What was the Internet like in the 1990s?
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What was the Internet like in the 1990s?
>>712410453
slow af
NO ONE PICK UP THE PHONE. IMA CHECK MY EMAIL.
fucking rad
>>712410671
auto redial ftw
and btw, don't forget to turn off call waiting when dialing.
>>712410453
Slow as fuck. Google America Online. It was shit.
>>712410453
Mostly text, basic html only, microscopic pics.
And very costly.
>>712411003
>America Online
>AOL
>lol aol user
>>712410671
Ha, what an idiot
>not having 2 lines
>one for phone
>one for internet
"ANON!! GET OFF THE INTERNET I'M TRYING TO USE THE PHONE!!"
Sound of my childhood. I remember my internet deal charging at 2p a minute (Britfag) except after 6pm and weekends. Coming home from school and being told I had to wait to use the internet because I had been running up our phonebill, good times.
http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=8&url=boards.4chan.org/b/thread/712410453
Those free AOL discs that were handed out EVERYWHERE, damn I think everyone in my class had about a hundred, kept throwing them like frisbees at people.
Well there was chatrooms. I trolled so hard when i was.13. Theres not one guy my age that didnt act like a chick on those chat rooms.
>>712410564
/thread
>>712410564
Like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE
>>712411839
50 free hours!
OK! Lemme just dial long distance for 50 hours!
Did and I was grounded the next month when the bill came. woops.
>>712410453
I had access to a t1 or t3 connection, so 800k up and down
So, pretty good
And less censorship
One of the guys at college did his thesis on writing a web page, I shit you not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8XKhCfsTts
>>712412011
800k
I think mine was around 40k, are you some sort of wizard?
>>712410453
28k modem. yeah, it sucked.
when i finally got a 56k modem, i would download music from kazaa
basically you'd find the song you wanted, click on it...come back 2 or 3 hours later and you were lucky if it was fully downloaded
>>712410453
expensive and slow.
useless, brightly colored, with flickering gifs everywhere.
>>712410453
come sit by the campfire young faggot
let the elders share with you the story of the before time
before high-speed internet access, dedicated phone lines to internet, and before NetZero, even Juno and AOL
>>712410453
I had an Internet guide book from 1993 that had two pages on the web - it called it a promising new technology to keep your eye on. Basically the book was a directory of gopher sites and shit like that.
>>712412141
niggers, when I started, my desktop had a built in 2400 baud modem.
9600 was the newest on the market at that time.
>>712412196
>hamster dance
email was
>FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: CHECK THIS OUT!
I used my 9600 baud modem to dial into a local BBS for some Usurper or Legend of the Red Dragon.
It was a lot more exciting....maybe to me at least because I was just a kid...but you didn't have unlimited access to content so you actually appreciated it. Not as many normies. Less regulation, I remember stumbling across CP and stuff on the normal web regularly.
Also downloading music off Kazaa at 4kbps. Dial up was rough.
>>712412349
DEE DA DEE DO DO DO DOW DO
DEE DA DEE DO DO DO DOO
Parents had to be gone for at least two hours to look at porn due to load times. Load times.
>>712412132
Patched into the backbone, I was in the computing department.
I used to download CDs in one hour. Had the best PlayStation pirate archive ever
>>712410453
I tell you what my boy, you appreciate each porn image a lot more when they take a few minutes each to download from usenet and uudecode.
>>712412273
My mom caught me downloading uuencoded porn from newsgroups through gopher. I'm still kind of proud of figuring out how to do it. You kids have it so easy with your youporns and redtubes.
>tfw when the 90's in a first world country = your 00's
>>712412639
>alt.binaries.porn.erotica.teens.nonude.norules
yeah man
>>712410453
was early 2000s, but my parents made me use AOL red. It was like a kid version of the internet
>>712410453
instead of youtube we had powerpoint sent by mail
>>712412639
>>712412701
Uudecode
Kek, I'd forgotten about that
What about the Cindy Crawford clock, downloading that for 40 mins via Kermit on a Mac?
Anyone remember this?
>>712411363
My dad still uses it. My uncle is even worse. He's had the same webtv since 98. the shit cant even load facebook
>>712412947
>>712412349
>FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: CHECK THIS OUT!
>>712412766
>sit down at a bro's logged in session for a second while he's away
>launch trn without thinking about it, cycle through his subscriptions
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.thigh-highs
dude
>>712410453
i played mmos at 56kbps
>>712412947
fucking dancing baby
fucking allie mcbeal
god damn it
>>712412881
here's a picture.
also they had it so that my history would be sent to my older brother's email
>slow
>Altavista was the shit to use, fuck yahoo
>Floopy disks
>waiting minutes too see 2 nude pics load
>>712413192
hahaha.
i used to spend hours going through those threads. Then my ISP limited the amount and newsgroups and certain ones, so being crafty, I found other newsservers I could subscribe to and got some newsgroups I never heard of before that were active. But most were illegal though.
