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25 Antique Internet Questions Is All I Need To Accurately Guess Your Age

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Did you ever make a personal website on Geocities?

Have you ever been to a landing page with a hit counter?

Have you ever been to a website with an "Under Construction" banner or GIF?

Did you ever use Alta Vista?

Did you ever use Ask Jeeves?

Did you ever use a Winamp skin?

Have you ever watched a picture load line-by-line?

Have you ever signed a website's guestbook?

Have you ever received one of those internet setup CD-ROMs?

Did you ever have to get off the internet to use the phone or vice-versa?

Did you ever shop on Amazon when it only sold books?

Did you ever print directions from MapQuest?

Did you ever use Microsoft Encarta to look something up?

Have you ever been asked "asl?"

Do you remember when booting up the internet made a sound? 

Did you ever play Solitaire or Minesweeper because the internet was down?

Have you ever heard the AOL voice say to you, "You've got mail"?

Have you ever downloaded a song on Limewire?

Have you ever typed out an emoticon :-D?

Do you remember having to download Flash to enjoy a game?

Did you ever print out cheat codes for games?

Did you ever tell someone to look at a website by telling them "http://www." first?

Did you ever visit Homestar Runner?

Did you ever get help from Clippy?

Do you know what "1337" means?

Finally, did you ever pay for the internet by the minute? (Check "no" if someone else has paid for your internet by the minute.)

You were born in the good ol' days where you had all of the information at your fingertips. You've never experienced the dial-up sound. It went a little something like this: BEEEEEEEEEW EEEEEOEOOEEEEOEEE KSSSSHHHHHHHHH

12 years old!

You've watched the internet turn from an application with a dial-up tone to an information superhighway at your fingertips. You've had an internet CD-ROM, but now, you probably don't even have a CD-ROM player. Oh how the times have changed!

{{points}} years old!

Yep, you used AskJeeves, know your fair share of emoticons, and have definitely looked things up on Microsoft Encarta.

You were young enough to get yelled at about accidentally accessing the internet on your phone when it was, like, $300 a minute.

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25 Antique Internet Questions Is All I Need To Accurately Guess Your Age

I recently stumbled across a Reddit thread from u/The_Watcher_100 asking "What is something ancient that only an Internet Veteran can remember?" I took all of the top answers and made it into a quiz I'm confident I can use to guess your age. Ready?

25 Antique Internet Questions Is All I Need To Accurately Guess Your Age

I recently stumbled across a Reddit thread from u/The_Watcher_100 asking "What is something ancient that only an Internet Veteran can remember?" I took all of the top answers and made it into a quiz I'm confident I can use to guess your age. Ready?

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