The Net Nostalgia Thread.

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I figure that I've had access to the internet for pretty much 14 years solid now, and rather a lot has changed in those years. My idea for this thread is to post memories or images that spark nostalgic feelings about the bygone days of the world wide web.

Geeky, but ultimately heart-warming :p

I'll start with one of my earlier memories of being online with a 2400 baud modem (after being on CompuServe for sometime)

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USENET, IRC and even MUD type things that I never use any more.

Chat rooms you had to refresh. Chat rooms full stop!

Black-backgrounded, neon-fonted, centre-aligned personal websites. Later, EVIL FRAMES!

MP3 websites - just pages and pages of naughty copied music links to just click and download.

Everyone who was online was either a fellow geek, OR simply looking for porn/cybersex (often they were both).
 
I do miss those days, way back before having the internet was such a standard thing.

Did anyone ever play an online game called Splatterball? :D
 
One of my earliest memories of the internet was sitting in a room with a couple of senior scientists and a lawyer discussing copyrights when one of them typed into a search engine the word "lubricants".

:p
 
No hotlinking!


First ever website i saw...and i thot it was brilliant :D could look at it for hours (i was about 11 tho)
 
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used to use altavista all the time, was a happy day when found out could just go to www.av.com and it would point to altavista, saved many a keystroke!

first ever website was hosted on geocities, those were the days...

and the revolution that was free ISPs that cost penny a minute on dial up. Freeserve, and ic24 are ones that spring to mind.

and Napster, aimster, limewire, back when it took 15minutes to dl an mp3 on dial up !
i remebr spending literally days downloading a game demo that was 100mb
 
sara said:
USENET, IRC and even MUD type things that I never use any more.

Black-backgrounded, neon-fonted, centre-aligned personal websites. Later, EVIL FRAMES!

Everyone who was online was either a fellow geek, OR simply looking for porn/cybersex (often they were both).
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This, and:


Napster before the crackdown

Pictures of naked ladies slowly loading, a line of pixels at a time (it was like a striptease for the digital era)

Having to plan what you were going to do online because of how it expensive it all was (paying by the minute)

The sound of a dial up modem



I really miss the last one

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Hehe amazing thread!

Perhaps not as old but did any of you play Planetarion? This dominated my internet life in a big way before you had to start paying for it!

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jp_bl_68 said:
Having to plan what you were going to do online because of how it expensive it all was (paying by the minute)
The sound of a dial up modem
I really miss the last one
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Haha, go to as many websites as you can and "make available offline" then read them later :D and get annoyed when you find a link that you missed and cant get the explanation of something.

Modem noise for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtqz0bdq30Q

Ziggy said:
http://rmitz.org/AYB3.swf
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Reminds me of the 'pwned' flash vid. (Guys gets owned at cs, tries to download hacks, gets tricked into downloading malware, goes on a killing spree)

I used to love it and watch it on a daily basis. Can't link to it because it's full of swearies :(.
 
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Going on yahoo auctions , finding pokemon cards and printing them off and sticking them ontop of weedles or energy cards and then sell them at my school.
 
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