Early Internet Was Simpler… And Weirder

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Sybill 4 year s ago

#5 SNAKE

Roseanna 4 year s ago

And BBS's you could dial into, which were like far tinier versions of the Internet. More a local system with text games, files to download, message boards, quite a few other things.

Jeannie 4 year s ago

Roseanna,

thank you!

i had one from 1987 on.

Ora 4 year s ago

1997 aol chat rooms w bot clients..you would get mp3s while they were still illegal. Before napster limewire, and IRC. first person burning mixes and booting xbox and ps1 games from blockbuster. Bought my honda civic at 16 paid in full.

Aquilla 4 year s ago

Ora,

IRC was created in 1990

Brian 4 year s ago

The corporate take over of the internet. I so agree. The best part was no popup ads or tracking.

Alice 4 year s ago

#18 your modem had nothing to do with your sound, if you changed your dial string to have S25=0 it would mute it.

"Mom, Put Down The Phone, I Want The Internet!"

"Telling people not to use the phone because you were on the internet."