>>712413192
Why?
Would you have preferred alt.binaries.erotica.faggots?
>>712413319
Alta vista was my go to.
Then yahoo, because
>my.yahoo.com
and could customize it with news and shit.
Then, google happened.
>>712410453
FUCKING WAITING 3 MINUTES FOR A SINGLE HENTAI IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD AT 26KBPS SO YOU COULD THROW IT ONTO AN IOMEGA ZIP DISK 100 AND HIDE THAT IN A HOLLOWED OUT SNES CASE SO YOUR DAD DOES NOT FIND IT AND BEAT YOUR ASS WITH A BELT BECAUSE THAT SHIT WAS OK IN THE 90's.
FUCKING 90's ROCKED CUNTS!
>>712413424
I have another story for that one
>Other bro says he wants to show me some thread
>Calls me over to his desk
>launches trn again
>cycling through subs
>porn
>porn
>alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male
>porn
>Wait what
That was awkward.
>>712413424
In the days before 4chan pedos seemed much less common.
>>712412273
Whatever happened to gopher? I haven't heard that mentioned in so long, I had forgotten about it.
>News groups that weren't just spam and porn
>You had to assemble hi-res images from multiple parts (very hitt and miss)
>If you could watch vidya, you were a god
>Microsoft trying to convince everyone to do video conferencing when nobody could actually do it because no bandwidth, shitty cams, and massive prices.
like surfing the tor network without the porn
>>712413370
Ah yeah alternative news servers - had to do that for some of the pirating binary ones as well.
>>712413911
ohh i remember the parts.
I had to use some program to automatically put them together once I downloaded each one, can't remember the name of it though.
>>712410453
-Image related
>>712413647
mah_man.jpg
>>712412141
Napster/Kazaa were the fucking days.
>>712413084
liar, web tv went out in 2013
>>712414080
Netscape was the Firefox of it's day.
Then Netscape Communicator that had the browser, email, and web page editor built in.
>>712412452
Being 13 and typing in "13 YO" in Kazaa.
There was no Wikipedia so you would buy MS Encarta every few years for school projects . Shit was sad
>>712413911
Well, it lost to HTTP. I'm sure there are still a few sites out there.
>>712414227
>being 13
you mean being 23 lol
>>712413694
Yep, fixed someone's pc
>Pics of him and girlfriend
>Gay porn (big black dudes)
>Scan of passport and bank card (,front and back)
He's a lucky son of a bitch, it was me
>>712410453
imagine playing online games with 250-400 ping
aol chatrooms were fun tho
mirc and #xxxpasswords
>>712413911
University of Minnesota still has it
>>712414369
there wasn't a computer repair shop around that didn't snoop around on someone's hdd when it was in their shop.
it was always in the news that people with cp saved got busted because they saved all their shit (and viruses) then took it into the shop.
>>712414599
I'm pretty sure that's where it came from, so that figures.
>>712414559
ohh those porn site password lists :3
internet not free unless its the weekend
cant use internet while someone's on phone
took 2 hours just to load a webpage
tl;dr cancer
>>712410453
Dial up access, text only. I paid $20 for 20 hours a month for access. This was way before AOL. Days of Compuserve.
Porn was only on newsgroups, it took minutes to download one JPG.
Chat was on IRC.
It was good though. Better that fewer people could get on it. When every idiot in the world got access, then it went to shit.
Late nintento era .sega.very low res "v.r."headset. Super nes. V.r. boy. Tons of street fighter 2s. Mortal kombat.ecco the dolphin.sega 32 x sega cd.nerf bow and arrow. Super soaker.grunge and alternative.snoop.wu tang.bigge.tupac. Filas with the straps.lugz. Bks. La gear.bugle boy.andrew. desert storm.princess dee and mother Teresa dying close to tge same time. Good conan o brien.tmnt..etc
>>712412141
Bullshit. When 56k was in its prime a regular song took about 20 minutes to download at around 5 kb/s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8
>>712414630
More the fact that explorer cached EVERYTHING
Remember using cc cleaner for the first time and freeing up 2/3 red of my hdd
>>712414758
compuserve was only 2-3 years before aol
plus, i remember bulletin board services
>>712411534
Found the teenager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-YuS_LFQ5s
>>712414918
Yeah, but it was still years before it.
BBS were great, lots of fun games to play against people on there.
>>712414797
I'm chiming in with it took 2 hours to download a song from kazaa. 'Member Morpheus?
Late 90s. I remember 'cam sites" which was nothing more than people with a blog and maybe a cam frame snapshot every 1 minute or so.
Some of the fancier sites used java and would transition between one frame and the next to make it look like it moved lol.
