Internet nostalgia

[PapaLazaru]

Bit random but I still have this bookmarked from 2006. Comments are quality - http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/1039169.marksman_called_in_to_kill_kingstons_pigeons/

 

[Luke]

Compuserve hacks...
Log on to a support room which was zero cost, then open a 2nd instance and go wherever I wanted for free!

 

[malachi]

voodoo cards and drivers

I miss that spinning 3DFX logo when starting up Quake and Unreal

 

[del_piero]

Memories of the internets in the early 2000s...

- AOL
- Altavista
- Lycos
- MSN Messenger
- Beenz
- any number of free mp3 downloading sites


Also, the excitement of just having had Telewest broadband installed. Of course the first thing I did was download Limewire and searched for every porn related term I could think of!!

 

[gothic_hobbit]

Bonzi Buddy was annoying as hell.

 

[jonneymendoza]

friendster, yahoo.com(the old first version)

 

[Duke]

 

[Catanonia]

MS Paperclip and Altavista was THE search engine.

LPMuds, dialup and then Telewest ()

Red Alert and massive phone bills.

 

[UTmaniac]

Angelfire modular website designs!

 

[Wizzfizz]

Winamp, It really whips the llama's ass!

 

[ruffneck]

1v1 BGJ NF SABERS ONLY!

 

[teh_captain]

Limewire. Bearshare. MSN Messenger with added 'MSN Plus Pack!' to add a whole load of **** you don't need.

Joanna ******* Lumley. Spending most of the time I should have been in college at a LAN gaming centre in Gloucester playing CS 1.6.

Buffering, buffering...and some more buffering.

 

[Selekt0r]

The Johnny Castaway screensaver circa. 1993. Our whole office spent what seemed like weeks doing no work at all just to see what Johnny would do next

 

[SiD the Turtle]

Losing at Red Alert on direct dial up to a mate and pulling out the phone cable to cause an out of sync error. Good times.

 

[Haggisman]

Playing UO, fighting dragons and ogre lords and my mum picking up the phone to call someone. NOOOOOOO!!! Then hoping it was a short phone call, followed by the frantic logging back in to try and get back to my corpse before it decayed

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Those YTMND posts (with the exception of Hampsterdance) I wouldn't really class as nostalgia, as they were more like 2005-era. The cut-off point for me would be 2001 with All Your Base, Arnie soundboards, Napster going to court, some of the early Flash animations etc.

We somehow could use the phone and the internet at the same time (the internet was dial-up). I don't know how we managed that...

That was a service called Split Line. It allowed 28k for voice and the remaining 28k for data.

Was anyone still on 56k/ISDN in 2002/3/early 4? I remember hearing all the horrid stories about BT Openworld 2000/01/02 how flaky and unreliable it was.

I was dial-up from 1999 then went NTL (cable) in 2002, which is probably around average for joey public. When I worked in desktop support however, we did have some customers who were still on dial-up as late as 2004.

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

some of the early Flash animations etc.

Ah yes, such as http://www.rathergood.com/

Looking at the 'about' section of the site, it looks like he's done rather well for himself in the 15 odd years since!

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

That's the ticket, Flying Hellfish. The Adventures of Blode!!

Also worth checking out, similar era, is B3ta. Don't think I can link it as the site contains swearies, but it's worth a gander if you're non-politically correct like me

 

[OhEsEcks]

Ah yes, such as http://www.rathergood.com/

Looking at the 'about' section of the site, it looks like he's done rather well for himself in the 15 odd years since!

Albinoblacksheep was the other one for those weird flash animations. Animutations.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bagadada

 

[neil_g]

redhotant dialup to silly am so the parents didnt get pee'd off at the phones being out..

ICQ? pah, mIRC was where all the cool kids hung out..