The Net Nostalgia Thread.

[JudgeC]

Red Hot Ant

 

[antijoke]

First ever website i saw...and i thot it was brilliant could look at it for hours (i was about 11 tho)

Hahahahaha.

 

[Coldzero]

Late nineties.

 

[krooton]

AudioGalaxy on dial-up.... 45 minutes to download a 6min 128kbps mp3, LOL!

DC++ is still around oddly enough!

 

[The Dread Pirate]

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!

Good lord That was one of my first major computer related addictions!

 

[Efour]

LPBs

ROFL this!

i once got a <100ms ping on a wire playdial up at 3am, i was over the moon.

I also remember the mythical Phone bills and trying to sort them out with my old man, he was raging so much i swear he could have killed me. Screw spending 3/4 of my wages on them, i soon learned.

 

[I get around]

I remember spending an hour on the internet to see about a minute of porn

 

[Beasty]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Msn_classic_sign_in.png

No hotlinking!

Still have our windows 95 dialup PC in our garage, man that thing will be a time capsule of nostalgia.


Also those ISP CD's that came free with magazines. Sometimes they had game demos on!

 

[jamief]

I remember getting in a LOT of trouble for spending hours and hours playing Age of Empires over dialup and the resulting enormous phone bill. Amazing what you take for granted now eh?

 

[gambitt]

Nostalgic yes but slightly depressing when you think about what we had to go through just to download a few pictures. Not to mention waiting for a Pentium II 233 to catch up with you!

Playing Starcraft on a 56k NTL connection that disconnected automatically every 2 hours was frustrating!

 

[kevmeister]

This, and:

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

The sound of a dial up modem

lol, these are great.

we've still got a modem being used at work for some kind of accounting service, whenever i walk past and hear it takes me back.

 

[gurusan]

MPLAYER

 

[gjrc]

I'm going to say it. Adult material.

I used to wait until everybody left the house open up loads of windows and click onto as many photos as possible.

Then come back to the machine 10 minutes later.

Giggidy.

this tbh

 

[I get around]

Also those ISP CD's that came free with magazines. Sometimes they had game demos on!

That was pretty much the only reason I bought computer magazines, for the game demos.

 

[ruffneck]

original ICQ and MSN Gaming zone

 

[moawan]

http://www.12ozprophet.com/images/uploads/prenetmare.jpg

No hotlinking!

Netscape Navigator

MEMORIES!!!!!

 

[I get around]

Raging down the phone at some indian AOL callcenter worker "NO I HAVE TRIED ALL THOSE BASIC THINGS, IT IS NOT A PROBLEM AT MY END! YOUR SERVICE IS RUBBISH, ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

Then trying to leave aol, it's as if the callcenter worker can't comprehend why someone would leave AOL and it's crap service. I don't want an upgrade, I don't want you to send me my 8th modem, I just want to leave. "If i give you an upgrade?" NO!

MS paint on windows 3.1, good times

 

[Russinating]

Did anyone ever play an online game called Splatterball?

OMG yes! I think my name at the time was Squidger!

 

[PR.]

I remember hurriedly dialling up at peak times to sync Outlook Express newsgroups a.g.half-life!

Also remember getting a local ISP with a local number, luckily ntl offered free calls to local numbers so it was the first free ISP I ever used, problem was you got kicked off every two hours at least and it cost 3.5p every connection attempt. Still phone bill dropped from £300 a quarter to £15 plus ISP monthly charge

 

[Cuchulain]

I remember the days when my £150 9.8k baud modem was the mutts nuts, sitting in the dark, dialling into local BBS's trying to find ascii pr0n.