>>712414630
that still happens all the time to this day in places like best buy and geek squad
I miss the pre-facebook days. The chatrooms, the communities, the fact that you weren't constantly expected to post what you were doing and still had some time offline when you wanted to. Maybe I'm getting old, but this constant overexposure and availability (or being expected to be available) as well as expected social media partaking is increasingly getting on my nerves.
>>712415096
I played Barren Realms on a local BBS. Only one user could connect at a time. So I set the autodialer, and it would try over and over until the other user hung up. Sometimes would take an hour.
>>712415096
Yup.
And back then, people had "handles" because you'd NEVER use your real name online.
Now look at it..
>>712415203
Oh I can imagine. People aren't generally all that smart with it come to teh computerz.
>>712415145
Never really used Morpheus. I remember audio galaxy. Loved that site, but it went offline pretty quickly. Used Napster, used Kazaa, used eDonkey / eMule and eventually used Soulseek.
>>712410453
Technically worse, but more fun. Internet is shit now that it's common and everyone uses it like a soapbox.
Everyone used to say to never give out your info, now Everytime I log into steam it's asking for my fucking phone number.
>>712415212
Yep
That's why I still haven't signed up to be Zuckerberg 's bitch or Instagram the corn pieces in my shit
>>712414797
ever heard the term "hyperbole"? kys, you faggot
>>712415212
>Myspace
I remember when facebook started, you had to have an .edu email address and be apart of a (correct me if i'm wrong) community? Or something like that.
>>712410671
So many lost StarCraft games because someone picked up :(
>>712415268
It was like that with my ISP sometimes. I think they could only handle 20 simultaneous connections at one time.
>>712415479
I forget how they restricted it at first, but yeah it was university students only at first.
R@ygold
>>712415479
Wasn't Facebook supposedly created because Zuckerberg wanted to get laid? That being said there was a time before Myspace, and as a German we had a local community called Kwick that pretty much everyone I knew and met on the weekends was registered on. You had a profile, a guestbook and you could message each other. Myspace never really caught on in Germany before it tanked.
>>712415273
>>712415363
exactly
>>712414227
I did that. If only I knew I could gotten my parents vanned.
I still remember the pics and feel like a creep now that I'm older. But at the time it was the shit, since most available porn was fake fitted 40 yr old women.
>>712415479
Tripod, Geocities
Fuck yes, that was funny
I remember seeing dynamic content (from hacker websites) and it blew my mind. I couldn't figure out how they'd coded thousands of pages!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ggyEwc9B5hc
It was cool.
I had a 1200 Baud modem and I could call a local BBS and download small black-and-white scans of old playboy magazines over my choice of kermit, xkermit, xmodem, superK, and many others.
My modem program even had a hidden menu option that made you type out the whole conversation from War Games to get to a War Dialer (program to automatically dial every phone number within a certain range and make a list of which ones were computer lines).
>>712410453
I used Yahoo, found the Games section, joined the Go Fish rooms and the lobby was a chatroom filled with people giving out a/s/l, making private rooms to cybersex, and the main chat was usually people actually literally doing *teleports behind u* role play fighting.
But it was mostly popups (I am so glad I haven't seen a popup in almost 10 years), shit quality images like animated .gifs all over webpages, angelfire and geocities everywhere, and so many chatrooms. web cams were extremely rare and that's kind of where the idea of "no girls on the internet" really took off
you could literally buy the entire internet on a CD (750mb)
so yes, you could have the entire content of the Internet, as an offline-version
users didnt really interact with other users, at all. it was a website-user interaction
>>712415700
I'm not sure, I never watched that one movie about how it started.
All i remember was a girl that I worked with had an account on "facebook" and I wanted to stalk her a little bit, and I had a hell of a time lol. Couldn't even view her page because I wasn't in that community or some shit.
>>712410453
you could type lolita into webcrawler on your netscape browser and get pictures of naked children taken in the seventies at nudist resorts, and they only took 20 seconds or so to download
GeoCities web pages. Remember when people had their own web pages? I guess it was myspace and then facebook that really killed that off.
>>712415775
wow i haven't heard geocities in forever lol.
>>712411839
i remember taking handfuls from blockbuster and just whipping them down some bluffs by lake michigan
>>712410453
I was very fortunate to join the internet craze in 1995, we where poor fagsin the early 90's and one day my dad got fired unjustifiably from his job (he use to be a ticket agent for a major airline), anyways dad decides to sue, wins his lawsuit a few months later, after lawyer fees,etc; he receives a little over $20,000, buys me and my brother our first computer, a IBM Aptiva, we get AOL which use to charge $4.99 an hour, (we racked up almost $1200 in internet usage, we never paid it and went with a local isp that charged monthly, which was rare at the time), I use to love trolling people on the Yahoo chat rooms, one of my favorite things to do was telling people that if they wanted to see my photo, that they had to press alt+ctrl+del 3 times really fast, suddenly almost the entire chat room users would log off, (for new fags, back in the day pressing alt+ctrl+del 3 times would restart your PC), they would come back a few minutes later cussii=ng me out and threatening to report me, XD good times.
