The old internet

[fleshman03]

Wow. Just Wow. I remember reading about those things in my Information Science textbook this semester. LOL.

Seriously, I remember some of it, but I really came to the scene around 03.

 

[MacBH928]

again i say
sorry for the misunderstanding

I really meant the early days of the WWW, and not the internet where it was running back in the 70's

 

[mkrishnan]

again i say
sorry for the misunderstanding

I really meant the early days of the WWW, and not the internet where it was running back in the 70's

One of the most striking (and in this case, quite ironic) things to me about that particular "old internet" is that people actually took the time to use capitalization, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence composition in the "old days."

 

[JNB]

One of the most striking (and in this case, quite ironic) things to me about that particular "old internet" is that people actually took the time to use capitalization, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence composition in the "old days."

You mean before it was overrun by teenagers and preadolescents. Go ahead, say it.

 

[LizKat]

I still have a collection of those AOL discs somewhere for some reason....Good bonfire material

Yeah, I too miss the internet of back then

We hung those AOL discs out on strings as scarecrows in the garden, they had the effect of laserbeams in the long light of early spring mornings.

I liked that the net was text only in the beginning. I'm a big fan of info in plain text, you can read tons of stuff in seconds without all those dancing elephants so lavishly now provided by Flash-addicted page designers.

But I don't miss the bad old days part of having to pay long distance tolls to dial up to the privilege of paying AOL by the fracken clock.

What I like best now is the speed, depth and breadth of search results.

What I loathe now are phoney search results where what you're searching for is plugged right into the headers of some commercial web sites to make it look like they have the information you want. So you have to mess with your search terms to avoid the clutter of those guys. There is a special place in hell for them (and if by some chance that's not true, I'm willing to go down there temporarily and build one on spec).

 

[buccsmf1]

yea i also remember not even being able to get on the internet from 5pm to 8pm due to heavy traffic giving busy signals on the modem... I also remember pages taking 30-45 seconds to load (if a page doesnt load in less than a second now i get pissed). the old internet blew.... there's no denying it.

 

[hexonxonx]

i remember those aol disks. thank God those are gone

I found an old AOL 2.0 diskette yesterday and I laughed at the memories. That was what, about 1993 or so? Remember those days in the early 90s when you logged into AOL and found your mail box just full of porn simply because you were in a chatroom?

Remember the days of Compuserve and the old BBS where you would login and had to know these commands to do things on them? The biggest things to do on the BBS was looking at some photos (porn) and occasionally talking errr typing to people in chats.

Yeah, it was different times back then yes the growing pains of the internet and there were lots of people who had no idea still what the net was and thought it was nerdy to even look at a computer.