When I started Freespace 2 Sector, only 4 percent of the worlds population had the Internet

When Sectorgame came online in 2001, only 5.8 percent of the population used the Internet.

Today that number is 50%.
It's amazing to think that when I personally started using the internet back in 1996, I was among a mere 0.4 percent of the worlds population to be doing so. Geez, what on earth did I do with all that time?

No internet for me in the old days. I was in school attending classes, taking music lessons, doing tracks and running a couple of school clubs

Nerrrrrrrrrrrd.

Though, to be fair, I envy you. I was always a bit of a rebel in the early days... Spending all those hours on the computer playing games, building websites... etc.

Boys tend to be more rebellious, no? To be fair, some girls are rebellious too, just in a slightly different way. I was thought to be quite stubborn and rebellious at one point too, when I was a lot younger

I was quietly rebellious, though. Never outwardly. But school clubs, music lessons? Hmm, never did any of those... Though I do regret not doing drama lessons. I really enjoyed that subject and it's the only one I was interested in and pretty good at. I feel it's the one thing in life I never got to pursue. I would love to do it again someday..

My family didn't even have home Internet access until 2001. On the plus side, I got to skip straight past dial-up to cable.

Wow, you don't know what you were missing with that dial-up Internet

And there was things like Compuserve, where I spent most of my youth..

Oh, I liked the dial-up noises, it was so futuristic (in a very old fashion way)!

@ Hunty - Those music lessons equipped me with skills that kept me sane through my college years

Compuserve had like a file-sharing feature as I recall - possibly inside the various groups. I used to make some Descent remixes and short clips for fun, which I posted ... somewhere on there. I really can't remember much more. I was like, 12 or 13 at the time. My first foray into audio editing, I guess.

That sounds historic!

Wild Fragaria wrote: Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:53 pm Oh, I liked the dial-up noises, it was so futuristic (in a very old fashion way)!

@ Hunty - Those music lessons equipped me with skills that kept me sane through my college years

Only through your college years?

Wild Fragaria wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:28 pm That sounds historic!

That makes me feel old. Still a baby-face, perhaps, but a few more grey hairs than a year ago...

@ aldo - Yes, I had easy access to pianos during those years after I left home, but not after I left college. I am looking for a piano just now, hopefully I will find one some time in the near future.

@ Hunty - Lucky you only get gray hair! Some of my hair get multiple colors shades.

I'm not sure if that is the same problem If girls get gray hair does the entire hair strand turn gray, or just a bit at the top? How does that work?

You think you have it bad, I found my first white chest hair last week! I just ripped it out and denied it ever happened.