>>712415899
>I watched a fictional dramatization of actual events and suspect them to be real
Dumb fuck.
>>712410453
A lot like /b/ except even more stupid.
>>712415947
my isp used to offer so many megs of "free personal website space" with restrictions you couldn't sell anything on it or they'd charge you the commercial price lol.
Mine was always under construction with the little earth digger gifs.
Had the weather on it, a yahoo search bar, and a couple links to some Jenny McCarthy pics ha.
Figured out how to put a web page counter on it, and that was neat to see what country people were from.
>>712415947
xanga and live journal were pretty huge, before the term "blog" got popular
>>712412218
let me tell you a story grandpa
internet in 3rd grade
early 80s
had to dial a long distance number with a rotary phone and place the phone on a reciever speaker of sorts
it was slow, all computer screenes back then were ibm with that horrid green and the flashing curser
fast wd to 2001 , netzero was your friend
it got you hooked and i immidietly bought high speed
then it was sites like rotten.com ogerish. and albinoblacksheep.com that brought me to this fucking cesspool
its been fun but i swear i coul do without half the things ive seen on the internet
>>712415947
MySpace killed it, Facebook buried it.
There are still small hidden communities tucked away on the net, with a dozen or so users each... talking about their niche hobbies and what not. Getting to slowly know each other on a personal level.
>>712416129
That's why I never watched it, idiot. I didn't need to, I lived through it.
>>712413084
I still have my old AOL SN. Hardly ever bother checking the email though. It's the one I use for signing up for shit, so all the spam goes to it.
I remember every single tone of the dial up noises. Nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
>>712416316
yup! Livejournal. And blogger.com
What's funny is, like you said, people used those sites and a "blog" was nothing more than an online diary. Most kept them secret like a diary, some would make them public.
Then like 5 years later, mainstream and the media was like
>OH, we have a special guest on our show today, he is a "blogger".
mfw it's just some guy. ha
>>712416204
This
Also remember some Danish guy put gifs of his girlfriend fucking herself with a cucumber
Half the internet logged on, that site close in about a week
Remember sharing porn on floppys
>>712416115
those yahoo chat rooms were hilarious. i would type in 14/f looking for sex and watch the scourges of creepy old men private messaging me. Utterly disgusting when you realize the sheer amount of people getting away with that stuff back then
>>712416464
>1998
>get first email address
>they purged old accounts about 4 years ago
pissed me off. I still used it to sign up for shit and held onto nude pictures girls had sent me over the years
>>712416375
>kek, gary.
>>712416307
>Mine was always under construction
Everyone's site was always under construction
>>712416561
>blogosphere
The beginning of the end.
>>712410453
BBS's dank times, text based online rpgs, some dark shit about tho. Plus fake gillian anderson nudes.
>>712416316
Ah yeah livejournal - I guess that's still around as well.
>>712411951
I can confirm this. AOL is what desensitized me to being called a faggot.
>>712416580
getting away with what? chatting up horny teenagers?
I was 12 when a 19 year old chick with a webcam invited me to watch. Being skeptical I asked her to write my screen name on herself and she did. I got to see my first asshole that night
>>712416580
and it's still like that in some chat rooms. I visit a chat room sometimes just for the nostalgia effect, and absolutely nothing has changed.
>>712416603
no shit right? I used some of those emails to log into other sites.
>ymail
>>712416762
No actually meeting them in public.
>>712416512
I hate you Anon,I remember that shit
I used to play Airwarrior,Mechwarrior and Never Winter Nights on the Genie network back in the early to mid 90's
>>712416651
ha, the little man digging. yup
>>712416361
>There are still small hidden communities tucked away on the net, with a dozen or so users each
That sounds comfy tbh
Like Trump supporters: Slow/Simple
>>712411677
jesus, my retinas.
also check'd
>>712416808
Chatroom s are still a thing?
Who still hosts them? Yahoo, aol?
>>712416970
they still use windows 98
>>712416758
>>712411951
IRC and general forum use meant constant "verbal abuse" which got us all used to it. We adopted it, call each other niggers and faggots constantly, and then when in 2005ish regular people who used to think the internet was just "for nerds" got on, got so offended. They never got called a faggot 6 hours a day before so they took offense.
that's why girls still can't handle the internet. they want it to change to fit how they think it should be, instead of blending in and accepting what's already established
>>712417076
naw man, like, just other sites. zozo or zoso something like that, few others.
>>712411677
What the fuck did that just download to my phone?
that comic chat will be fine today
>>712417126
i used to use myspace chatrooms and would go to the Australian rooms. Absolutely nothing like the american ones.
>nigga nigga fuck nigga nigga
Aussie rooms:
>oh hello lol. Yes hi :)
met some really really nice and hot chicks there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcBZ2_k1OI
i really miss how shitty things looked.
