Internet nostalgia
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+1 for Winmx.
The old Napigator forum, an off-shoot of Napster, used to host their group chats on Winmx. We also ran a bot on there called Aphonia and we'd ask it silly questions and it responded with silly answers. It had memory as well, in that later responses days/weeks further down the line would sometimes reflect something that one of us had said earlier. It was like playing Eliza, but 100 times sillier!
The old Napigator forum, an off-shoot of Napster, used to host their group chats on Winmx. We also ran a bot on there called Aphonia and we'd ask it silly questions and it responded with silly answers. It had memory as well, in that later responses days/weeks further down the line would sometimes reflect something that one of us had said earlier. It was like playing Eliza, but 100 times sillier!
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CD after CD received through the mail for AOL & Compuserve.
My first online gaming experience playing my mate at Virtual Pool with the landline phone tucked under my chin to chat between shots.
Loved the old school internet, it's far too convenient now, the thrill of connecting successfully to a freephone ISP will never be forgotten.
My first online gaming experience playing my mate at Virtual Pool with the landline phone tucked under my chin to chat between shots.
Loved the old school internet, it's far too convenient now, the thrill of connecting successfully to a freephone ISP will never be forgotten.
The Blaster worm, bit later but old enough, or maybe it was an earlier worm, remember if you reinstalled win98 the worm would be on your pc within about 5mins of connecting to net, sometimes right away, was rush to download kerio firewall in time, disconnect then install firewall. Many times had to clean the worm and try again.
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Good post Clungemonkey, and welcome to OcUK 
Social media have, like you said, made the internet too convenient. I'm still an email / forums person, because we write posts and we get direct responses - a more personal experience imo. Status updates on what people have had for dinner / they've just watched Corrie etc I find impersonal. Stroking against the grain however, I will confess to liking Youtube. That's the only social media site I use, and it's gotten to the point that I've met people for real, so that's a fairly personal experience for me.
For internet nostalgia, 'cut off' point for me would be around 2002, but I agree Jsmoke, the Blaster virus was a right pain in the proverbial!! I ran a tech support line from 2003 to 2009, and Blaster was by far the most commonly reported virus. August 2003 = Blaster tripled our call volume
Social media have, like you said, made the internet too convenient. I'm still an email / forums person, because we write posts and we get direct responses - a more personal experience imo. Status updates on what people have had for dinner / they've just watched Corrie etc I find impersonal. Stroking against the grain however, I will confess to liking Youtube. That's the only social media site I use, and it's gotten to the point that I've met people for real, so that's a fairly personal experience for me.For internet nostalgia, 'cut off' point for me would be around 2002, but I agree Jsmoke, the Blaster virus was a right pain in the proverbial!! I ran a tech support line from 2003 to 2009, and Blaster was by far the most commonly reported virus. August 2003 = Blaster tripled our call volume
Thought that was XP?
Aye it was XP and 2000, in about 2002-4 I think.
It was quite scary at the time how fast you could get infected by something if you went online with a new/basic install of windows, as this was before XP turned on the built in firewall by default, and back when most people were connecting directly to a modem so didn't have the protection against nasties spreading over open ports that you get as standard with any router using NAT.
I remember being at a lan party where it created a degree of havoc as so many people didn't have firewalls or even in some cases AV because it affected their performance (not as much as the bugs did!), so the moment someone infected connected loads of people started to get it.
It was bad over dial up and 256-512k BB. but over 10/100 networks...