Chatrooms on ilse.nl
Simple webpages.
No ads.
Dial up noises.
Altavista was the search engine. Astalavista was the search engine for pirated material.
“Get off the internet, I need to call grandma!”
And literally not knowing which websites exist out there and having no search engine to look em up
flash games
youtube funny animations, minecraft classic gameplays, roblox screaming people on youtube, furry fandom on discord and reddit too, furry youtubers, furry community, i would make fan games of fnaf and post them on a website called gamejolt, i got my first online boyfriend at 14 on discord but it sucked because he was 26
America Online. Chat rooms. A/S/L? Beware sexual predators.
19/f/Cali always
A/s/l?
Prodigy, then AOL, then real internet. Also eWorld, which was like AOL but for Mac users. It was kinda pointless.
Early CompuServe. I don’t remember the exact timeframe but it was rather early. The first time I enjoyed the internet? Probably unreal tournament in 99. Me and my friends used to play and listen to Korn, Rammstein, limp Bizkit, P.O.D., slipknot, static-x, rage against the machine, etc. whoever was last in GoldenEye, played unreal until they came back in again.
Compuserve back in like ‘91.
CompuServe was a large part of the lack of parenting I received during the 90s. 3-5 hours a night, plus work/school and sleep means I didn’t see my mom much for more than a decade.
modem dialing sound
That, followed by the unmistakable “uh-oh” icq sound.
Probably Neopets. I heard some of my classmates talking about it at school so I used my dad’s computer to create an account. Still have login access and all my original Neopets are still there 20+ years later!
Gotta find the Netscape disk. Gotta get mom off the phone. Gotta wait 5 minutes for the space jam website to load.
Getting booted from your game because Mom got a phone call.
720p video was a straight up luxury that most of us didn’t bother with because it took way too long to buffer lol.
It was a very different time.
Playing Star Trek in my high-school counselor’s office on a teletype machine that was connected to the local college’s main frame. The teletype used a roll of paper. Type in a move, and a new “screen” was printed on the paper. I must have used miles of paper playing that game.
I also played this in High School. We thought it was fantastic.
Holy shit. I never knew teletype ever became a civilian technology. I only know of it from my military training. Though it was old technology by the time we trained on it.
bitftp@pucc
If anyone gets that reference, congratulations, you are officially old.
I managed to blow up the BITNET mail quota right through the ceiling within a few days…
I was a simple kid back then. I remember having seen 3D renders of south park characters back in the 90s. Marvin the Martian fansites. The #Trivia room in TalkCity.