>>712417304
I never understood why those were supposed to be funny
Alright guys, god damn, what a nice walk down memory lane. Gotta go get some irl shit done.
>>712417304
mind blown , had forgotten completely about this, single mantear dropped
I mean it was pretty good until I would piss of my family by downloading bonzi buddy and using up all the free space
>>712417489
>tfw need to finish a presentation for tomorrow
Shit
>>712417304
wow my aging brain seriously forgot about those.
The same as americans have it now, slow and expensive
>>712413647
kek
sucks for you faggot
I was little in the 90s
i can remember downloading dragonball Z roms for the DOS version of ZSNES on 56k, and the computer couldn't run it very well so I had my parents go buy a new one so I could play.
having a decent PC got me into all kinds of new shit, I ended up buying homeworld, worms armageddon, and this military flightsim called Jane's with a flight stick.
>>712417596
why does this look so familiar???
not quite 90's but
http://joecartoon.com/games/play/71/Micro_Gerbil
>>712418307
run escape
>>712414227
yeep. i just wanted to watch vids of people my age. i had to clue there was a legal age of consent so i didnt know what i was doing was highly illegal
>>712410453
A low resolution nude pic took several minutes to display. It would load by lines of pixels.
>>712418238
do you remember dragonball z angelfire websites were you would roleplay on forums?
>>712416375
Oh shit, I've been waiting for that image to resurface for fucking years.
Thanks man.
>In the olden days... /b/ was exactly the same only with hand-crafted memes carved in sandstone and frozen Reagan tears...
>Be tiny pre-pubescent fuckstick
>lol parents not home, look at porn
>find video
>"But I poop from there!" - "Not right now you don't..."
>this weird
>find other video
>seven years later
>see clip on /b/
>"But I poop from there!"
>WHAT IS MEME, WHAT IS FEEL
>>712418524
i read it but didn't participate.
>>712413303
Holy shit I remember this skin for AOL
Mostly pop ups. Windows that came up without asking, usually more than one at once. They'd play music or talk, and if you were on a porn page it would sometimes say gay things like "i want to suck your hard cock and swallow your hot sperm". Had to browse with the sound down so mom didn't hear you and think you're gay, even though you're totally on a straight page.
there was also pop-unders which were hidden better and harder to close
>>712416603
in 95 I had my 1st email account with Excite, I still remember it [email protected], back in those days everyone was either Excite, Yahoo or HotMail users
>>712410564
>>712410453
exactly the same as using a cellphone with Sprint or really any of these piss poor cellphone companies in america that throttle you
>>712415876
ayy why the Fuck would you want to play Go Fish games? Click this and that and this oh finally I found what is actually important
Also why the Fuck did they add chat rooms to it, for advice on puzzles?
>>712418775
shit, its [email protected]
>>712411839
Kek hell yeah. Good times
>1996
>friend had this internet thing
>told me about how there's a sequel to dragon ball z called dragon ball gt
>told me about fusions and super saiyans beyond the first level (we were still on Namek at the time)
>goku turns into a kid again holy shit
He ended up printing off some nude bulma pictures for me. It was nice. There is one I'm still looking for that I can't find, it's a topless bulma and vegeta, and vegeta is looking at you all pissed like you're eyeing his woman.
>>712418616
I participated, this particular one you had to email the webmaster and tell him what character you wanted to be. The webmaster even tallied your xp and gave you new moves. Of course the webmaster was super saiyan vegeta x4 with billions of hp, all the best moves, and was unbeatable.
>>712417596
This shit arrived late, I remember when there was talk of making a telephone book for websites.
Imagine how big that book would be now
>>712418524
motherfuckin db-unlimited, nigga, that was the bombshit
>>712413424
alt.binaries.pictures.ls-girls
>>712418905
Chat room lobbies were intended to be to meet up for games I guess. I'd also play Pool and cheat by using an envelope on the monitor to aim my shot
same thing with battle.net, I suppose they didn't NEED a chat room, you could have just gone and joined the games list
>>712419157
Hmph, who would have thought back in the Anglefire days I would look like this Kakarot
>>712412517
>think about your dad
>what's your dad like?
>I want to meet that dad.
Doo da doo doo.
>>712418775
netcom.com or aol.com was common also
>funnyjunk
>how to speak ebonics
>end of ze world
>gonads in the ligthning, in the lightning, in the rain, wheee
>>712414089
Don't forget limewire and BearShare :^)
>>712419157
nostalgia tripping hard right now.
>>712413911
It's still around, and has a cult following somehow.
>>712414872
When was that?
>>712415145
Holy shit morpheus Kek
>>712417292
it's just a midi file of "candle in the wind"
>getting so fed up with porn not loading that you had minor dreams of getting good at drawing just so you could sketch some tits to fap on then crumple up the evidence and throw it out
>listening to .midis because they were smaller files
Le trolli mini golf =^)
>>712419791
I got in so much trouble from my parents with morpheus and kazaa tons of things I shouldn't have seen and tons of viruses. I was one reckless hormone filled teen.
