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Registering for Hotmail for the first time (think I still have my welcome email from it)
Napster on 56k
Discovering hot gurl pics on FHM.co.uk circa 1999
56k to 128k to 4 mb then 8mb and now over the top almost silly speeds
World of Warcraft online for endless hours
Bebo/Myspace/Facebook/Boredom with them
Finding out Spotify was a thing
The old GW website/store pages
Alien vs Predator 1 as my first multiplayer online game
Whatsapp group message spam
Being able instantly upload a pic on holiday rarther than develope it
Early pirate film sites that you could stream endless hours from
And I suppose Dakka
Happy birthday da interwebz
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By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
Ratius wrote: Registering for Hotmail for the first time (think I still have my welcome email from it)
Napster on 56k
Discovering hot gurl pics on FHM.co.uk circa 1999
56k to 128k to 4 mb then 8mb and now over the top almost silly speeds
World of Warcraft online for endless hours
Bebo/Myspace/Facebook/Boredom with them
Finding out Spotify was a thing
The old GW website/store pages
Alien vs Predator 1 as my first multiplayer online game
Whatsapp group message spam
Being able instantly upload a pic on holiday rarther than develope it
Early pirate film sites that you could stream endless hours from
And I suppose Dakka
Happy birthday da interwebz
Hmm. I don't associate any of those things with the internet of 30 years ago. Maybe the dial-up speeds.
300 baud acoustic modem. Watching the characters slowly appear on the screen. So slow.
A couple of weeks ago I showed my son some examples of ascci art. Something lost to the depths of time. Although you do get little squiggles of it in sigs sometimes.
Kilkrazy wrote: I was on Computer Information Exchange (CIX) and Compuserve in the 1980s. That was before the internet really existed.
Nitpick: The internet existed and has since the 60s, it's the World Wide Web that's only existed for 30 years
No. Before the internet, there were various computer networks, some of which were connected using various different protocols including IP, email, Usenet, WAIS and others.
Kilkrazy wrote: I was on Computer Information Exchange (CIX) and Compuserve in the 1980s. That was before the internet really existed.
Nitpick: The internet existed and has since the 60s, it's the World Wide Web that's only existed for 30 years
No. Before the internet, there were various computer networks, some of which were connected using various different protocols including IP, email, Usenet, WAIS and others.
Fair enough, Internet Protocol v0 though v3 existed from 1977 though 1979 and IPv4 was deployed in 1983 for ARPANET. Since it's called, ya know, the Internet Protocol, I'd personally consider the Internet existing from 1983 at the latest, with the World Wide Web arising in 1989. The first domain names were registered in 1985 according to a quick google.
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The younger generation will never know the pain of waiting 5 minutes to see half a nipple exposed one line at a time on dial up, then losing your connection because call waiting kicked in on the house line. Streaming video and smartphones makes things all too easy nowdays, an infinite world of smut portable and in your pocket.
I'm a relative newbie to the internet. we got broadband in 2003, but i know the pain of listening to 10 minutes of dialup dubstep to get online from hanging out at my friends house.
My earliest memory of the internet is MSN Chat. not Messenger, the online chatrooms open to everyone. got closed down not too long after due to being absolutely rife with paedophiles.
Infecting your computer with viruses after downloading songs from Kazaa or limewire.
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I remember the "flash animation revolution", when movies online were flash animations, and they looped. no play bars or pause buttons, once you committed to watching madness combat, you were watching it for the duration.
And "badger badger badger mushroom" looping until it went out of sync.
hours playing original runescape...
Perhaps not as long ago as some but it still makes me nostalgic...
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Let us all bask in the familiar early days sound of the internet
Back when you paid per minute like a telephone call; when if you called anyone up and they were online you get netsound down the phone
Back before google and youtube - when you were more likely to Ask Jeeves; when patches for games were still so big that (esp if you were in the countryside) you still got your PC Gamer magazine for the disk on the front. When the idea of Steam wasn't even a possibility.
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