The Net Nostalgia Thread.

Haha, for a couple of years I was constantly in trouble over the phone bill...!! Oops.

I was with Claranet who had some funny shens going on which meant it was 0.6p a minute instead of 1p. Not sure how that worked... only off-peak mind.

Then a mate who was connected via NTL cable had some kind of back-up dialup connection which was free, which he let me use, that was good.

Did anyone pay the one-off £50 to join Breathe, who were supposed to then be free forever? Didn't last long.

Think there was lots of faffing about with getting free local calls, and secretly finding out the local number of the dial-up servers.

Finally ended up with Freeserve and their 2hr cutoff thingy, before going off to uni and ending up on T1 lines :D
 
I remember the connection in halls was a uni network connection that was tightly locked down, although it was good in a way because it forced everyone to play CS 1.5 across the network since we couldn't connect to external servers. File sharing was a no no as well so some of us used to "work" late in the library with a laptop sneakily patched directly into a T1 switch. Once we even left it for 6 hours running DC++ while we went off to get pizza and go to the pub. :D
 
VGA planets turn by email, still going today I think. Actually, tell a lie, I was into this before the internet took off, did it via BBs's, but it the same jist.
 
Wossi said:
I used to love Excite chat when I was at college, was a right laugh, we weren't supposed to be on there but the woman in charge of the computer room used to sneak out with us for a ciggie break so let us do what we wanted :D
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I spent many an evening on there, was great until virtual places took the software away from Excite and started charging for it. I was a UK2 regular back in about 1999, met loads of people from there too, had a couple of stalkers as well lol.
 
I remember playing Delta Force with Blackvault from on here over the modem, you literally put the other persons phone number in and it connected like a phone call, you could play co-op and all.

And playing endless shockwave games that you had to navigate to at the start of an IT class in order to play after school or they wouldn't have loaded. That was maybe 1999/2000 so it wasn't that long ago.
 
Kazaa K++ edition lite! Hacker tips with Ramsey :p

Not forgetting Cybertown!

I miss the old days when the internet was only for geeks. None of this YouTube/Facebook/Twitter crap :(
 
C&C Online / Westwood Chat

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Napster pre 2000 before they were sued for illegally file sharing :)

So many memories of me waiting 25 mins to download one song on 56k dialup

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Princey said:
BT Wireplay, playing Quake II and SiN. Good times.
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Aye, good times. Loved playing Jedi Knight on there.

Another classic:

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This was the first thing I did on the internet, aside from browsing. I met some Swedish guy who claimed to run a cybercafe and tried to arrange another virtual meetup. I thought this was cool and told my dad, who told me not to use the program anymore. :(
 
Well, damn this thread. I've just signed up to Planetarion again lol.

What I remember was joining FreeServe when they pretty much launched, hadn't had my own internet capable PC for long when FreeServe began. Also being recommended Google when it was still in Beta. And I used to sell cheats for games to people in school for £1 a sheet, got all the stuff for CheatCodeCentral which used to be awesome before it went advertising crazy.
Also remember using Napster pre-court judgement. And then Kazaa for some pr0n and games lol.
 
ahhh, i remember using a program called cidial which got around the 2 hours BT dialup disconnect time. And using getright to resume downloads, had my own phone line so I could leave the internet on 24/7! Red Alert skirmish mode over the net! ICQ Chat windows with 8 people at once. Websites that let you download any chart song! Winamp 2 with the Geiss plugin! Playing megarace and destruction derby.

3dfiles.com!!!
 
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