>>712416316
Xanga was the shit. I remember reading through all the grills pages and everytime you got mentioned it would make your dick a little hard
>>712419088
fuck I remeber that, I read about it in a article of Yahoo magazine, I use to love that magazine, one of the very few nice things to come out of Yahoo
>>712419942
I actually drew pretty good and did this very thing. I wish i never stopped drawing I would have been drawing all kinds of epic lewdness today.
>>712410564
I came in to say exactly this. Tho cp was on the clear net, not many people used the net so it wasn't that big of a deal but still hunted when LEA found out.
>>712410453
Web rings were pretty crazy. It feels like crazy was more concentrated in those early days. I remember I stumbled upon one that housed a forum that catered to people who thought digimon were real and that the digital world was something they can access.
There was even a dude who was trying to "map the internet".
Web 2.0 stuff has sort of diluted that crazy and it's more spread out it feels like. It's all still there but it's like food coloring mixed in with frosting rather than the singular drop.
>>712416464
pretty much same here. regged a separate domain for my emails a few years back, aol one is basically my trash can
>>712413084
This is impressive
>>712420371
For fucks sake
>>712420371
Kek
>>712412881
I was the one who taught my mom about AOL and how to use it. I was desperate though. She started asking too many questions about what the fuck (she said 'hell' though I think) she was paying for every month. I stalled as long as I could, and eventually had to convince her that it was worth the cost. Took maybe 10 minutes iirc. It was worth it though, because shortly thereafter broadband started becoming more readily available, and it was much easier to sell her on it since she too benefited from it.
>>712420371
I remember the church I was forced to go to was freaking out about y2k everyone was like repent now the lord is coming.
I remember downloading music and programs from warez channels on IRC. There was no seeding or anything, what would normally happen is you were downloading directly from somebodies home computer they often times had the CD with the data you wanted in their drive and you were reading from that.
>>712420826
Kek I remember having to convince my parents that it was worth it as well. That shit was so expensive man. It still is really, but it's just something we're all accustomed to paying now, like rent or water, that we don't even think about it. But it is ridiculously expensive. I wonder how much better my life would be without Internet.
>>712418775
Still use my hotmail address for spam shit. I signed up so long ago, my password is only 4 characters.
>>712414872
It was nice so I could read stuff while using the offline-mode
>>712413199
FFXI? It was capped at 56k because of the PS2 faggots. They stopped supporting PS2 for the most part though a few years ago, so I don't know if shit is still capped. By that point I no longer gave a fuck about the game, because Square-Enix are faggots and ass-fucked it into the ground over the years.
Cable was very useful for downloading updates though. I don't see how people handled that shit at dialup speeds.
>>712421224
0123
Nobody gonna mention the naruto amvs?
>I'VE BECOME SO NUMB
>>712421278
Socom on PS2 materrace
>>712413319
I used Altavista for a while, but then I discovered Dogpile. Yahoo always sucked.
>>712421295
Goddamnit! Delete this! The last thing I want is to lose access to my geocities account!
>>712421365
Well AMVs only really took off in 2006 with the invention of youtube
you'd see a couple from limewire or something but those were DBZ with Drowning Pool
>>712410453
Weird, but in a bad way.
Everything was flashy, ugly, and tacky, and people used their websites to jack themselves off.
Imagine if deviantart was the entire internet.
That's not quite what it was like, it's the closest parallel.
I think the internet really started getting good towards the end of the 90s with something awful and the newgrounds portal.
>>712421569
Kek
This is late 90's but on the show screensavers I discovered this program that allowed me to have multiple desktops, my porn hiding abilities increased that day. Also had the hugest crush on morgan webb on that show. She looked so hot in plaid skirts and bleached hair.
>>712411363
I use aol
>>712421417
fuck do I miss Area 51 online, had the original PS2 without the modem, one day back in 2005 found a PS2 modem at a garage sale for $1, at GameStop it was $60 brand new, happy as fuck, use to stay up all night playing team battles,etc
>>712421365
Because those were like only 10 years ago faggot, now fuck off 18 year old who saw a "meme about old Internet Days" on fb
Does anyone has a picture of COMPUSERVE ?
>>712422150
Damn grandpa y u so mad?
>>712418560
Hahaha I remember that
Cowboy in a bar or some shit
>>712413647
kek You had a dad who lived with you... The only time my mom ever brought my dad in on my shit was when she found a bag of weed hidden in my collection of metal cassettes. She was merely going through them so she could give me more shit about listening to "garbage."
Hold up, youngfag here, you're telling me that there was cheese pizza on the clearnet in the 90s? How were people not getting v& left and right?
