Lonely Lemon Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Zagadka said: I not only used GeoCities heavily, but I was very involved with a GC chat channel that had a pretty big social impact. Then they switched to Java and it fell to crap. I used to create fan pages in Netscape and upload them that way, but then geocities changed the game with their point and click website builder lol. I miss the community and camaraderie. Do you guys remember web rings and how awesome it was to get your site on one? Or even the awards fandoms used to give for the best fan pages? They'd give you a little banner or button to display on your site so everyone knew you were the tits. There was something kinda wholesome about certain aspects of the early days lol. Link to post Share on other sites
Twisted Tempest Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Just dropped in to post this. Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 22 hours ago, Lonely Lemon said: It was around that time that the old internet started to change into something that resembles today's internet. YouTube, MySpace and Facebook all popped up in the mid 00's. The development of the internet is really fascinating. It's changed so much in the last 20 years. Kids now will not remember a world before Facebook and Google. Link to post Share on other sites
Lonely Lemon Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 12 hours ago, Amcan said: The development of the internet is really fascinating. It's changed so much in the last 20 years. Kids now will not remember a world before Facebook and Google. It's kind of sad. 18 hours ago, Twisted Tempest said: Just dropped in to post this. Music to my ears! Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 17 hours ago, Amcan said: The development of the internet is really fascinating. It's changed so much in the last 20 years. Kids now will not remember a world before Facebook and Google. I'm 37 and I don't remember it either. As said before, I didn't seriously start using the Internet until 2006 The main reason why I'm subscribed to this thread is because I would like to learn more about the topic. EDIT: and here's a vdeo you may appreciate if you're searching for a fix of nostalgia: Spoiler Warning: The host has a very thick accent, so enable the captions Link to post Share on other sites
Aimeendfire Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Ahh the internet sound. I used to get those free trials from AOL that were at Walmart and just cancel them after the 3 months were up or month I can’t remember. So I never paid for my dial up internet I also spent most of my time in ICQ or AIM and then later in MSN chat rooms haha. I used to download things on Kazza or Limewire. Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 4 hours ago, Piotrek said: I'm 37 and I don't remember it either. As said before, I didn't seriously start using the Internet until 2006 The main reason why I'm subscribed to this thread is because I would like to learn more about the topic. EDIT: and here's a vdeo you may appreciate if you're searching for a fix of nostalgia: Reveal hidden contents Warning: The host has a very thick accent, so enable the captions Ah you missed the 'fun' of dialup. I love a good nostalgic video. Ah the memories. Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 36 minutes ago, Amcan said: Ah you missed the 'fun' of dialup. I love a good nostalgic video. Ah the memories. I think I've only seen dial-up at work once, when I was doing a kind of apprenticeship in 2001 or so and we had to download sth. Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 First time I used the Internet was in 2000 so I missed all that Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 I first used the internet in...1997/1998 I think. Can't pin down an exact year. I think we got internet at home around 1999/2000? We got broadband... I n't know. I feel like I was still using dialup when I first joined AVEN in 2005. Link to post Share on other sites
Homer Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 6/24/2019 at 11:56 AM, Lonely Lemon said: Recording mix tapes off the radio were hours well spent! Grrr and then a silly radio jingle would play or a damn announcer would blather over the final seconds of a song Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 On 6/27/2019 at 2:47 PM, Homer said: Grrr and then a silly radio jingle would play or a damn announcer would blather over the final seconds of a song I heard they did that on purpose for that reason, to ruin a decent recording. Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 54 minutes ago, Amcan said: I heard they did that on purpose for that reason, to ruin a decent recording. True, same as they'd never announce a song before it was played. Ah, Sunday afternoon when they announced the top 40, radio-cassette primed ready to tape the songs you wanted Link to post Share on other sites
Goonie Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 On 6/25/2019 at 8:51 AM, Twisted Tempest said: Just dropped in to post this. I play that at work occasionally just to see people's reactions On 6/26/2019 at 2:57 PM, Amcan said: I first used the internet in...1997/1998 I think. Can't pin down an exact year. I think we got internet at home around 1999/2000? We got broadband... I n't know. I feel like I was still using dialup when I first joined AVEN in 2005. oh I definitely was on dialup at the time Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 19 hours ago, Goonie said: I play that at work occasionally just to see people's reactions oh I definitely was on dialup at the time And yet we could post everywhere and not run up the bill... Link to post Share on other sites
Grumpy Alien Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 I was a kid so I didn’t chat online but I read a lot of fanfiction in the late 90s on a Warner bros run forum for Harry Potter 😂 edit: I think that came a couple years later, actually. I think I was on some seedy fanfiction sites for a kid... using my mom’s AOL account 😂 Link to post Share on other sites
