I thought you were going to say that you can confirm fucked his mother in 2000, and now he is 23 y.o.
On more serious note, I think WiFi existed back then, and radio transmitters were too used (although limited) in internet backbone. So, the description is accurate.
2000 is about the turning point when internet because mainstream; when people turned from "oh, you're on the internet?" to "oh, your not on the internet?" Internet was quite new and WiFi wasn't a thing, tho it might already existed somehow. Don't know about radio transmitters in that context in that time.
So I don't know if it existed back then but I'm sure it wasn't mainstream. But there were browser games and I think it was possible to play again each other.
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lugal@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 2y
As someone who already lived in 2000, I can confirm this. It worked a bit differently and we called it "the internet" back then
MxM111@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y
I thought you were going to say that you can confirm fucked his mother in 2000, and now he is 23 y.o.
On more serious note, I think WiFi existed back then, and radio transmitters were too used (although limited) in internet backbone. So, the description is accurate.
zorro@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Don't tell anyone, but WiFi is a radio transmission
MxM111@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
That’s I assume everyone understands here.
lugal@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
2000 is about the turning point when internet because mainstream; when people turned from "oh, you're on the internet?" to "oh, your not on the internet?" Internet was quite new and WiFi wasn't a thing, tho it might already existed somehow. Don't know about radio transmitters in that context in that time.
So I don't know if it existed back then but I'm sure it wasn't mainstream. But there were browser games and I think it was possible to play again each other.
Arfman@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Some of my friends call it the interWebzz though
nao@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
the internet, those were the days…
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
We called it heat.net
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
One of the few examples where real technology was more advanced and practical than they predicted.
ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 2y
I just lost the game
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Say "thug aim" 10 times, very quickly
spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
I want you to know that at least one person fell for this
wieson@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
You still need both halves of the chess board
yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com · 14 pts · 2y
This is a parody of those old retro futurism stuff right?
MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
No, they knew even back then.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
Shit talking the opponent is a tradition as old as competitive games themselves, it's in the genes.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I'm in your mum's genes
ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Wow, they even predicted the motherfuckers of chat!