>>712412947
I member!
>>712410564
And small as fuck.
1995-2003 was was web 1.0 dark days.
1989-94 was bbs and oldfags running hobby servers
stickdeath.com
>>712422224
>>712413910
You never used AOL I see. That shit was fucking everywhere on there, and AOL didn't seem to care. They were more concerned with people saying naughty words in chat rooms.
>>712422125
Shit I forgot about that game but it was fuckin epic.
>>712410453
I remember in the AOL days you used to be able to modify outgoing packets to get top priority on the network. Back then they were so incompetent they never did checks to see if you were authorized to do that.
>>712422403
Eternal September or whatever
>>712422448
Nah I went from BBSs to university computers and usenet.
>>712422308
ohh yeah, i member!!
Member Myspace?
>>712415273
>because you'd NEVER use your real name online.
I still don't. It's mind blowing how retarded people are.
angelfire.com/rpg/gohanultimatedbzrpg/index2.html
>>712415273
My online games try to post my sign up credit card information all over my profile and in buddy lists.
I refuse to call people by their name, I only go by their IGN. If you want to be called ChetleySwanson then you fucking make that your name
Limewire used to have the most questionable pornography on earth.
I was in dial up days. Early troll in yahoo.chat always used to tell people I got raped online. I play Diablo 2 and vintage rs Classic
MMORPGs were text based and free
played so many MUDs MOOs MUSHs etc
Some are still around
>>712417719
Fucking Bonzi buddy just wouldn't go away.
>>712411951
A/S/L?
>be 12 years old
>be in yahoo chat room
>get told i used "your" instead of "you're" and it's wrong
>didn't get fanny flustered at somebody correcting me
>do it right from then on until forever
why the FUCK do you take it as a personal insult when you make a mistake and somebody helps you? like you blithering about "hurr this isn't school" will really make you look mature when you're applying for a job and have to use it but you never practiced it so you fucked up.
>>712423584
12/m/@u$
Lol teenage me was at least less awkward.
At least 4chan still feels like a older site even if most of the users here are barely legal and don't even know what a bbs or newground and newsgroups is.
The only thing I don't miss was the horrid ui and shit speeds.
I miss public chatrooms even the pedos it was all out in the open and none of this private walled garden crap.
25 and this thread makes me feel old
>>712410453
way faster, no ads and shit and lots of free RAM to download
>>712417596
Aw fuck man, I remember when RS was that young. Creating my guy during lunch, doing Tutorial Island, nostalgia man.
>>712410453
everything took FOREVER to load. BRIGHT ASS COLOR. BBS systems that people trolled on without end. Turbo Nerd overdive in full effect. also, Prodigy.
>>712416573
Used to save Twistys pics onto floppy then found out about ROMs so deleted it all for SNES/Megadrive games.. Zelda A Link to the past fits on a floppy with a few kb to spare.
>>lennyloosejocks
>>712424168
Oh god the popups and viruses where fucking malicious and funny as fuck.
The internet in 1996 when I first started was some sort of dark magic normal people didn't even touch until 2006 thanks to fucking social media.
It's funny because now the internet is regressing and massive cencorship hopefully push normies away from Twitter Facebook and whatever else they use
>>712410453
also, Jenny Jones show hooking up people who fell in love over the net. Epic shit.
>>712422300
Because even today your average police department is fucking lost when it comes to internet related shit, and back then there were damn near zero specialist departments for stuff to get passed along too. Unless you somehow managed to get firmly in the sights of someone like the FBI about the only way you got caught was as mention already ITT taking your PC to a shop with loaded HDD in, or when they looked through your stuff after you already got busted busting a nut in some kiddie.
>>712420970
The funny thing was that by the time everyone knew about it, it was essentially a non-issue. The IT world had been preparing for it for years. If you tried to explain that to people it just made them angry. They had sooper sekrit knowledge, and how dare you question it with your non-belief.
I did have an old 386 that failed to boot after Jan 1, 2000. It barely booted anyway though, so it may not have even been y2k.
bump
>>712424018
Because the human brain doesn't care about truths or correctness. It cares about being agreed with.
Outside of emails, commercial and educational website I was mostly surfing on public page of people with usually tons of small gifs and their philosophy on stuff, poems and stories. You also could easily find plans for bombs and would occasionally have popup with pedophilia stuff while searching for porn. Also search engine weren't really reliable so most website had links to others interesting website and you would surf by going from one website to the other to find your stuff.
It was really fun, the were no fagbook shit and clickbait ruining everything.
>>712411668
Lol this shit too. I live in the UK and our dialup internet got hacked by some company in Colorado so we ended up paying through the arse for internet bills. No fucking thing was ever done about it, either, the internet company had no clue what to do.
