Back in the day, people used to go wild with these glitches. It's pretty easy to get Pokémon Red and Blue to explode in entertaining ways, and it gets unhinged really d*** quick

Just seeing a Missingno. causes the game to overwrite part of your save data, which means that viewing your Hall of Fame after doing that will cause it to glitch out in some really intense ways. When I was a kid with a Game Boy Color, I used to try to listen to some of the glitched noises it'd make in the dark in the bathroom of my grandma's house. I would nope out pretty quick because of how unsettling it could get

Oh yeah, I remember the AIM days! We had AOL dial-up for about 12 years - my family was just a little late to get aboard the broadband train.

The exact estimate varies, but I've seen reports that over 200,000 Americans still use dial-up. That's not a huge number relative to the country's population, but it's still a decent number of folks. I'd imagine many of them are elderly people who don't use the Internet much and stick with what they're used to for getting online, but there are still places where it's hard to get high-speed Internet.