How about a nice Delta I came across from yesterday...😉😎
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I used the internet in its early days. There was a sense of wonder and exploration. People had their own personalized websites. They connected through communities not centralized platforms. You had many search engines to choose from. It was a great time.
Everyone had their own geocities page with frames and animated gifts with a visitor cou ter and a guest book you could sign, hahahah. Miss that! I had coded my own taken website in 4th grade on notepad using an HTML book I had from the library while using net zero free ad-upported internet.
Those were the days.
Tripod & AngelFire
I remember typing anglefire and it was a porn website.
Same with whitehouse.com LOL
Ya - prime domain squatter fodder. Those guys that swooped in and bought the matching TLDs for various things cleaned up hardcore
Visitor counters!!!! 😂😎😂 Those rocked, we were “on point” or whatever the term was then. Seems like 100 years ago. Flashbacks.
The days of yahoo booters and cracking yahoo illegal character names. Yahoo chat mIRC chat and downloading warez. Warez took days to download on the dial up.
Yes the old Geocities pages with midi music attached. The internet was a wonderful playground to explore
Sending a song via AIM direct connect took like 20 minutes hahaha.
Aim away messages and stylized "profile" with shitty song lyrics lmfaoooo
days to download shit was no joke, and when the crap would disconnect or the bot dropped offline, younger people these days bitch when something takes more than a few minutes to download, they would have all committed suicide back then.
I had my DragonBall Z angelfire page. Shit was too much fun. I would spend hours adding gifs 😆
I used to capture images from the dbz games on emulators and compile them to make my own gifs. Learned how from another dbz fan site. My older brother had the dbz site, I had the teken site
That's awesome. Lol I didn't have those types of skills. I just wanted my own website. It would take hours because the dial up was so damn slow. I'm pretty sure I was using my dad's ThinkPad work computer.
Did you ever join those play by email RPGs where people would pretend to be a character and tell the owner of the site what his character did for each day?
Remember the good old intro.exe files on cracks and nfo files geez there was some talented programmers and artists. It was like graffiti from the internet
Geocities! Those were the days.
I feel this needs a pepe farm remembers meme!
Came here to comment this, found you beat me to it.
Geocities.... And all that stuff.
BBSes, and living through text. Those was some times, those was.
My mind can’t even comprehend this internet world you speak of,😆 you might as well have said that you own a unicorn. 🤷🏼♀️😂 My earliest “internet” experience was w/ dial up internet in high school. I would instant message w/ my long distance boyfriend for hours and tie up the house landline in the process b/c we only had one line and no call waiting. Good times. 😂 I somehow even managed to escape internet use through the majority of my long college career. By the time I actually started utilizing the internet and getting on social media, the Wild West days of the internet were long gone.
AOL at $9.95 an hour.
Try Compuserve and Prodigy.
We used to bomb out the AOL PBX systems and offline entire regions for lulz.
I was w the kids growing up reading 2600 & making off with friends parents AT&T books. We had Red / Black / Blue books that allowed us to do pretty much all sorts of things.
Usenet back then was an amazing thing. Between Usenet and IRC I had everything I wanted.
All these years later? Still on Usenet and IRC.
Damn I would have loved to be one of your friends.
My circle of friends consist of people following what I was doing but they didn't know any better on computer terminology. They just did what I told them to do but I wasn't keen enough to go beyond going on IRC or AOL chat rooms back then.
Later on in life, I learned about 2600, Kevin Mitnick, Cap'n Crunch whistle and many more. Guess I wasn't as adventurous as you guys were back then.
Yeah, I always saw it as a nickel a minute. I quickly realized that I didn’t really use any AOL features and found a flat rate local Internet company. Got that second phone line and the rest is history.
Total illuminati logo
Got my first "computer" in 1985. A Tandy from Radio Shack.
I got an award for setting up the first computer owned by our school
Damn y’all are OLD lol
I believe the word is "experienced"
That is awesome!
My first computer was an Amiga that we bought from Elek-Tek lol
Nice!
I never got one. Just parts I scrapped together. My dad refused to buy us anything - but he would take us to get parts. By the time I was 10 me and my brother built our own VCR and PC. We used an old Commordore monitor forever
Wow! That is impressive. I was already married by the time computers came out for homes.
I remember when you arrived at someone's web page by entering the exact address.
I was very young but I still remember how you could dial in to your local bulletin board. At least that's how I remember it, there was no www. then.
Electronic bulletin board or EBB for short that was usually found in classified ads in the back of local college rags.
Thought it was BBS? Bulletin Board System?
Yeh, never heard of "EBB". Always knew them as BBS.
That's it! Been a minute and I am old. 😂