Memories of the internet that seem quaint now

[ska invita]

Warez!

Definitely.
I remember for a time going to lots of Chinese sites - 0day was the best - which had direct download links for warez, but you had to do your best to navigate the site without being able to understand what anything said.

H20 Try Before Buy

Is there a good place for warez these days other than torrents?

I use Bing Maps quite often as it has ordnance survey maps

Good tip. I still fire up Streetmap which is basically an OS map online.

AltaVista

This reminds of some kind of metasearch engine that brought back results from difference engines. I seem to remember it opened 4 windows in one go so you could see the results from 4 different engines.

 

[xenon]

Definitely.
I remember for a time going to lots of Chinese sites - 0day was the best - which had direct download links for warez, but you had to do your best to navigate the site without being able to understand what anything said.

H20 Try Before Buy

Is there a good place for warez these days other than torrents?

Good tip. I still fire up Streetmap which is basically an OS map online.


This reminds of some kind of metasearch engine that brought back results from difference engines. I seem to remember it opened 4 windows in one go so you could see the results from 4 different engines.

Was it Web Crawler?

I Don't bother with Warez sites any more. Used to use phaseddl if it's still up. I think usenet is probably the place to find dodge software, if that's what you're after.

 

[ska invita]

phaseddl <that is a blast from the past...i might be making this up but i think it was when that died that i started using the chinese 0day sites....something sent me that way

webcrawler sounds like a thing

 

[salem]

This reminds of some kind of metasearch engine that brought back results from difference engines. I seem to remember it opened 4 windows in one go so you could see the results from 4 different engines.

Dogpile?

 

[belboid]

Downloading albums from OiNK

 

[Sasaferrato]

AOL CDs

AOL offered a free month, but it required card details. One of my colleagues at Sky garnered customer card details and used them serially. He cancelled the accounts before a charge would have been made.

 

[Gromit]

AOL offered a free month, but it required card details. One of my colleagues at Sky garnered customer care details and used the serially.

AOL was free forever. All you needed to do was phone them once a month asking to cancel. They passed you from person to person (and country to country too, hear the accents change each transfer) as part of the cancellation process but hang in there and eventually you got to the person who asked
have you tried all the features of the latest AOL software?
Well not ALL of em.
Have a free month to try them all before you decide to leave.
Oh okay.

I did that 6 months in a row.

 

[xenon]

OH yeah, ISPs crappy setup software and their even worse portals and browsers. BT had that rubbish if I recall when I got my V92 fax modem for a win95 laptop, in 2002. That was first time I had internet access at home.

 

[Idaho]

Homechoice ADSL - 115kps!

 

[George & Bill]

Baris Manço's Trendy Helmet Cover

 

[Orang Utan]

this is still up for some reason:
Welcome to Netscape!

 

[miss direct]

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