1990's internet memories

04-08-2015 09:45AM #1

I've been spending way too much time looking over old geocities pages from the 90s. Geocities itself has been taken down from the internet, but all the old pages are archived here. Lets just take a minute to remember how awful the internet was back then.

Some of my favourite websites so far

Culchie News
Kat & Jan's Boyzone Page - Excusitely badly designed
Xena Warrior Princess, fan page

I used to have a geocities page myself, but I can't find it, nor do I think I want to. Any of you want to share your old geocities/ angelfire pages?

Some of you were probably in nappies when some of these pages went up, I think it's easy to forget just how far the internet has changed in the last 15 years.

kjl · 04-08-2015 09:51AM

It used to take 1-2 mins for a picture to download, if you were looking at porn you would get a little bit every few seconds, the excitement to see if it was actually a good picture was thrilling.

I also remember around 1997 being in yahoo chat, I was able to fake private messages with a special code to make your text black. Hard to explain but I was trolling back then.

Duff · 04-08-2015 09:55AM

The OG Space Jam website.

http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

04-08-2015 09:56AM

kjl wrote: »

It used to take 1-2 mins for a picture to download, if you were looking at porn you would get a little bit every few seconds, the excitement to see if it was actually a good picture was thrilling.

Also, porn pics saved on floppy discs with some coded title like "history project"

God help anyone looking up one of my history projects...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 04-08-2015 09:57AM

Ah, the porn. No longer did one have to watch a foreign arthouse movie on Channel 4 at 3am in the hopes of a flash of minge!

pebbles21 · 04-08-2015 10:01AM

ICQ ..Is that still about?

5starpool · 04-08-2015 10:05AM

I remember starting college in 1994 and buying a copy of Wired just to get the enclosed booklet which listed some good internet sites as I didn't really know any. I had obviously never been on the internet before. The computers were only internet enabled after 6pm in UL (except the 12-16 computers in the library), but I learned from someone how to alter a config file to allow me to use the internet from any computer at any time.

I remember passing time reading scripts on the bbc website from shows like Bottom and Blackadder, and being amazed that I could do that.

Ah the low tech nostalgia.

Edit: Instead of having email as well, students had to make do with an internal messaging system called SUMS. By the start of second year though it had all changed totally.

briany · 04-08-2015 10:10AM

Oceanfree Dialup CDs.

"Penny a minute. How can you go wrong?", we said.

Oasis1974 · 04-08-2015 10:12AM

IOL No Limits greatest deal in the dark dial-up years. Even after it was pulled over excessive use

keithclancy · 04-08-2015 10:14AM

Was much more interesting to shock your friends back then, you'd send them a porn link on Geocities and they'd sit there while the image slowly loaded ... passed the boobs ... down to .... a big huge willy.

These days nobody appreciates shock porn.

Akrasia · 04-08-2015 10:14AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I've been spending way too much time looking over old geocities pages from the 90s. Geocities itself has been taken down from the internet, but all the old pages are archived here. Lets just take a minute to remember how awful the internet was back then.

Some of my favourite websites so far

Culchie News
Kat & Jan's Boyzone Page - Excusitely badly designed
Xena Warrior Princess, fan page

I used to have a geocities page myself, but I can't find it, nor do I think I want to. Any of you want to share your old geocities/ angelfire pages?

Some of you were probably in nappies when some of these pages went up, I think it's easy to forget just how far the internet has changed in the last 15 years.

My Eyes!!
The goggles, they do nothing!

KungPao · 04-08-2015 10:15AM

Pop ups all over the place (no adblock them days) and pc riddled with viruses and dialers from dodgy web sites.

whiskeyman · 04-08-2015 10:15AM

'Get off the feckin internet, I want to make a phone call!!!"

keithclancy · 04-08-2015 10:21AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

'Get off the feckin internet, I want to make a phone call!!!"

Or when you have call waiting and someone rings you in the middle of a download :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

kylith · 04-08-2015 10:22AM

pebbles21 wrote: »

ICQ ..Is that still about?

