Memories of the internet that seem quaint now

[RubyToogood]

irc

I thought Slack was oddly familiar, and indeed it is based (or was originally) on IRC. Suddenly now wildly popular and incredibly trendy.

 

[RubyToogood]

ICQ. Trillian. MSN Messenger (bit of a theme here...).

 

[Treacle Toes]

ICQ. .

Damn, was trying to remember that and kept thinking ICM

 

[souljacker]

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

Still lives on. I plug in to JANET regularly to authenticate EDUROAM users

 

[Vintage Paw]

AOL CDs

My mum’s still got her aol email.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Paying 2p/min for ISDN. My bills were regularly over £300 a month

 

[gosub]

Ask Jeeves
Lycos

got a hotbot email address in 96 which lycos bought, just got an email from lycos saying itsswitching to pay for mail

 

[Ted Striker]

AudioGalaxy

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Winamp

 

[Saul Goodman]

Winamp

it really whips the llama's ass

 

[Saul Goodman]

MSN Messenger.

 

[scifisam]

Having to make sure you weren't online if you were expecting a phone call

Choosing which search engine to use to look something up. I suppose theoretically people now could use Bing, but hahahaha

People saying "what's your handle?"

Typing emoticons as actual puncutation and having them appear as actual punctuation

Having to get permission to cite a website in my thesis, then having to invent a way of citing it because one didn't already exist (it's the same method used in Harvard style now, but I don't think they copied mine, it was just the logical way to cite it)

 

[Saul Goodman]

My first modem. I had to put the phone handset into a mad funky cradle

 

[fishfinger]

it really whips the llama's ass

If you go to winamp.com, click on the llamas arse.

 

[Gromit]

mIRC
Teamspeak

 

[Ted Striker]

Winamp

One of the first things (2.86 or something too!) I install on any new machine ( tho QHD resolutions are killing it, even on doublesize )

 

[Saul Goodman]

Teamspeak

I still use Teamspeak.

 

[Fez909]

CSS

Literally every website still uses this

 

[xenon]

Winamp

I still use it. It still works on Windows 10.

 

[cyril_smear]

Two girls one cup *yawn,*

 

[Saul Goodman]

Literally every website still uses this

Apart from the ones that don't

 

[xenon]

You would think at this point there would be a better multimedia player, loads of keyboard shortcuts. Groove music? Fuck right off. Windows media player? You pricks is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever tried to use, apart from iTunes.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I still use it. It still works on Windows 10.

For all their faults - and they are many - MS is really committed to backwards compatibility.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Bulletin boards

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Things that use to get passed around on corporate networks when they really shouldn't in days of yore: Elf Bowling, Dope Wars

 

[a_chap]

Ameol

No-one remembers what Ameol was? Maybe typing "Go Internet" might ring a bell....

 

[moochedit]

Napster

 

[toblerone3]

Attachments. Dotcom bubble bbc tv series from the year 2000.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

No-one remembers what Ameol was? Maybe typing "Go Internet" might ring a bell....

Tbh, that's the bare equivalent of me saying I was once a good Algol programmer. Bit niche.

 

[a_chap]

Tbh, that's the bare equivalent of me saying I was once a good Algol programmer. Bit niche.

Very niche.

But I thought that was the point of this thread.

BTW I never did Algol. They taught me Pascal at university. Bring back "::="