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How the Internet Used to Be

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  • #32
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I had some serious phone bills all the same


  • #33
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    gurramok wrote: »
    I paid a fortune to EircoN for ISDN back then, oh so we were so ripped off by a monopoly. And then Ireland Offline was born!

    I had a dial up one way and my downloads came through my a sattelite dish. Fantastic for Napster but awful for Counter Strike or any other online game for that matter. Then we got ISDN, changed my life! Often got home from school on a Friday, turned on the PC, logged into my favourite game and before ya knew it it was time for school again on the Monday, eating my body weight in crisps and red bull and holding in my piss to a point where I'm sure I have permanent damage!


  • #34
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    "Get off the phone I want to use the Internet"


  • #35
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Back in dial-up days we had a money jar for the internet, if you wanted to use it it would cost you 60p per hour... I can tell you, there were massive phone bills circa 95-00


  • #36
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    The dial up screechy, annoying noise. I'm probably one of the only people on the planet that actually liked it! Miss it in a strange way


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  • #37
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    and it was all so amazing and new and mindblowing, wtf happened.

    http://www.internetis****.org/


  • #38
    MaroonAndGreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭MaroonAndGreen


    pharmaton wrote: »
    and it was all so amazing and new and mindblowing, wtf happened.

    http://www.internetis****.org/

    It got better


  • #39
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Doras search engine and Tinet.ie email.


  • #40
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Hold on as this is down memory nostalgia way, who here remembers using 56k over Windows 3.1 on Netscape?! Huh?! :)


  • #41
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    MaroonAndGreen wrote: »
    It got better

    faster and bigger, really not better.


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  • #42
    shleedance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭shleedance


    Playing chess on Yahoo, Rotten.com, ebaumsworld, screeching sound of the modem when dialing in, chatting up people on YIM, trolling on yahoo chat rooms, making ****ty websites on geocities and downloading ringtones for my phone.

    There was no youtube, broadband or social media. A completely different time.


  • #43
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Metallica suing everyone.


  • #44
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    pharmaton wrote: »
    and it was all so amazing and new and mindblowing, wtf happened.

    http://www.internetis****.org/

    No.


  • #45
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    whirlpool wrote: »
    No.

    ya sound like a junkie :P


  • #46
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    FearDark wrote: »
    Before 1997 ish everything was a pay site! No porntube then my friend!

    Streaming movies did exist. But god help you if you tried to watch one.

    They were mostly still pictures.

    Tiny thumbnails, seeing a female in what looked like a "lovely picture", and clicking on it. It took about 1-2 minutes to load the picture fully, and popups.. :mad:... 20 popups per picture. Internet Explorer seemed better than netscape to some, whilst waiting for the picture to load you were constantly closing popups that wouldn't close until they were fully loaded, and that took AAAAGGGEESSSS..

    Porn was possible, but you worked, for one picture.


  • #47
    SEANoftheDEAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭SEANoftheDEAD


    I actually miss how the internet used to be. Now a days every Tom, Dick and Harry has access and the rise of social networking has actually bothered me.

    Going back 10-15 years it was almost like a cult thing to have internet and as someone else pointed out I also miss the old dial up tone. At around that time I was mad into WWF, and finding a website via Altavista that had wallpapers or theme music gave ye a unique feeling as there was time involved searching for the content that was fairly rare.
    We didn't have the luxury of Google images Pirate Bay back then :(


  • #48
    McCrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭McCrack


    Askjeeves.com

    Man he knew everything. I was well impressed.


  • #49
    ahjaysis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭ahjaysis


    I still use mIRC, Xchat, and Counter Strike (have a little portable edition on a usb)

    mIRC and Xchat are still pretty huge.


  • #50
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    First ever "internet" experience - playing 688 over a phone line with a friend who would dial in over a modem.

    Newsgroups - eg rec.music.beatles, alt.music.

    Ireland Online.

    Morpheus.

    Real Player.

    Lycos.

    This is the first website btw: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html


  • #51
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,799 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    MSN messenger in your system tray, and looking at your transcripts afterwards.
    MSN Groups
    Setting up a hotmail account
    Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Excite, Lycos
    Configuring dial up through your Internet Options
    Real Player
    Metallica whining about Napster
    Oceanfree chat
    Phantom FM's chat room
    Sky News technology slot/show
    Ordering XP service pack 2 on disc rather than downloading it
    Spybot Search and Destroy, Adware
    BBC Cult message boards

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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  • #52
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Marks Bookmarks


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I always loved the sound of the dial up :)

    Anyone remember Paddynet?

    ICQ was good craic too


  • #54
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    VIP anyone?
    Virtual Irish Pub.

    Was a great laugh passing time working nights.


  • #55
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Remember when you'd dial a local number to go online and in the early days the biggest problem was the lines would be busy.

    You had to keep redialing!

    And email used to be 98% actual messages and usually provided by you ISP who didn't even read your mail and pitch ads at you!


  • #56
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    gurramok wrote: »
    Hold on as this is down memory nostalgia way, who here remembers using 56k over Windows 3.1 on Netscape?! Huh?! :)
    Nearly. I had Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Disliked W95 intently when it came out!


  • #57
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Having to prolong ejaculation because it took ages for a picture of a naked woman to load. Viruses that weren't clandestine and actually informed you of their presence in some cases.


  • #58
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I remember going into an Internet cafe in town to print out hundreds of guitar tabs!


  • #59
    Slutmonkey57b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    Seeing a website for the first time at a friend's house whose dad was a software developer, using mosaic and the then brand new netscape with the big blue N. I remember being more impressed with mosaic because of its globe. They had a dedicated phone line for it!

    Going to college and using telnet for the first time. alf2, and knowing all that power was being handed over to idiots. Writing a website in a text editor. The sight of rooms full of computers waiting to have games loaded on them while arts students wrote essays. MUDs. Winamp and seeing the difference in size between an mp3 file and a normal sound file.

    Being told by someone to go on cloud boards and ignoring them! Modem noises. Staying in a computer lab all weekend and leaving on a Monday morning at 6am. Swiping into the hamlab with that Black passcard.


  • #60
    snausages
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭snausages


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Going on to search for pictures of Trish Stratus from Wrestling and freaking out my parents would walk in on me.

    I printed out a load of those... and was caught :(


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  • #61
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Used to play MOHAA online, I remember getting ISDN and it being savage, but quicker if I signed on with two phone lines! Dad ultimately got "midband" because he thought it would sort it out, but the pings were too high, so I was still using ISDN until I racked up an incredible bill one month. Game over for MOHAA.


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