bitbydeath
Gold Member
This song makes me nostalgic for how simple it all used to be, Geocities websites, ICQ chat and Yahoo games.
I made my first website using Netscape Navigator.
Share your nostalgia’s or just enjoy a great song!
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This song makes me nostalgic for how simple it all used to be, Geocities websites, ICQ chat and Yahoo games.
I made my first website using Netscape Navigator.
Share your nostalgia’s or just enjoy a great song!
ripeavocado
Banned
Social media and iPhones ruined the internet and the world
nush
Gold Member
I stole my first home internet from work. They didn't have broadband and they just gave a few people dial up AOL accounts. I didn't know shit about how the internet worked back then but I took and old modem home from the office and tried my login details at home and it worked! paid by the minute free internet!
Anyway I snuck a look at one of my managers login details and used that so my account would not be suspiciously run up high when the bill came in each month. It took them 2 years to notice that account was still billing even after the office had broadband installed. I remember that manager mentioning it to me (I wasn't suspected), I just said he probably got hacked.
I paid for my own internet after that as there was a flat rate monthly fee available by then. I still stole a faster modem from the office.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Dial-up gaming was awful.
I'll never forget the first time.
I remember trying for hours (at least it felt that way) to play C&C Red Alert with friends.
BarringGaffner
Member
I remember downloading demos overnight. Wake up in the morning to an error and that’s a very bad day.
Richard Packer
Member
I have fond memories of visiting goat.cx.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Modern day internet I got access late 90s. I was a little late as friends already were using university email addresses. I never bothered. My first email address was a hotmail one.
But going back in time. Not the same as the net, but my brother used to download bulletin board games in the mid 80s on a 300 or 400 baud modem. Small games that would fill up a floppy at 64k he'd leave it on all night.
And back then it used your phone line. You do one or the other.
Not sure what happened when a phone call came in. Either the phone call gets blocked or the it came through killing the download. Never noticed as my brother did it.
Those were the days:
Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Excite.
But going back in time. Not the same as the net, but my brother used to download bulletin board games in the mid 80s on a 300 or 400 baud modem. Small games that would fill up a floppy at 64k he'd leave it on all night.
And back then it used your phone line. You do one or the other.
Not sure what happened when a phone call came in. Either the phone call gets blocked or the it came through killing the download. Never noticed as my brother did it.
Those were the days:
Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Excite.
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bitbydeath
Gold Member
Or even just loading images would take forever like it was being created in real-time.
Edit: And there was an app which name escapes me that would let you continue your downloads even if your connection dropped, quite the game changer when that released.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
LOL. I used to use my bro's computer who was hooked up via 56k modem at the time before cable. Maybe it was slower than 56k. Not sure.
Ya, the images would so long to load sometime, I'd just stop loading so I could just read the text of the article. Good enough.
BarringGaffner
Member
Yes I remember that as well! Bonus points to whoever can remember the name…
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Googling it, two pop up. Internet Download Manager and GetRight.
haxan7
Banned
If you haven’t seen the whole set of photos from that shoot, you should check it out. Highly recommended
bitbydeath
Gold Member
GetRight is the one I was thinking of.
ripeavocado
Banned
It was a friendlier and more interesting place back then.
Now people seems to have lost their minds and everybody is obsessed with social status and look.
Content is repetitive, derivative and almost always plays it safe.
Everything is centralised on some basic websites.
there was the joy to discover an uncharted land, now it’s a dark alley at night in Chicago
Now people seems to have lost their minds and everybody is obsessed with social status and look.
Content is repetitive, derivative and almost always plays it safe.
Everything is centralised on some basic websites.
there was the joy to discover an uncharted land, now it’s a dark alley at night in Chicago
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bitbydeath
Gold Member
But we’ve got access to everything all of the time. The dark side was inevitable, although I don’t know if anyone had predicted just how dark back then.
SoggyBiscuit
Banned
This song's descent into some mad villain-esque jaunt is really something else. It's a fantastic statement on the internet as a whole and how content is making us discontent.
cherry2000
Banned
Was a thrill talking to someone from another country and sharing photos on ICQ. People didn't seem as guarded or edgy.
Using Gamespy to find matches was hit and miss!
Using Gamespy to find matches was hit and miss!
Probably, but people were already shit back in the day.
My nickname for example, I used it after I was bullied on a chat because a debate around N64 specs. Since I wanted to stay in that chat (there weren't so many) I simply changed the nick. It was 2000.
Fuck internet, except for free porno.
FunkMiller
Member
Ah. Watching a jpeg of Kelly Brook take three minutes to download onto the screen.
Good times.
Good times.
nush
Gold Member
I liked internet cafes, the ones they had in China mid 200's were VIP deluxe inter-netting. Before that I'd use Easy Internet on Tottenham Court RD in London which were clean modern and convenient but with no service beyond renting the PC by the hour, basically an office cubicle farm.
Here's another back in the day internet experience, getting your laptop to work in a hotel and all the expense and bullshit associated with it.
Hotel internet has never failed to, well, fail me, hah.
nush
Gold Member
The only time back in the day it didn't fail me was when the whole network and attached PC's were visible and browsable in this one hotel I stayed at. So much free porn and movies I could just pull off the network instead of downloading them.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I had a WCW mirc chat room.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Yeah, the rise of Warez. A mate of mine’s father went over to Hong Kong and came back with a CD full of games, like 50 or more. One Must Fall 2097, Little Big Adventure, Big Red Racing, Rise of the Triad and tons more.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
rogr rogr
Member
At least we didn't have anything better to compare it to, regarding online gaming.
Aesius
Member
It's crazy that I've been on the internet for over 25 years now. I remember getting heated over PS1 vs N64 video game debates on the AOL gaming message boards back in the mid-90s.
To me the golden age of the internet was actually 2004-2009 or so. That brief period when broadband was starting to become ubiquitous but social media hadn't taken off yet. 90s internet was fun and truly Wild West-like, but dial-up was such a pain in the ass.
To me the golden age of the internet was actually 2004-2009 or so. That brief period when broadband was starting to become ubiquitous but social media hadn't taken off yet. 90s internet was fun and truly Wild West-like, but dial-up was such a pain in the ass.
ripeavocado
Banned
Access to what? smartphones were already a thing before the iPhone and so computers, the problem was the eternal september + social media fueled derangement of society.
I can defintely live without social media
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Literally everything. The internet is way older than smartphones. Social media isn’t all the song talks about but also that anything can be uploaded by anyone, it started off more innocent and has evolved fiercely into the monster we know it as today.
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-Minsc-
Member
These two posts pretty much show the difference in my mind between the 90's and now.
When thinking of the "internet" in the 90's/early 2000's the dialup noise would come to mind. Today it's all that sutff in the song.
The "internet" was once something you had to work to connect to. Boot up a computer. Dial the ISP. Get off when your parents wanted the phone.
Today the "internet" is something that's just displayed and accessed on this device which is in a childs before they can even remember.
Memories from me:
Looking up stoneage photoshops (remember when the term photoshoping was used?) of Star Trek on You Can't Do That On Star Trek!
Reading DS9 and Voyager reviews on www.st-hypertext.com