"UH-OH!"

kjl · 04-08-2015 11:40AM

Oasis1974 wrote: »

IOL No Limits greatest deal in the dark dial-up years. Even after it was pulled over excessive use

That wasn't the 90's

cloud493 · 04-08-2015 11:49AM

Dial up boxes were amazing. Can't remember if I ever even used it but, I remember the sound.

Wibbs · 04-08-2015 11:55AM

I had this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fInkeBOGX0M

Apple's e-World. Wasn't too bad actually. While it lasted(not very long).

wendell borton · 04-08-2015 12:05PM

http://bojackhorseman.com/

lertsnim · 04-08-2015 12:09PM

An hour for a 4 minute mp3 was the norm in my area. It was horrible having a 16.8k connection, and that was on a good day. Also it was a time when no limits didn't actually mean no limits

fred funk }{ · 04-08-2015 12:11PM

We had a book with nearly all the available websites around. It wasn't that big of a book.

spurious · 04-08-2015 12:14PM

I remember being informed by a Telecom Eireann minion that 4 hours per day on the Internet was 'excessive use'. They hadn't a clue what it was going to become.

I still have a working 6 digit ICQ number - I wonder is it worth anything?

whomitconcerns · 04-08-2015 12:15PM

Ahhh the dancing baby...passed many a laugh with that!

briany · 04-08-2015 12:26PM

lertsnim wrote: »

An hour for a 4 minute mp3 was the norm in my area. It was horrible having a 16.8k connection, and that was on a good day. Also it was a time when no limits didn't actually mean no limits

I'll say one thing for dial-up piracy - you really appreciated the songs you downloaded because you would probably only get one or two a night, and your web browsing experience was already slow, but it pretty much came to a halt when a download was going on.

CardBordWindow · 04-08-2015 12:27PM

I remember downloading Napster, which took so long to download, that I didn't get to download anything until the next time I was online.

And when I did get back, I downloaded Californication by the Chillies at 3.53kb/sec!

The Iron Giant · 04-08-2015 12:34PM

MSN Messenger. And repeatedly "appearing offline" only to "return online" moments later in a vein attempt to get someone's attention who was already online. Repeating as nauseum til they said hello.

Yeah I was a cool kid who knew all the moves...

Ahem.

RomanKnows · 04-08-2015 12:34PM

A lad in school getting caught trying to pull the flute off himself to X-Files porn. He was caught by a teacher as he decided to use the dialup computer just off the teachers room.

Keyzer · 04-08-2015 12:47PM

Man, those were the days...

Trying to play online first person shooters, stuttering around the maps.

My mother pickinging up the phone and severing my connection to the collective.

Earthhorse · 04-08-2015 12:48PM

Man, the early days of the net were great. It really was the wild west back then in the sense that no one had a clue what they were doing or how anything should look.

Used to love going into IRC and screwing around. Remember teaching a kid from Belgium what "waffling on" meant. He asked me for my e-mail address. I asked my brother what that was and whether we had one. Used to love just striking up random conversations with people from the other side of the globe. It's mad to me how the novelty of that has worn off. It was so exciting all those years ago.

It might not have been the 90s but I remember e-mailing the woman behind acamgirl.com after The Sunday Times ran an article on her and reading her hilarious replies to creeps who would harass her; Freak of the Week I think she used to call them.

And following a Canadian blogger called Justice who used to switch between posting vitriol about politics and pics of herself in her underwear.

Oh yes, the internet had it all.

And hamsterdance was an obvious winner from day one.

JupiterKid · 04-08-2015 12:53PM

I got my first email account when I was in university in 1994. I remember emailing my sister and thinking it was really amazing at the time.:o

A few years later I was using the internet proper - pics would take ages to download but again it seemed amazing at the time. It was so slow compared to today but back then there was nothing to compare it to. In my first proper job we had one computer that was internet enabled and everybody seemed to want to use it - ah, the late 90s!:pac:

Son Of A Vidic · 04-08-2015 01:20PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

1990's internet memories

When it took 2-3 minutes just to download one boob.:(

1990's internet memories

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