We all know the internet is completely anonymous, unless you personally go the mile and reveal your identity.
But consider that some of these online message boards/chats actually predate the 2000s.
All those 20 and 30 year olds who were arguing over PS1 & N64 on the BBS servers are now in their 50s or 60s and assuming they're all nerds at heart, we're still arguing with them right now.
Ughh i was one of those people in my teens in the 90s. But i am not a boomer, i am 41 and gen xer metal head from the 80s 90s era. And anti-sjw, tell it like it is defender of truth.
My first pc was an apple iic and then a hand-me-down ibm 8088 xt clone with 4 color cga graphics. First console was my parents inteillivision, and my friends all had ataris as 5-8 year old. I lived through the NES launch and had a NES back in 1986. I had zelda at launch in all it's gold cart glory and recess/lunchroom/bus ride talking about. Simons quest, SMB2, minus world in smb1 etc.....
I was a teen when wolfenstien3d came out and had a 80386sx with the first pc cd-rom, dos 5.11, windows 3.0 (not 3.11 yet) and geoworks ensemble overlay with using a 2400k baud modem, where 1 nude pic for my teenage curious eyes took up to 1 hour to download. I remember upgrading that 386 and doing my first pc modification. Replacing the 512k graphics VGA chip with a whopping 1mb SuperVGA orchid card. 800x600 resolution and thousands of colors on screen at the same time, no more dithering in those nude pics.
I lived through the TurboGraphix16 launch along with SNES/Genesis war, and how TG16 had amazing games, color and sound got destroyed by bad marketing and lack of positive press (poor tg16, I loved that console). I remember the cd and 32x add-ons. The launch of the Sega Saturn which really had no games, and the glourious rise of PS1 and adult focused gaming. It was like gaming was growing with me.
As a young teen Sega dipped into my Angst and as an older teen into a twenty something PS1 was there to carry the maturity. If it wasn't for ps1 and pc gaming I may have stopped gaming then and there. Thankfully that wasn't the case.
I remember lan and 56k modems and Aol. I remember trying to play baldurs gate 1 with its 5 cd (or was it 7?) and the allure of this game that brought back a decade old year for the gold box era. I remember not being able to play it well on my packard bell Pentium ii which in my pursuit to up specs turned out to be not a pentium at all but a Cyrix mii a pentium clone like AMD. I remember getting an ati rage card and it barely making a difference and crashing on most 3d games. Then i remmber the glory of Voodoo3 and sound blaster live. I recall moving jumpers and over clocking my p2 200mhz and pushing it to 333mhz. Playing quake and UT but having problems with outside areas as the fps would tank. I remember building my first rig from scratch an intel Pentium 3 coppermine 650mhz., with dual gpu Voodoo5 5500,and finally being able to play all 3d games with glorious no resource taking togglable 4x msaa. Setting up a lan room at my frineds apartment with 10 other pcs and a server and how we used to play Quake 3 and UT all night. I remember his wife divorcing him a year later (she couldn't handle the fun) and then sitting with him at a strip club that is no longer there.
I remember Morrowind, and Neverwinter nights, the halo hype (which I never understood), Silent hill, spinter cell, Knights of the old republic, far cry, Half-life2, Vampire bloodlines, doom3, ut2004 as 2004 became an epic year for the fps. I remember the launch of the 360 and rrod, the ps3 has no games and $599 fiascos the strong bias in the games media for 360 and the comback king of ps3. I remember wii and waggle, the launch of the psp, ds lite, 3ds, vita .... and so on.
So you see i lived through this era and many others, and I am sure many more have too. There is no boomer about us. Now if you would be talking about my 65 year old mom or my recently deceased dad than you would have a point. Neither played video games past the intellivision/atari 2600.
