90's internet vs modern internet

[malachi]

I also remember having a 400mhz Celeron and a 2x CD Writer. Took 45 minutes to burn a music cd, haha.

...and making sure you dont touch anything incase you get "buffer underun" error.

 

[Flubble]

Always downloading at 4.10kb/s.... that is something that I will never miss, as already mentioned - the hours I wasted while I waited for a file to download is madness.

just set that 4.10kb/s speed on netlimiter, took a whole minute to load the google main page up

i don't think you could realistically use 56K any more for the stuff we do now, you would be sat there for years waiting

 

[DAIR]

Oh yes! And getting bloody MSCDEX.exe to load in higher memory and configure all the IDE drives to master/slave etc... great fun!



Yeah - it was almost an exclusive club - I liked it when people said "what's the internet?". Now every pleb is on it.

Sure it does offer access to huge amount of info - and info that everyone is entitled to. And this is progress - progress is good. However... sometimes too much information, and information in the hands of ignoramuses should be limited

Back when it wasnt limited to regions (what part of the world you lived in)... Back when there were no tight regulations...... I'm talk about the peer to peer era.... Morphius lol!

 

[Macro]

Agreed. There was more mystery to it - not it's just common place and EVERYONE has access.

Still, I do like the internet - however the internet of dial up generation was more exciting to me. As getting a 9600 baud modem to connect was a challenge in itself, and getting online was awesome!

I still remember using telnet and BBS services, as well as pc anywhere - connecting to another PC! OMGLOL!

Then again the 'net only really started to come around when I was in my late teens so seeing it evolve has been fun - I think I just accept the way it is now. It's almost exploded beyond control... almost.

/sigh, happy days... Himem.sys and EMM386.exe for the win

 

[gigeorge]

So which do you prefer?

- The days of angelfire websites, guestbooks, HTML chatrooms, Lycos/altavista, noisey modems

or

- Troll-culture, commercial websites, awesome web software, blogs, facebook etc...


I miss the old days tbh. Despite the limitations it was just basically more fun.

I agree with you 100%, this has come up with me and my mates loads of times and most agree with it. Since then everythings become commercialised, obviously and therefore a bit clinical.

Aol chat rooms used to be great
Major nostalgia !

 

[cm1179]

old internet sucked. i want more speed!!!!

though i do kinda miss the mystery, new contacts, places etc era of when i first started using it.

 

[Jimz]

Loved the MSN chat rooms and becoming a Silver or Iron hammer I think it was which means you were the Moderator of that chat room. Those were the days..

 

[gigeorge]

The "old Internet" was much more geeky and you had to do more yourself to reap the rewards. Super fast Internet at secondary school in the late 90's was amazing.

So true, for computing in general. Computings become to available and easy for everyone... Bleh

 

[Freefaller]

Oh good ol' morephus! God I feel old now (well I'm creeping up to mid 30s... )...

 

[Freefaller]

/sigh, happy days... Himem.sys and EMM386.exe for the win

Oh yes! Remember how many different config.sys and autoexec.bat versions you needed to run different games?! OH the days of tweaking were so much easier then... Now, I wouldn't have a clue how to optimise Windows 7 or anything... I just throw more resource at it and hope it doesn't hang!

 

[DAIR]

The internet is/was great. The opportunities between the mid 90s and mid 00's were epic... Movies, Games, Music. Sure they would take me days to download them but boy was it worth it lol!

 

[Freefaller]

Now the internet is almost "too easy"!

 

[DAIR]

Now the internet is almost "too easy"!

Yeah... Dont really appreciate as much. Its more a given now.

Meh

 

[Freefaller]

Also, I feel that a lot of programmers and site designers are now getting lazy and taking advantage that most people have fast internet connections and so are being sloppy with their website design.

Heck even on a 28.8k modem netscape/hotbot/altavista and other search providers loaded within 10s.

 

[jsmoke]

Also, I feel that a lot of programmers and site designers are now getting lazy and taking advantage that most people have fast internet connections and so are being sloppy with their website design.

Heck even on a 28.8k modem netscape/hotbot/altavista and other search providers loaded within 10s.

Not really, the sites nowadays are filled with tons of Javascript ads and flash and ajax etc that's why they take so long, also image sizes may be bigger.

 

[Freefaller]

Oh of course, but I'm sure there's a lot of laziness too. because it's easier to get away with it.

 

[V F]

The old days were fun because things were so bad. The lengths you would go to for a lower ping (DiamondMax 56e modem anyone?) without giving in and buying ISDN to become an LPB...

Haha, yeah! ISDN was the bees knees.

So many gamers used to scream LBP's! Now it's just cheater.

 

[MooMoo444]

I miss CheetaChat. Hi5 if anyone here remembers it.

 

[HyperSonic]

if we're only looking at things that the internet can do; then the 90's is obviously a couple of decades behind.

if we're looking at the 'fun' factor and who i regularly meet on my web travels then i'd much rather go back

 

[HyperSonic]

Also, I feel that a lot of programmers and site designers are now getting lazy and taking advantage that most people have fast internet connections and so are being sloppy with their website design.

Heck even on a 28.8k modem netscape/hotbot/altavista and other search providers loaded within 10s.

it does amaze me how slow some sites are these days, maybe its just sheer volume of users