Nostalgic Things From The Early Days Of Internet

Diah 2 year s ago

I remember working in an office in '99-'00, and complaining about how terrible Ask Jeeves was. My buddy told me about this new thing called "googol, but spelled wrong." In the beginning, it was soooo much better than it is now. There was no corporate influence, just a bunch of guys who wanted a better search engine. Greed eventually corrupts all things.

Orilla 2 year s ago

All of the great flash animation/game sites like newgrounds, weebl's stuff and homestar runner. These might all still exist, but were around to entertain us long before youtube.

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Janie 2 year s ago

#13 What you say?!

Brady 2 year s ago

Janie,

Make your time!

Arthusa 2 year s ago

Got my first computer in '85. No big businesses, no jurisdiction, just pure anarchy.

A common saying was "97% of the people online are guys. They other 3%.. are lying."
I am female. Fun times, fun times.

Norbert 2 year s ago

I still live by the recommendation of the last post, but I would say it like don't share ANY real personal information on the internet.

“The pop-ups. Oh my god, the pop-ups. You’d open a webpage and 20 windows would open and most of them were porn ads.

It took a while for pop-up blockers to become a thing, now you can’t even advertise with pop-ups because all browsers block them by default. I still occasionally refer to my ad blocker as my pop-up blocker.”