Someone who is 40 years old now would have been 25 years old, done with college or a first stint in the military, and living on their own. Housing and education were affordable.
Yes, most of us who lived on our own 15 years ago and had DSL or cable, still live on our own now and are successful in careers. That is kind of how it goes. It is a thing adults do. Nothing special or worth ridicule for doing normal stuff. I would guess you were not old enough to remember 2004 and what the common technology was, or you are trying to get a rise out of people here.
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I think you are in the wrong guild. You sound more like a Millennial. And we wonât miss playing with people like you when Classic hits.
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you probably didnt read my previous posts. Also I did my 6 year enlistment and not everyone who does their âmilitary stintâ are successful lmao. You guys just couldnât hold back saying you lived on your own back then like itâs some kind of achievement when really the age difference was all that seperated your âsuccessâ if youâre even that.
Iâm pretty sure Iâm much older than you
Personally, I still had dial-up until late WOTLK. :S
Mostly played on my exâs PC during TBC/WOTLK and stayed at their house a lot.
Parental units eventually bought cable because they were tired of me interfering with the phone line.
Lol at you city folks with your fancy âdslâ and âcableâ. My son and I started playing WOW on satellite internet. Latency of <1000 ms was a miracle.
We do have cable now as of a couple of years ago.
Didnât you hear? Itâs fairly common. Successful people had it lol
you guys should switch to windows xp for a full realist experience
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Either you were not replying to me, or you misread my post.
Sorry to hear you had difficulty post military. Regardless, most people in 2004 could afford basic utilities, which included DSL or cable, in any area where they infrastructure existed (most of the suburban or urban US as well as most schools, universities, and colleges).
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I never said I did? Iâm living a cush life off the GI bill and on my way to making a ton of money as a dental hygienist. I was referring to the people who were in with three kids and a typical military wife. Also, like I said it doesnât matter because if you were 14 and your parents didnât want to get it youâre not getting it.
I genuinely enjoyed WindowsXP, then was forced to switch to Windows 7, then 8. I miss XP sometimes.
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wasnât it Vista first? I hated vista
well play the classic in windows 7 or windows 10 is laughable
You said you did 6 years in the military. Assuming you started at 18 that would make you somewhere near 24 now + or - a few years. You would have been 9 years old in 2004 by that estimate. I can see why you might not remember what we had for basic utilities then (assuming you lived someplace that was not rural).
You are right though, if you live at home, what the parents say is the rule. Your idea that it required some sort of special success or luxury to have a common utility is way off though. That is like saying if you could get cable TV it was a luxury (cable became common in the early 1980âs in almost every home in the US).
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XP then Vista.
And yes, Vista was horrible. I only used it for a few minutes to install Linux on a laptop with HALF A GIG OF RAM. It took 10 laggy minutes to even download Firefox! Who the fel did that to that poor laptop?!
I have Win8. Iâll probably play Classic, but Iâm not sure Iâll stick with it. itâs probably not a game for me.
It is a luxury. Itâs a luxury of having parents that gave you what you want or having parents who needed it and you benefited off of it. Also like I said in my previous posts I was fotb from the philippines so I didnât start off playing in 2004. It was like 2 years in I forgot. I just know Dire Maul was a big thing on the launcher.
We got DSL at home in ~97 (maybe earlier?), two years later in the Dorms we had a T1 (great for Napster lol). About the same time my parents switched from DSL to Cable, which was great for when I was home on break.
I feel bad for people who still had dial up in 2005-2006
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Me too. I resisted leaving XP behind until I pretty much had zero choice in the matter.
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I donât think you understand the average age of WoW players in 2004, esp ones who raided. We were not kids living at home. Sure, kids are at the whim of the parents, but many many many Classic players were college age or young adults - and yes, we are in our 30s and 40s now. The average age of a raider in my guild in 2007 was 28. Average officer age was 32. We were a server top 3 raiding guild doing end game content. This was VERY typical because kids donât have the free time or freedom to stay up late to raid.
To this day there are people who canât get cable or DSL in their area but we donât consider having better than dial up a âluxuryâ for the rest of us.
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I lived 15 miles outside of town surrounded by rice and soybean fields. Cable and DSL still arenât an option there. I didnât even know about wireless internet via cell phone companies until 2005 so up until then I was still on dialup.
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