofthenineties.blogspot.com

And then Nicole gets dysentery.




And then you get dysentery.



Via: digitaltrends.com

That was fun.

So you try to download a song. You search and see there are so many results!



Via: mysite.du.edu

You find what you want. It's going to take an hour for this one song.




2.5 hours later...




It finished!



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JK IT'S A VIRUS




Then this happens:



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And this:



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You want to die.



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You want a new computer but it's $2400 for this piece of smurf.



Via: donnad




So you just sit there, stare, and hope that the computer will magically work if it "rests" for a while.



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THE END

That's awesome.

LMAO

OMG I'm old, but I remember the majority of that happening! hahaha


I loved napster  

Omg lol
I hated AOL

True story. Crazy seeing how much technology has evolved. Totally forgot about Encarta, we lived on that for school work.

Quoting PeanutButter*superkink*:" Omg lol I hated AOL"

 


I never used AOL messaging. Ever! I used Yahoo and MSN.

hahahaahahahahaaha....

omg..... too smurfing funny!

bahahahaha

Bahahaha!

Thus always happy that my dad is an IT guy and we always had the best of everything internet wise. When we needed computers, he built them.  

i actually know someone who STILL has an aol account
he must be their very last customer  

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>"   I never used AOL messaging. Ever! I used Yahoo and MSN. "</blockquote>




I used ICQ and MSN!

OMG I laughed my ass off at this!! So true, SOOOOOOO very very accurate!

Quoting regina_margot:" i actually know someone who STILL has an aol account he must be their very last customer  "

AOL still exists!?
hahaha I imagined they went out of business or merged with someone or something!

the only thing i dont remember is aol rate limit..

That was the story of my life! (minus the porn lol)