The Good ol' days

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We've just been having a chat in the office about the good old days of the internet.

Discussing rushing home from school to sit on MSM messenger or Habbo hotel etc. . .

Between the office we managed to prompt each other to remember the websites we used to spend endless hours on like Tucows or Ebaums world!. Which ones did you spend a silly amount of hours scrolling through?
 
Lysander said:
This one. Which was way better in the 2000s, now the forums are just a shadow of their former self.

As for other sites, 4chan [which was also a lot better in the 2000s] and MySpace. MSN Messenger was fantastic but it got assimilated into Skype, and then everyone left it for Facebook. There were a load of other sites I went to regularly but no-one here would have heard of them.

Basically the internet was better before smartphones came along.
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I agree, I always loved hearing about new websites, Looking back it was great to be apart of the internet when it was raw and new.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Such good times!

Did you fly in a squadron or just solo?

I was in [TKFM] (The Kung Fu Monks) and flew under the handle Blacknight back then. We were kind of a big deal. :p
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I think our clan tag was [Stella] I used to play with my dads much older mates.
 
Lysander said:
If you grew up in the '70s or '80s, it was a great time to be alive from the point of view of the ascendancy of digital technologies. You were able to experience home computing and the tech-crazy '80s, as well as the offline life before the 1990s came alone, as did the internet and mobile phones AND you were able to experience the internet in all its anarchy before tighter regulation came along in the 2010s. No-one born from the 1990s onwards will have been able to experience life offline or away from the clutches of the digital megacorporations.

For instance, just think of p2p clients like Kazaa, Limewire and eMule, and how the record industry was in panic for years because of Rapidshare and Mediafire downloads. They literally had no idea what to do for years about the downloading. It was a total free-for-all.
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Exactly! I was born in 1987, and I still remember my very first interaction with another person over a computer. I was playing on my dads mates pc playing 'Wargasm' and I genuinely could not believe I could type something and the person on the other end would see it in real time. Not many people will remember their first time like that, however i remember the very first thing i typed and it was 'Come get some'

I was in my early teens when Kazaa and limewire were about, I remember my dad coming home from working away and id pretty much let our PC get riddled with aids from the likes of Limewire.
 
A bit of a longshot, but did anybody ever see 'My street cam'? basically some kid had his webcam showing on his street and it would take pictures every 10-15seconds. People would go nuts about it, and discuss images they had seen and upload screenshot etc and discuss what was potentially going on. Absolutely garbage if you think about it but I remember spending days on it discussing stupid things like the same car driving up and down the street. So odd thinking back
 
Kreeeee said:
Closed Facebook groups are the worst, trapping knowledge behind mardy admins.

Facebook is also terrible as a knowledge base as nothing is organized into threads and therefore the same topics get repeated regularly.
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Yep definitely, I'm glad i came off it years ago
 
physichull said:
People also used to link their Windows Media Player to MSN Messenger so that along with your "online status" it would say what song you were listening to. Yet another tool to make you look "cool" in the online world if you listened to all the latest tunes!
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I ******* hated Papa Roach, didnt stop me from playing it to try and impress some older emo kids.. Should have just stuck to B*witched
 
Digital X said:
MSN with my gf after school, she used to send so many of the "knock on screen" things, drove me mad. Remember on MSN those stupidly long display names? I just put "Gaz" and left it lol.

First used a computer in '95 at school. Had those dust covers on 'em.

Fond memories playing Network Q RAC Rally with wheel and pedals in the 90's and my nan even had a go.
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Are you telling me that you never changed your name to exactly the same as somebody else from school? You would then get people messaging you thinking you were somebody else.
 
Freakbro said:
Yea, waiting for 6 o'clock for the phone going to 1p a minute to play Close Combat 3 in a league/ladder system and still getting £200 phone bills lol

And the voice coms was ringing your mate while holding your mobile with your shoulder :p
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6pm onwards was free with BT IIRC. I didnt mind as we had allocated times between me and my sister (4yrs younger) she had from getting home from school to 6pm. Then bang, i log onto the internet. I think i remember getting in trouble because i connected at 17:59 and I was charged for it.
 
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