90's internet vs modern internet

PermaBanned said:
I don't see why IRC is being used as an example of what the Internet was like 'back in the day', it's still very popular.
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It's nowhere near as popular as it used to be and only technically-minded people use it these days. You used to get a far better mix up people and channels back in the 90s. IRC is definitely the thing I miss most about the 90s internet.

Most of the rest I'm happy to leave behind:

- Slow speeds
- Expensive cost
- Stupid numerical e-mail/IM addresses
- Usenet trolls (far worse than modern-day trolls)

EDIT: I miss playing Quake World Team Fortress on Wireplay too. Great community and a great game.
 
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pretty good documentary of you want to reminisce and see behind the scenes of the old stuff. Also Rise of the Nerds is a good one about MS/Apple.



 
I do get pangs of nostalgia when thinking back to my younger days on the internet. I will say that various things seemed much more... risqué back then.

I quite like looking at old websites with naff gifs and backgrounds. Old sites have a certain quality about them which makes me think that anyone and everyone had their own site dedicated to their own random interests :)
 
FARGO said:
I do get pangs of nostalgia when thinking back to my younger days on the internet. I will say that various things seemed much more... risqué back then.

I quite like looking at old websites with naff gifs and backgrounds. Old sites have a certain quality about them which makes me think that anyone and everyone had their own site dedicated to their own random interests :)
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Or that only people who were (colour) blind bought Microsoft Frontpage ;)
 
I remember when I first got my 0.5mb connection, everything was loading super quick and I was like OMG :d :d :d. I really don't think that dial-up era was all that bad, mostly everything was optimized for dial-up speeds so you didn't really have to wait all that long for everything to load.

I think that back in the days I had better fun using the internet than nowdays.
 
I remember when eBay first opened and there were only a collection of people who used to sell their personal stuff and hardly any business sellers, I opened an account and got ridiculed by my mates for being a nerd selling on the internet lol :p
 
I first used the internet in about 2000 and just remember it being slow and a pain to use. Why would you not like today's internet more? Don't like FB? Don't use it then.
 
I really miss the old days of the internet. I felt it had more freedom and was more organic. Nowdays companies just want to brand everything and make money from it a la facebook. The other side of the coin is more sinister because companies and government want to take away all of the freedoms that made the internet great in the first place.

It's like they've given us a sandbox and are slowly taking away all of our tools, and after that taking away all of our sand and replacing it with uniformly sized bricks.

I'm actually starting to feel penned in on the internet.
 
I miss Demon ISP, Freeserve ISP, my old Hayes External Serial Modem (still selling them in the Brazilian jungle for £46:eek:, am I safe? Miss the noise and trying to cover up the racket late at night while certain people were in bed trying to sleep.
 
Some good memories of the net in the 90's but the two hour cut off and a 4.5 kb/s download speed on my 56K was a real killer.

I much prefer the net as it is today.
 
I remember those days you used to get ISP's on magazines, anybody remember Currant Bun? nobody could ever get through via telephone before I got Broadband.

I also used to have one of those horrid PCI software modems that hogged the processor, my 28.8k ISA modem was preferred. :p
 
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Just don't like all the BS nonsense everywhere you go at the moment. Sadly, being able to add your own stuff to the internet has allowed the world's nubbins a chance to make us all suffer.
 
I used to quite like how personal the web was back in the 90s. Some horrific design but it was good looking through all the other dircon users' home pages for starters. :D

Yahoo chat used to be pretty good and I still occasionally use IRC.

The modern internet is awesome for gaming though - I used to run up rather large phone bills doing direct dial multiplayer with friends. Youtube is also one of the great things about the modern form of the 'net.
 
Freefaller said:
Now the internet is almost "too easy"!
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This ^^^

I remember leaving my PC untouched for 2.5 days just so i could download a Tool Music video....which was unfortunate as 2 days in we had a power cut :(

My parents line was so bad, that when my friends had a solid50-56k I was getting anywhere between 18-33k....1.15 hrs to download a single Mp3...

Happy happy memories...:)
 
Ive noticed tha the internet as it stands just now seems "smaller" as you are stickied to a lot less websites and places.

I saw a post recently here saying what other sites do you use and most people listed maybe 5 of which it read as:

BBC
fleaBay
OCUK
Facebook
Twitter
Amazon

As much as there are millions of sites selling things we tend to stick to 2 or 3; there are a load of social networks but we stick to Facebook and Twitter.

If you see what I mean.

My first computer communication experience was 2400baud BBSs back in the early 90s then shell account internet access on cyberspace.org - I loved Fidonet back in the day and used BlueWave and OLX to keep up to date on things.

Because it was geeky and clunky you didnt have people there for no reason, everyone was there because they wanted to and werent just trolling.

Things I love about now though as instant on - broadband, iPads, FB mail etc its all good - just mainstream.
 
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