“The internet came to the masses when I was a teenager and one of my friends got a modem. We would get some alcohol and sit up all night talking taking to people… in AMERICA!!”
“You couldn’t actually call someone while they were using the internet.”
“I remember my mum began to hate the internet because of this. She has always loved to burn up the phone lines talking to fam. Then me and dad started using the computer and hogging up the phone line.”
“That maze game jump scare.”
“That maze game jump scare.”
“Those old gifs that people would email to each other. They seem so simple now, but f@#k was it funny in those days.”
“I put a virus on the family computer because I Googled ‘boobs’.”
“I miss the crazy feeling of being able to be with your friends at school all day, and then come home to be with them virtually through MSN. I remember customizing display names, display pictures, sending emojis (then called emoticons) and asking everyone for their e-mails to add them online. RIP MSN.”
“My family got a WebTV box in the ’90s. We were all sitting in the living room, figuring it out. We found a site that said it would take our photo, so we gathered on the couch in front of the TV and smiled while a countdown ticked away. When it hit zero, the screen flashed and then said to wait a moment for our photo to be processed.
We all thought this was pretty cool. After a moment, the photo loaded, and it was a picture of a chimp. That’s when we realised that it didn’t have some hidden built-in camera and we’d been had.”
“2004. Playing games on Nickelodeon.com at my mum’s office.”
“Late 90’s, trying to download a song and after eight hours it would kick me off and I’d have to start over.”
“I searched for song lyrics and printed them so I could learn them.”
“I was a kid in 1992 when my dad bought a computer and hooked it up to the internet. He was immediately pirating games onto floppy disks. Almost every day I would go to the Sesame Street website, let it load for like half an hour, then watch a two or three-frame animation of some of the characters.”
“Playing on Neopets. Then getting several boyfriends on Neopets, proposing marriage to one of them with rings we sent each other, and being neomarried and letting everyone know on the neoboards.”
“Emailing my cousin and asking my mum when it would get to her and she said, ‘well, I think it’s probably already there.’ We just looked at each other like it was the most bizarre thing.”
“Showing my age here, but at work we had to take turns dialling in to get online. If we needed to send an email or look something up, we had to arrange with the head of IT to do it. If someone was online too long, they were called and told to get off.”
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That's 30 years ago...
remember that the fastest dial-up modems (56k) would download around 8Kb/s