Tell me of the internet experience of 90s or if you're a youngfag 00s from your country.
My country: dial up modems. A whopping 33kbps if you're an average boi. 56kbps if you're a rich boi. Internet time was reserved for nights usually because the phone went eeerghbrrraaaaakkkkhkhkhkhhwhahahahahadooodooodooo while connected and my parents wanted to make phone calls. We wrote down internet addresses on paper and shared the mint ones with our friends. The design of pages was ridiculous obviously, but the content was higher quality than now. A lot of pure text sites existed and search engines had indexes by categories you could browse instead of what google or any other engine now offers.
Pic is a typical elementary school child homepage. Lots of gifs and personal information. Very polite too. (I wont post the address, yes, it's still up after 20 years, or pics from there).
My grandmother gifted me an AOL browser CD installer thinking that installing it would give me Internet
Nathaniel Hernandez
That is quite peculiar because I distinctly remember a time when I was visiting relatives and one of the young ones asked me and I swear to god I still remember his face: "do you have the internet installed?". As if it was a program..
I think my fist permanet was a thing called Atlas ADSL. I might be wrong tho since it was a veeeeery long time ago. You remember that shit?
Chase Morales
Lol I remember Atlas ADSL. Yes, fuck yeah, the phone got disconnected it built up a huge bill for Eesti Telekom or whatever it was.
Benjamin Phillips
I don't think it was even called Eesti Telekom back then. It must have been just Eesti Telefon lol.
Isaac Robinson
Haha, possibly, yeah. Downloading mp3s from Napster took ages and the bill was huge later :DDD
Juan Foster
Dial up noises and no one could use the phone while you were browsing. Loading a picture was something you started then came back to later.
Lucas Johnson
One thing I remember was that when you browsed around for how to make a homepage there were instructions specifying you should always greet your visitor and in the end say thanks for visiting. A webpage was like something you would go through and then be done with it, like a short book or something. And you definitely had to have a counter on your page to let your visitor know how many people have visited your site and what number they are.
God damn I didn't even have a harddrive large enough to fit all those Metallica albums :D Had to hack together the rudimentary "soundcard" with the tape recorder and buffer them on tapes :DDDD
Isaac Reed
I was was very impressed when I printed out stuff from American sites. Internet was a great thing back in the 90s, nowadays it's not such a big deal anymore, but we were very early in getting widespread internet access.
Angel Long
Did you have rows with parents over it? I know I did. To the point of removing my PC rights sometimes.
Me too. The first thing that really blew me away was a site that gave you a couple of MB of space to host your homepage. I think one of them was called Tripod and Angel Fire or something like that.
The things I printed out we're mostly cheatcodes for games. I sold them to my friends xDDD
Asher Hughes
>Tripod and Angel Fire >The things I printed out we're mostly cheatcodes for games. LOL, pure nostalgia right there. Agh man, those were the times.
Andrew Flores
A few times. Mostly for downloading a bunch of dumb shit.
Even as a kid, I liked going deep into these oldschool websites. That or on Flash sites.
My older brother was using the original Napster.
Justin Howard
my mother would pick up the phone and hang yo cut me off the internet
Dominic Peterson
>need to wait for minutes just for html page to load jesus, what a time
Joseph Ross
Do you happen to remember the name of the first big Estonian porn site? I know I went there a lot, but I've long since forgotten the name.
Jason Wright
I doubt these experiences differ much by country. 90s internet was the same everywhere, the difference is just how many people had access to it.
Angel Walker
Do you remember any specific Polish sites/forums from back then?
Jaxon Perry
Kek
Juan Fisher
Not really, no. I didn't browse much until we finally got ISDN and a pay-per-month connection. Dial up was expensive as shit, I'd just search something, wait for it to load and disconnect. The first sites I used regularly were probably Newgrounds and Home of the Underdogs later in the 90s.
Robert Evans
I remember a couple of forums from back then. First one was a forum that was created by some guys working in an electronics store. It was very active and even a child who wanted to do a killer amplifier for his sick diy speakers was welcomed with very little shit thrown around (as long as you didn't want too much spoonfeeding). A second one I remember was a site that still exist today, a sort of "price observer" for computer parts. Very good community and always helpful/insightful. And of course the webring for a game that I don't think many people know: Transport Tycoon. This last one was a max autist zone where people designed trains and stuff, pixel by pixel and shared strategies for building rail-networks lol.
Christian Robinson
>And of course the webring for a game that I don't think many people know: Transport Tycoon Kidding? Transport Tycoon was and still is the shit. Rollercoaster Tycoon too, Chris Sawyer was a genius. Nowaday there's an open source remake called OpenTTD with multiplayer and some quality of life changes. Same for RCT2, building parks together on multi is a blast.
Isaac Garcia
>OpenTTD Does it have the same jazzy/funky soundtrack? You know, the one that sounds like you would sip a glass of single casket whiskey and smoke a good cigar while doing important logistics choices in your empire? :DDD
That site made me remember that back then there were people who payed you money for hosting their banners on your site. The banners were all standard size for some reason. Don't know why that happened to be the case since none of them really fitted any predefined margins of a screen or site layout.
