What is so ancient that only an Internet veteran can remember?

Nikki1989

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What is so ancient that only an Internet veteran can remember?

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RandomGirl42 Follow
Guru Age: 26 , mho 70%

6 mo

Ty for inviting me to share but since the internet is older than I am I'm not really qualified to answer however I am finding these answers so very funny. Listening to you guys is like going to a dinosaur museum or something. 🤣

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- jJanSmit
  
  6 mo
  Now I'm insulted 😉
  
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- RandomGirl42
  
  6 mo
  And TY for the MHO 😊
  
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Jessica405 Follow
Guru Age: 31 , mho 59%

6 mo

Noisy dial up modems working at 1200 baud. Acoustic coupler modems.
Never used them, but my bruv and I inherited them along with much Atari 8-bit stuff.

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- Jessica405
  
  6 mo
  Thank you for MHO!
  
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Likes2drive Follow
InfluencerMaster Age: 59

6 mo
1.1K opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

do you mean like Dial up Internet and trying to find a local number that wasn’t busy to get through to AOL and wait for a connection so I could use my Windows 95?

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- Likes2drive
  
  6 mo
  Netzero was a free internet provider with ads I remember also and I met my now ex wife in an AOL chat room in 1997
  
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BonzoInBitburg Follow
Yoda Age: 56 , mho 35%

6 mo

Getting AOL CDs in every single thing that was delivered to my house. I think I got 50 every week. Search engines Lycos, or Excite or searching by AOL keyword.
I had an ecommerce site in the late 90s and I would code all day and upload my 125MB site with my 56k dial up modem at night. It took all night and I had to sit and watch it to make sure I didn't lose my connection

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AviatorTom Follow
Master Age: 59

6 mo
623 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

How about the original Adventure game, played on DOS, no graphics, keyboard input and B/W text output. With magic words plugh and xyzzy to help navigate the caves.
Here's a screenshot I found online...

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Tamera952 Follow
Guru Age: 41 , mho 41%

6 mo

OG AOL chat rooms? (They were the Wild West) …. or getting booted offline from dial upwhen someone else in the house picked up another phone line in the house, kicking you offline.

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emeraldsaphire Follow
Yoda Age: 31 , mho 63%

6 mo

Geocites, IRC, MSN, Pidgin, Shock wave Flash player, Ask Jeeves, The google Toobar, All the stupid tool bars that use to exist.

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- Tamera952
  
  6 mo
  OMG! …AskJeeves !! I forgot about that
  
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Agape93 Follow
Master Age: 34

6 mo

Getting kicked off the internet because someone answered the phone.

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Natasha1995 Follow
Xper 6 Age: 30 , mho 45%

6 mo

Modems that would dial a number and make those funny noises.

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slatyb Follow
Master Age: 52

6 mo
513 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

Dialup internet, Usenet, Internet Relay Chat, Bulletin board systems.

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whiskeyontherocks Follow
Xper 6 Age: 43

6 mo

AS/400
IBM’s shipping receiving program from 1986
It was just a black screen with green text
I think the final update was 1992.
Also just found out my phone is considered vintage.

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- zagor
  
  6 mo
  I worked at a place that was still using one of those. They finally replaced it with a PC network.
  
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DJB72 Follow
Guru Age: 54

6 mo

www.hamsterdance.com

Sadly no longer with us...

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MrChinaski Follow
Yoda Age: 46

6 mo

Les Terrible Cernettes (European Centre for Nuclear Research)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1e1eLe1ihT0

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Xawyx-2 Follow
Master Age: 44

6 mo
355 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

I remember Alta Vista, Northern Lights, Dial-up internet, Floppy disks and CDs, MySpace, Ask Jeeves etc.

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Friendlybro79 Follow
Yoda Age: 46

6 mo

You should just ask Jeeves to give you this answer.

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loveslongnails Follow
Master Age: 40

6 mo

AOL chat rooms. Heard about them from my parents.

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gottogames313gotag Follow
Xper 1 Age: 24

6 mo

these signs "" XD " and "" 1337"

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AngryCarl2 Follow
Yoda Age: 66

6 mo

I remember having a CD-ROM from AOL which contained the AOL software needed to connect to the internet through a dial-up modem.

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Straight2thepoint Follow
Xper 5 Age: 39

6 mo

No one better pick up or call during this epic Netscape endeavor!

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bananathunder Follow
Guru Age: 36

6 mo

MySpace, Limewire, Yahoo Messenger, Ebaum's World, free game sites

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Flower7 Follow
Master Age: 40 , mho 45%

6 mo

Yahoo Messenger

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4ngelic Follow
Guru Age: 109 , mho 32%

6 mo

yahoo answers, yahoo avatars

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RCONFIGURATION1 Follow
Xper 4 Age: 37 , mho 34%

2 mo

Damn I remember that site. That thing was creepy

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boundless Follow
Xper 5 Age: 109 , mho 35%

6 mo

Usenet is still around.

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- boundless
  
  6 mo
  lycos and hotbot search engines are still around.
  
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- boundless
  
  6 mo
  webcrawler is still around.
  
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- boundless
  
  6 mo
  A lot of sites I use to use in the 1990s had their domains expire in the mid 2000s. Either they were bought out and decommission to reduce competition for competing websites or the owners moved on to other projects.
  
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- boundless
  
  6 mo
  O Reilly books are still around... That's how a lot of us learned how to program the internet before the internet had infinite resources to teach us.
  
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Nice222 Follow
Guru Age: 55

6 mo

AOL dial up. Or Juno email.

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- emeraldsaphire
  
  6 mo
  I've never heard of Juno email lol
  
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- Nice222
  
  6 mo
  @emeraldsaphire it was one of the first free email.
  
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beenherebefore Follow
Yoda Age: 36

6 mo

MySpace dot com

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abc3643 Follow
Master Age: 63 , mho 38%

6 mo

Medscape

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Massageman Follow
Master Age: 74

6 mo
331 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

a 286 computer.

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WonderingManII Follow
Guru Age: 47

6 mo

The BBS - Bulletin board system.

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fuddly Follow
Explorer Age: 60

5 mo

Alta Vista search engine🙂

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- fuddly
  
  5 mo
  Dial up Internet
  But everyone remembers that?
  
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CubaPirate Follow
Master Age: 56

6 mo

Dial up connection

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DavyJ Follow
Xper 3 Age: 57

6 mo

Ask Jeeves

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shortster Follow
Master Age: 42

6 mo
314 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.

Netscape Navigator

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jackieistired Follow
Yoda Age: 23

6 mo

Ebaums world

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