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The "Old Internet" nostalgia thread (1 Viewer)

I was in college and my girlfriend had to set up an e-mail account for one of her business classes. I was so confused and did not understand what she was doing or how she did it. I was in the college of natural sciences so we didn't need to do stupid stuff like that.

 
'Bull Dozier said:
Surfing the web in text only green screen monitors in the college computer lab.My first foray into an online community was linking into the ISCABBS (Iowa Student Computer Association BBS). Many hours of study lost to iFlirting.RealmsMudMMORPG.
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this.I still remember the pre-AOL days when I would log onto the Columbus BBS (forget what it was actually called). This would have been 1993 or so, and MUDs were a big draw for my 14-year old self.Downloading an hour-long CD on my 28.8 connection would LITERALLY take all night. I would leave Napster on overnight downloading 3-4 albums.Back when NetZero was introduced, and was a completely free dial-up service. I used them for the better part of a year until we finally got broadband...Basically, I remember it ALL, at least from about 1993 onward. :)ICQ, IRC (I still use this at times today!), etc...
 
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I remember when you had to clear your schedule to get gay on yourself because it took an hour to load a picture of a chick licking her own boob.

 
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I also remember being very excited to find a program that would troll a bunch of websites only d'loading pictures.

 
Before Party Poker, PokerStars, etc everybody played poker on Gamestorm for play money.

And everybody at the table wrote "nh" (nice hand) after every freaking hand. lol

 
Hearing the way my parents give their email addresses to other people:

"....right, at AOL dot com. All one word, all lowercase letters"

Wait, that still happens

 
'Nigel Tufnel said:
I remember when you had to clear your schedule to get gay on yourself because it took an hour to load a picture of a chick licking her own boob.
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Screw that, I was getting .JPEG files on 3.5" floppies back in 1990 or so from my buddy when we were in middle school. Would watch them on my crappy 286 computer. :)I think Christina Applegate was my first computer porn picture...
 
Man, I was addicted to IRC. Spent way, way too many hours on there. I remember someone sending me Windows 3.11, it took forever and then Windows 95 came out soon after. :lol:

 
napster + T1 connection + college network = greatest thing ever.

dialup on netZero + fapping to slow loading lady pics + mom picks up phone to call auntie = worst thing ever.

 
Remember when AOL wouldn't give you full access to the internet? You could only access the AOL intranet pages, the AOL chatrooms, and email. They actually scoffed at people who used the World Wide Web ("Why would anyone want to browse the WWW when AOL has everything you'd ever need right here!") :rolleyes:

 
My roommate got a computer with MSN web access in 1992. I remember being concerned that connecting to computer sites outside our time zone (via the WWW) would cause our phone bill to go up, due to long distance charges.

 
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'Joe Summer said:
Remember when AOL wouldn't give you full access to the internet? You could only access the AOL intranet pages, the AOL chatrooms, and email. They actually scoffed at people who used the World Wide Web ("Why would anyone want to browse the WWW when AOL has everything you'd ever need right here!") :rolleyes:
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I don't remember that but I do remember that for years there were people that thought AOL had to be used as THE browser on your computer. When I had AOL all you had to do was run it, log in, and then open up IE or Netscape.
 
'Marvin said:
%26%2339%3BJoe Summer said:
Remember when AOL wouldn't give you full access to the internet? You could only access the AOL intranet pages, the AOL chatrooms, and email. They actually scoffed at people who used the World Wide Web ("Why would anyone want to browse the WWW when AOL has everything you'd ever need right here!") :rolleyes:
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I don't remember that but I do remember that for years there were people that thought AOL had to be used as THE browser on your computer. When I had AOL all you had to do was run it, log in, and then open up IE or Netscape.
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AOL didn't even offer a browser until around 1995. Up to that point, you could only access the "outside world" by sending and receiving emails. It was like logging in to an old-school BBS.
 
Upgrading from a 1200 to a 14.4K modem. It was like night and day difference speed wise. Those BBS pages loaded super fast! Almost as remarkable as the day I went from 56K to cable, back when most people were still on dialup.

 
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My AOL chat name must define me and impress. Let's see....KafkaReader. Shoot, taken. KafkaReader77. Crap. KafkaReader1977? Crap...
 
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