Internet nostalgia

areksnumbr1sxylady · 21 Oct 2014 at 04:49

why did ICQ die? like what was wrong with it...

OhEsEcks · 21 Oct 2014 at 04:59

areksnumbr1sxylady said:
why did ICQ die?

AOL... and what plagued a lot of messenger servcies at the time, spam, security, privacy. AOL and MSN were the dominant messengers at the time because everyone had an AOL disc mailed through their letter box and everyone had a Windows PC. Personally, I never used ICQ or AOL because I absolutely hated the company (still do). I did most of my chatting on IRC and then eventually XMPP clients when XMPP came on the scene.

Malevolence · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:32

People making their entire hard drives available.

Curio · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:41

Compuserve
Low-res porn drawing up one row at a time
Hamster Dance
Wireplay + £500 bills from BT
Modem strings

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Oct 2014 at 21:27

iviv said:

That Kids React / Teens React / Elders React is a quality channel :-)

One of my faves from there is Elders React to Dubstep.

Zethor · 21 Oct 2014 at 21:40

Pawnless Endgame said:
That Kids React / Teens React / Elders React is a quality channel One of my faves from there is Elders React to Dubstep.

TBH, the teens and their "reactions" were more annoying than the kids in the old video. "This video is so old LOLLLL!" "I already know what the Internet is LOLLL!". There are few things less annoying than smart*** (but actually clueless) teenagers.

thedoc46 · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:01

[email protected]

Remember those days?

V F · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:04

Curio said:
Compuserve
Low-res porn drawing up one row at a time
Hamster Dance
Wireplay + £500 bills from BT
Modem strings

That was a horrible, horrible fad. Everyones ringtone was nearly the same.

Heh…

The animation received attention through filesharing and word of mouth, and when Ringtone Europe and Jamster België (now both merged into Jamba!) got wind of this, realizing the monetary possibilities through capitalizing on the underground cult-status they licensed the rights to the creation, renaming it "Crazy Frog" and starting to market it in mid-2004.

Dimi · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:32

Kazaa

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:48

Kazaa, Limewire and Imesh were all HORRIBLE apps imo. The number of spyware-ridden PCs that we had to bring back to base with one of those peer-to-peer apps installed was truly shocking!

Personally, Soulseek was my favourite P2P app. Lightweight and clean, and was good for whitelabel / bootleg stuff. WinMX was a good call too as you could host a chatroom on there. A forum that I used to go on facilitated our IM chats on there back in 2001.

gothic_hobbit · 23 Oct 2014 at 22:37

Real Player and the rm file format.

peterattheboro · 23 Oct 2014 at 23:53

Used to skive off school and play Midtown Madness

Still use Winamp to this day.

Also UT Jolt servers!

Soviet · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:32

Ahh I still remember the horrific noise my USRobotics 56k modem churned out. That and finally getting 512k broadband and sitting there in awe at how fast web pages loaded.

Subliminal Aura · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:49

IRC - commandline, mIRC if I had access to windows 3.11

Having to manually uudecode usenet binaries ..... Holy cow to trying to do that with today's 20gig files LOL

Flying_Hellfish · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:58

iviv said:

I started watching the original version (non-reaction) and got entranced. The combination of the muzak, the children's deadpan delivery and the panning shots of early webpages is somehow hypnotic.

V F said:

Many thanks for this. I remember watching this as a youngster! Listening to them chatting about autoexec it all seems rather technical now , but then you remember in those days you didn't have your hand held when setting stuff up. Getting my soundcard to work via Warcraft II setup was a pure PITA. Then you got this and YES:

Pawnless Endgame · 24 Oct 2014 at 02:50

peterattheboro said:
Still use Winamp to this day.

Same

Winamp 5 using a 2.0 skin since 1999.

Flying_Hellfish · 25 Oct 2014 at 00:52

Pawnless Endgame said:
Same Winamp 5 using a 2.0 skin since 1999.

Ah, I've finally stopped using it this week. Brilliant player though. First used it to play 2pac MP3s from WinMX :cool:

And yeah, was always oldschool skin!

Rosbif · 25 Oct 2014 at 01:04

The sound of the dial up has given me serious flashbacks of the good old days

One thing sticks out in my mind is CUT .. campaign for unmetered telecommuncations lol :cool:

gambitt · 25 Oct 2014 at 01:13

Not being able to buy anything on the internet. If you wanted to build a new machine you had to buy a copy of Micromart and order from [insert list of competitors who have been around for age]. Circa 1998? I remember calling up a company to order a Socket 7 motherboard and CPU (Pentium 120?), 8mb RAM etc, 15" CRT monitor... Oh dear god we are so lucky to be living in 2014.

Flying_Hellfish · 25 Oct 2014 at 01:17

gambitt said:
Not being able to buy anything on the internet. If you wanted to build a new machine you had to buy a copy of Micromart and order from [insert list of competitors who have been around for age]. Circa 1998? I remember calling up a company to order a Socket 7 motherboard and CPU (Pentium 120?), 8mb RAM etc, 15" CRT monitor... Oh dear god we are so lucky to be living in 2014.

Actually can't believe no one has mentioned the likes of this so far! Unless I've missed it?

Anyway, I used to spend all of my time in Y11 IT class browsing OcUK shop and Planetfootball (my project was long since completed, I was that guy).

Earliest wayback machine OcUK entry:

OcUK, Mar 01, 2000