Justin Peterson
Jazzy enough. Or you can just copy files from TTD and have all the original graphics and music along with the new features.
Oliver Diaz
Checked out the graphics. Not too bad. Not the authentic nostalgia experience, but definitely worth a download. And it's available on linux which is good. Wouldn't want to dualboot just because of that silly old game.
Chase Torres
Do you guys still remember videogames from the 90's? I used the play the shit out of Disney's magic artist drawing game. I probably still have the CD somewhere.
Around 2000 I used to play nukezone and a similar game of it called df5.org
I have no idea what happened to df5 but it was a great competitor of nukezone.
Chase Wright
Slow as fuck, but somehow I managed to enjoy it. > The design of pages was ridiculous obviously, but the content was higher quality than now. CSS was a mistake.
Chase Reyes
You mean computer games I presume (not console)?
I remember basically all of them. Lemmings is the first one I remember playing and getting frustrated over. Lands of Lore was probably the first RPG style game. Aaaaand Lotus Rally in the racing simulator category. But that was all in the beginning of 90s.
>spacejam I actually bought the soundtrack on cassette back in the day :DDD
Charles Garcia
Lemmings and Lotus were DOS games basically. Remember using DOS to run games, before Windows and CDs was a thing. GTA1 required a better computer.
Carter Gutierrez
>Remember using DOS to run games The reason I started learning English on my own was because the DOS manual was in English only, but the games needed playing xDD
This site is so obnoxious it is unquestionably from the 90s :DD
Tyler Jenkins
They were great games, as good or much better than any of the fake Chinese 9000 in 1 yellow cartridge nintendo games
Leo James
Any of you used Encarta?
Nathaniel Ortiz
I went to 123spill.no a lot. It was really just a site with links to various flash games. There was eventually a Swedish version too, but it had fewer games listed I think. I also went on Newgrounds a lot, and I watched the Homestarrunner flash cartoons, even though my English was pretty lacking when I was a little kid.
William Robinson
Yep. Got it as a present I think back in 95 or 96... I remember the soundtrack or it being awesome. A lot of "world music". But the content by then was already all up on the internet so having an encyclopedia on a CD was kind of past the expiration date.
Gabriel Allen
I remember browsing porlaputa.cl until my big sis pointed out to me a much """better""" alternative, in those good old times..
Bentley Russell
i could not be arsed to use internet when it was on dial-up. but i remember in '99 we would get ADSL, really exciting, i lay staring at the router for a lamp to start glowing.
Ah 123spill, great memories, slingshot santa, trial bikes, etc
I watched those animated stick figure fights on Newgrounds
Tyler James
>GTA1 some cool friends of my brother had it on their computer. we we're gonna copy it onto a floppy disc but the file was too big. i started crying.
I didn't find Newgrounds until in the 00s and only spent a brief amount of time there since by then it seemed really childish and stupid to me. Still, got some pretty ebin trip-hop tunes from there (it was a thing back in y2k).
Oh yess!!!! This was the shit!! :DDD
William Hernandez
Wow, you must also have a "tech dad", we had a big binder full of all kinds of random games.
Samuel Edwards
Yeah, my dad was a computer engineer. Just like I turned out to be. The cone, the stump, I guess.
Aaron Rogers
>I watched those animated stick figure fights on Newgrounds Me too man. Those were the days, the 00s are underrated. I specifically remember a game called Tag der Arbeit where you're a punk burning cars and stuff. I recently installed e J2ME-version on an old Sony Ericsson phone.
John Long
I rarely played anything on newgrounds, it was a bit of a clusterfuck of a page, like all sites really.
Kayden Thomas
>old Sony Ericsson phone. To remember the days when Ericsson was a thing unto itself... (don't tell the finns, but the phones were actually better than nokias).
Lincoln Johnson
That game was on 123spill, forgot that I was wring about Newgrounds.
Logan Brooks
i don't remember anything beating this
Anthony White
R320.
It was pure bliss. Compared to that popular, but yet a plastic piece of shit, it was otherworldly.
Daniel Young
would use altavista for porn only. can't remember why exactlly but it was more efficient for that
Luke Cooper
Do you remember what the people thought about Netscape back then? I remember it was considered something like hipsters are today. A fart in the wind. No one serious about computing and the internet used it, but a lot of people advocated it as "the best" (failing to see the irony due to history being linear).
Jaxon Ortiz
lmao
I still remember when Opera was paid. it was the best browser back then
Kayden Cook
Started with dial-up ~2003-04, was 9 years old, would make my own web pages on freewebs, geocities, and matmice. Loved building those but didn't really maintain them.
Got into a game called Kings of Chaos, a text-based MMORPG. Also Neopets. Was a big Nintendo/Yoshi fanboy. Also xanga.
