That's a pretty impressive length of time to use dial up.
In some ways, it's good. In others, it's bad - like that 9000 video, or this:
No longer will you be ignorant to stupid things people find funny. I myself laugh at some of these things, now.
I think I've been using fast internets for... about 4 years or so. It's pretty amazing, still.
Youtube videos are fine - but really, you can sort of find a lot those that interest you on your own.
But I'd like to say that you should join some kind of file sharing community for the things that interest you. There are many things to be downloaded and enjoyed, with the internets. But with that comes the need for increased hard drive space - which could be solved with a quality external hard drive.
To start you off in the excellent world of fast internets, here is a most excellent site:
http://www.tv-links.cc/Watch many movies, shows, cartoons, anime, for free on the internets.
Here is an awesome place to get video game/sometimes anime related music:
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.phpHere is the place where you will turn into a sheep:
http://www.4chan.org/Anonymous image boards. I would say that those, and something awful (
http://www.somethingawful.com/ ) create the majority of internet funniness.
There are LOTS of online comics which cater to your specific interests, but I guess I'll share this one:
http://xkcd.com/Wow the current one references a ton of memes - a meme is one of those things that spreads like wildfire and people suddenly find funny - like "OVER 9000!" "I herd u liek mudkipz" and "All your base are belong to us". People say these things, and think they're funny.
To understand AYBABTU better, you could check this place out:
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/If you would like to participate in more sane, less insanely fast board, I rec these:
http://www.99chan.org/http://www.420chan.org/POSSIBLY:
http://7chan.org/Basically, with these you take part in anonymous discussions about the things you like, while posting/looking at images related to them.
And as you're probably aware, there are fansites for all of your specific interests, and those sites usually have high-speed only content to enjoy.
And uh... I'll guess I'll share some videos I like (these 3 are all the same theme, but I put them in an order):
Here's an hour long video game show I watch every week, called NooBTooB:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tobin00If I may get srs for a video:
If you like Smash Brothers or Sonic/Snake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyNxEgKALw#hq (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
Urban Ninja:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9nVENReGBY#hq (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlGm-s7Lz8#hq (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
Also, with the internets, I'll recommend trying to find "direct downloads" as opposed to "torrenting", for large files ^_^ You usually find direct downloads in file sharing-type communities.
As you may or may not be able to tell, you can never be bored with the internet, and you can do anything imaginable with it.
If you already know about some of this stuff - sorry! If you hadn't, though, this would've been pretty enlightening.
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