>>712426807
>It was really fun, the were no fagbook shit and clickbait ruining everything
>4th quarter 2016
>still doesn't use Firefox + certain addons
Fuck, I forget about ads and shit most of the time. I'm always seeing people bitch about them, and cannot relate at all. I just take it for granted that that shit doesn't actually exist.
>>712426781
that doesn't sound right. it sounds right to want to be right so you won't be wrong and get called on your shit
>>712414065
winzip?
>>712417596
so much exp waste in varrock back in the day, even in p2p, anyone else remember buying membership with a check?
>>712413911
oh, some sites in gopher still exist, you can use firefox plugin to access them, google it
Pokemon red cheats
Cheat planet
I still own a Zip drive
Windows 98 internet destroyer here
I started out on 3.11
Cons:
- Could take a fucking day to download a 30MB file.
- Took a minute or two just to connect, and you couldn't use the phone at the same time.
- The rampant abuse of CSS by apparently colorblind people was a seizure risk for people with epilepsy, as well as people without
- Normalfag sites with pictures of their boring families and details of their vacation, but unlike now, normies were only like 10-20% of the internets, tops, and were confined to shit like AOL.
Pros:
- People did not know how to self-censor. You know insane this board is? The whole other 80-90% of the internet was like that, and /b/ as it stands today would probably be comparable to the shallow end of the insanity spectrum
- The rampant abuse of GIFs was honestly kinda cool.
- Facebook, Google, and all similar mainstream kike bullshit did not exist at all.
- No SJWs
- It was glorious.
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEuie5lpGA
>>712428578
Hahahahahahahah
This is perfect. This is the whole 90's in a nutshell.
>>712428279
>pokemon red cheats
>cheat planet
r u me. Totally forgot about cheat planet. Also all the dumb pokegod sites
and the most wicked site you knew was rotten.com
>>712428578
That was cool
slow lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Ozaa2SrEc
>>712412141
member kazaa?
>>712429327
wrong link lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fNUgPvmwE
>>712415026
I used to have 3 lines in the house, home phone, fax line, and my personal line which was also for interwebs
>>712428279
>Doing an IT review of a tiny company five years ago
>Ask for details of their backup / DR
>"Oh, it's all manual I'm afraid"
>NT4 machine with a Zip drive is their fileserver and backup system
wtf
>>712429606
damn, you were more than well off
I still use irc chatrooms for downloading ebooks...
>>712429868
don't shit talk NT.
if I still had hardware to run it, it would still be powering some pretty high tier shit right now tbqh
>>712410453
SCSI and windows 1.0
Slow as fuk
Let's not remind each other of DSL and dialup
>>712429448
And Satan help you if you had a 12 or 24 kb connection. I remember when 56KB was considered fast.
>>712430338
It was a good OS and all, but if any hardware in that system had died it was never coming back.
>tfw I know someone who got the NT logo as a tattoo
>>712430634
used it religiously up until shortly after vista came out iirc.
like I said, if I had hardware that I could run it natively on right now, i probably would be.
I sometimes spawn a virtualbox image, but it's not the same fam
>>712430436
I remember when I first got DSL, and I was ecstatic over the speed after dealing with a 24KB connection. Getting DSL was like the happiest time of my life.
>>712430720
>>712430634
nostalgia
>https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
>>712429868
The US Military still uses the same system from the 60s to keep track of and control the US nuclear arsenal. It's not as stupid as it sounds either. The only people around in the private sector who know anything about the system are contractors with high level security clearance, and they have a nice comfortable niche market (producing replacement parts and software updates) for themselves that they aren't about to deliberately sabotage. Even if you could buy the original hardware and learn it, you still couldn't hack the military's version of it, because it has been heavily modified over the years, to the point that it's really a completely different system altogether.
>>712421799
I remember we kept a thread with direct links to music videos for ffxi on allakhazam back before youtube and google video came out. I still have all those videos saved on this computer.
>>712430931
I hate the US Military.
>>712430738
Pretty much this. I was completely satisfied with it. The reason I eventually moved on to superior cable was because my DSL provider (Bell South at the time; now would be AT&T) had very shitty customer service, and when my DSL stopped working they never managed to get it running again. They actually told us to basically just wait and hope that the problem fixed itself eventually. I think the problem was probably that their modem died, and they didn't want to replace it.
>>712430798
Dang bro thanks - this is awesome
Aol took about 15 mins to get online and then someone phones you and boomf your offline ... slow af !!
>>712421569
geocities isn't available for 3-4 years or so
>>712410453
Fukken slow.
Waiting around for an hour to hear AOL go "File's Done" just to see some cheesy tits.
>>712430931
Yeah I get that, and completely replacing it all would be a nightmare. These guys could have just bought a new server and a few removable hard drives or USB sticks.
>>712430488
2400 was my first modem. My PC didn't even come with it, so it was the first component I ever bought and installed myself. I was very happy with it for a long time too. By the time I got a 56k, the 56k didn't really seem to be much of an improvement on things at all.