R_1 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Hmm, I'll ask if anyone remember this phrase and where it come from. "I pity the fool..." It's 90s, right? Link to post Share on other sites
Zagadka Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Is that 90s or 80s? I thought it was 80s. Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Mr. T from the A-Team, of course. (aka B.A. Baracus) Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 minute ago, Zagadka said: Is that 90s or 80s? I thought it was 80s. You're right. '83-'87 according to the interwebs Link to post Share on other sites
Goonie Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Does it count as 90s if it's on reruns? Link to post Share on other sites
Twisted Tempest Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Don't know if it belongs here, but did anyone ever play Unreal Tournament 1999? To my knowledge it was the first video game that had online multiplayer capabilities (though I may be wrong.) I can just about remember it taking forever to join a game because of 90s/early 00s internet speed. Link to post Share on other sites
Zagadka Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 It wasn't the first, but it was early. I was way more into Tribes, but I used to play UT a lot. Even later in college, when i was stressed, I'd just blow away bots listening to angry music and feel better. Plus, mutators were cool. Link to post Share on other sites
Cimmerian Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I remember arguing with people over which search engines were better and why, back when there was actual competition between them (Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Yahoo, Dogpile, early Google when it appeared...) Some of them seemed to have their own niche where certain data was easier to find on different ones for a while. I didn't do much on the internet outside of game sites, email, AIM messenger, and school work that early on. (Long download times or file transfers that would claim it'd take years? XD) There was a unique magic about getting introduced to new sites by word-of-mouth though. Although search engines were already available, I was mostly introduced to new sites by my friends. And the thought of leaving Internet Explorer was unthinkable after it having been the only browser I'd ever used (until it basically made itself nonfunctional). I always forget about Geocities until someone mentions it. I had a lot more practice coding HMTL because of some of those sites than I do now. Oh that reminds me; saving research information for projects on floppy disks... and the problem of forgetting to format certain floppys before trying to save to them. Link to post Share on other sites
coyote55 Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Used email and FTP in the 1980s to communicate and send files between computers in the university I worked at, before the advent of the WWW (often referred to as the World Wide Wait in the days of slow connection speeds). The first Web browser I worked with was NCSA Mosaic in 1994. I wasn't impressed with it at first, as the static webpages of the time were little more than billboards, but the wealth of online information grew rapidly. I remember an interview on NPR in 1995 where one of the hosts estimated there were 30,000 active websites, and the number would triple by the end of the year. The heady days of the 1990s Internet business boom are hard to believe now. So much investment capital was thundering into anything connected to the Internet that entire companies were able to rent, furnish, and staff office space before they had a single product ready to sell. Link to post Share on other sites
abandoned-account Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 yoooo this is my kind of thread! So I’ll say there are some good things about the internet today, mainly the many helpful resources we get access to, and the existance of communities like AVEN where people can meet and connect with others like them (especially for those of us who never fit in with the norm). Oh, also not to mention no longer having to wait an eternity for web pages to load lol. But ooooooh man do I agree with a lot of what was said in OP. I feel like the internet has lost so much sense of niche community and creativity when the cooperate BS took over and every website adopted the ugly-ass bare bones minimum “material design” layout and they all look just the same now. Social media has taken over and we now live in a time where you’re pretty much expected to be on your phone looking at Facebook or Twitter 24/7 or you’re “out of the loop”. All the tracking and privacy concerns (yes, I’m the paranoid type). Annoying meme culture. The list can go on... Link to post Share on other sites
Ashmedai Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 While having a computer most of the time we didn't have internet until the early 2000's and it was pretty intermittent when we had it. I can't really remember too much about the internet itself though. If anything I'd be more into the retro gaming side of thigns Link to post Share on other sites
Zagadka Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I was delving YouTube and I realized that merely seeing a 4:3 aspect ratio video makes me feel nostalgic, and that makes me feel old. It is just an automatic reaction of "I that!" that makes me feel more connected to the video. I'm of the appropriate age that I remember the videos from MTV, so seeing them again is a trip. It has really made more more nostalgic of the 90s. Edit; And I'm really glad that YouTube has made music videos cool again. There was a long time between MTV abandoning videos and YouTube that is a gap in memory. Link to post Share on other sites
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