[Mach Stang]

Remember those days back in the 90's. heres a article reflect back to the first days of the internet

Info: A Look Back At The '90s Internet

[Notcho]

Hahaha..

When I was probably about 11, I took a 33.6K ISA modem out of an old computer, and put it into mine... it wouldn't auto install the driver (of course). I then spent several hours going through every single driver that Windows 98 had (didn't use a disk), trying to find one that worked. Finally, I found one. Somehow, the modem would connect at 115k every time.. my 56k modem would only connect at 32k or so.

[dr.gonzo!]

remember how long a 300x500 pic took to download on dial up?

Dial-up sound 700% slower (Creepy) - YouTube

Dial-up sound 700% slower (Creepy) - YouTube

[98FireyGT!]

You've got mail!

[HighDensity]

Originally Posted by 98FireyGT! You've got mail!

LMAO, that was me.

BLOCKBUSTER FREE MONTH "___ HOURS" CD!!!

It was 1996 when I was in HS and we had a 28kb? modem, anyway slow as dirt. I would drive home during my lunch break in HS to START the download of some nudes someone sent me the night before (after they told me in class) so that by the time I got home from school they would be DL'd so my parents would get home after the DL finished.

[302Army187]

luls, I remember my mother bought a 32mb hard drive, like 500kb ram computer for like $900 and we where all shitting bricks about how fast it was.


having a stack of disk's full of porn in my drawer. The sound of a disk being read, that "clicky" noise was practically a erection activator haha.

[98FireyGT!]

I remember updating from windows 95 to 98...

With like eleventygajillion floppy disks.

Anyone remember Kazaa?

[Dennis]

kazaa was the shit man. napster only a million times better.

remember when aol offered the unbelievably awesome free 10 whole hours of internet?. that was pure tits.

[Cathedral]

Originally Posted by Dennis kazaa was the shit man. napster only a million times better. remember when aol offered the unbelievably awesome free 10 whole hours of internet?. that was pure tits.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned how AOL discs used to EVERYWHERE and you'd get ten of them in the mail per day and they used to rain from the sky like the internet Gods were weeping.

Screw AOL. My first true experience was on CompuServe, with a 14.4k. I know my dad had Prodigy, but I'm not sure if it ever worked.

[Rich J]

Don't know if anyone would possibly remember this but does anyone by chance remember avidgamers.com?

It was pretty much a free webhost way back when. Very very basic, all they gave you was a login system and wouldn't let you use any PHP on the site at all. It was ALL html. People thought your site was awesome if you had the <marquee></marquee> going on in the title, was even better when you had images doing it.

[dr.gonzo!]

What were those weird chat room programs called that let you do weird shit in the chat rooms? I want to say a fader or warez shit. I think I had one called frost or phrost.

[dgt_mustang]

i remember going to get on the internet, connecting and while it was connecting i went to make a sandwich and get a glass of water to tide me over on waiting times! good stuff

[BWAL]

did anybody else use the free AOL discs to go skeet shooting with a bb gun

[Mach Stang]

lmao off floppy disks like no other. i remember when we got our compaqu that came with windows 95. We thought that thing was a super computer. top of the line at the time. Then we were in shock and awe when we upgraded to 98. lolz

[03SonicBoom]

No mention of 5.5" floppy discs?

Or when the 100mB ZIP discs were considered huge. I remember having those and thinking I could put anything on there and never run out of space. Now I've realized that I've created power point presentations for work that wouldn't fit on a zip disc.

[Mach Stang]

zip disc, were those the Cd's that were like half the size of a cd?

[03SonicBoom]

Originally Posted by Mach Stang zip disc, were those the Cd's that were like half the size of a cd?

No, those were mini discs.

Zip discs were roughly the same size a 3.5 floppy discs but about twice as thick. Here's a zip disc:

ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting

[MustangLouver]

I remember windows 95. The least buggy windows so far -___-

We had our Compaq with Win 95 FOREVER, the next one we had was Windows ME, and it's still sitting in my room. Use to play a game called Runescape on dial-up. And just thinking about this and the fact that I'm only 19 makes me wonder how fast the internet will be in 10 more years.

[ReverendDexter]

Originally Posted by dr.gonzo! What were those weird chat room programs called that let you do weird shit in the chat rooms? I want to say a fader or warez shit. I think I had one called frost or phrost.

Are you thinking of IRC? That's still around, though it's much less popular now. You have to have a client (like mIRC or BitchX) then connect to a server and go into the various channels.

"Warez" is the generic term for pirated software, which was traded a lot on IRC.

[dr.gonzo!]

oh. I can't remember what it was called but it was defenetly on AOL. I was able to tos people and do weird shit with the fonts and ASCII art. I wish I could remember what the hell they were called.aohell was one of them I think. I was on irc a little bit, but not much.