Memories of the internet that seem quaint now

[moochedit]

Y2K

ugh *shudders*

 

[fishfinger]

I thought the spammers and trolls killed it? (not been on it for years though)

There is an awful lot of shit but with the right tools it becomes much more useful.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

JANET - old school, not that I ever had any use for it

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Gopher and Finger, a.s.b, irc, NCSA Mosaic

 

[moochedit]

friendsreunited

 

[fishfinger]

FidoNet

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

irc

Still surprisingly active, although mostly for shenanigans I suspect. Same with newsgroups.

 

[Orang Utan]

Urban75

 

[Orang Utan]

(I haven't heard of most of these websites!)

 

[sealion]

Only been online for 4 years, i missed all the fun

 

[Sue]

JANET - old school, not that I ever had any use for it

We were assigned ludicrous email addresses that no-one could remember -- an alphanumeric string of about 20 (seemingly random) characters.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

THAT noise when your modem connected.

Annoying paperclips

the cat was better

 

[a_chap]

Ameol

 

[Puddy_Tat]

telly / radio presenters reading out the http colon forward-slash forward-slash bit

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

We were assigned ludicrous email addresses that no-one could remember -- an alphanumeric string of about 20 (seemingly random) characters.

It seems so absurdly long ago

 

[tim]

I remember wishing that Prestel were as good and as universally available as Minitel
Minitel - Wikipedia

Odd that the French, having got every household on line in the early 80s, let the whole thing wither.

 

[xenon]

FTPArchie
Demon.co.uk
Flash
Shockwave
Realplayer
Shoutcast

 

[moochedit]

"surfing the net"

"information superhighway"

isdn

 

[Orang Utan]

Quicktime

 

[spanglechick]

Angelfire

 

[Edie]

It seems so absurdly long ago

It’s weird to think we might be the last generation to have grown up without the internet

 

[Orang Utan]

Megaupload

 

[MrSki]

Knowhere.co.uk How I first became a lurker on U75

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s weird to think we might be the last generation to have grown up without the internet

oh, we won't be

 

[fishfinger]

Megaupload

Now called Mega

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Odd that the French, having got every household on line in the early 80s, let the whole thing wither.

I'm not amazingly surprised the French plowed their own lonely furrow with tech. Mind you, they ended up paying a shitload of the cost of CERN, and well look what sprung from that!

 

[Ted Striker]

Who needed URLs when we had AOL keyword!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Chatrooms

 

[xenon]

BBS dial up pre web stuff
Actually mail order Public Domain software, soft porn, music etc.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

It’s weird to think we might be the last generation to have grown up without the internet

Yeah. I was the first gen (where I lived) of people whose schools had a computer or two that they'd let the pupils play with, and the first where home computers were something that some families could afford. It's been a hell of a ride since then. Living through an actual Revolution.