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1990's internet memories

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  • #32
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,144 ✭✭✭✭neris


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0


  • #33
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    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!

    Indeed, 90s porn was the downfall of channel 4s 'eurotrash'


  • #34
    plys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    before google, there was altavista...


  • #35
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    briany wrote: »
    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.

    And almost cry when you download a song to find some bollocks mislabelled it for ****s and giggles.


  • #36
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    ^^ was just going to say altavista was my homepage, and used netscape

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

    the horrible noise, and fingers crossed it would connect.

    Waiting 30mins for an mp3 hoping it was legit.

    Telling my mother I had a hotmail account and saying she can get one and her thinking it was "hot male"


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dancing babies, Teri Hatcher


  • #38
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    I remember a tutorial in college where the lecturer advised us to use this new up and coming engine called Google for searches. He proceeded to point out it wasn't spelt correctly. I'm old.


  • #39
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    And hamsterdance was an obvious winner from day one.

    Hah, I was scanning the thread to see if that had been brought up. Ah, HamsterDance, the grand-daddy of internet memes.


  • #40
    whomitconcerns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns


    rotten dot com...ca 1997...no neeeeeeeed


  • #41
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Hotmail had a whopping limit of 2mb of emails. You had to delete stuff all the time.

    In 2004 I joined gmail and it had 1000mb


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  • #42
    Cianmcliam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Cianmcliam


    I think hotbot was the search engine most people I knew used back around 1997. Used to carry a 10ft long cable in the laptop bag to connect the 28k modem into phone sockets.
    Just when the internet started to look good, along came WAP on tiny Nokia phone screens, how long did that last, months? A year or two?


  • #43
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,868 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    As there was no decent computer that could handle a modem in the 90's in our house, it was iff the the local megabyte café to do our surfing (remember those?) for £2 for the 1st hour and £1 there after :)

    Is Dole/Kemp 96 still active?


  • #44
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Angelfire web pages! Things haven't changed much in rural Ireland. Just below 1 meg dl and that is a good day. WAP was funny as well.


  • #45
    Stephen P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭Stephen P


    I remember in approx. 1999 myself and a mate in college decided to email Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin' Criminals, we just put his name into the To: box and sent it. We thought it was so cool, we were clueless.


  • #46
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,093 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Stephen P wrote: »
    I remember in approx. 1999 myself and a mate in college decided to email Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin' Criminals, we just put his name into the To: box and sent it. We thought it was so cool, we were clueless.

    Pretty naive alright. Everyone knows you had to add '...of the Fun Lovin' Criminals' to actually reach him.


  • #47
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    The first time I ever saw an erect penis was on the internet in about 1998 I'd say. I remember being excited - not in that way! - because I thought I'd develop a similar weapon in the future. Suffice to say mine still looks like a cocktail sausage sticking out of Shaft's hair.


  • #48
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Was Xena lesbian? I heard that was the case, and a little bit of my heart died.


  • #49
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Microsoft chat hidden in program files. Jaysus there were some f*cked up people on that site!! It had a cool cartoon comic strip feature though.


  • #50
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Welcome to AOL, you've got mail"

    Trailer park trash http://www.mytrailerpark.com


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  • #52
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    UUDECODE to turn those lovely bytes into lovely bits
    ~r to send a mail on UNIX, . and return on VAX
    NCSA Mosaic and wondering where you could go
    inviting random Norwegians to come stay with you and they actually turn up.


  • #53
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    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.

    Us, Earthhorse, it's what she used to call us.


  • #54
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    a/s/l?


  • #55
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,093 ✭✭✭✭briany


    lertsnim wrote: »
    And almost cry when you download a song to find some bollocks mislabelled it for ****s and giggles.

    'Weird' Al Yankovich has said that he wasn't so much bothered by the sales hit that P2P downloads were supposed to have brought about as he was bothered by the proliferation of stuff that was mis-attributed to him via Napster and subsequent networks.


  • #56
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I remember paying €10 per hour in an Internet Cafe around '98.

    It was my first time using Windows.

    Their door was broken. Badum tish.


  • #57
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Everyone hotlinking to the hampsterdance hamster gif from their crappy Geocites page.

    Bert Is Evil
    The "Ate my Balls" website.
    Frog in a blender.

    Rathergood.com came a bit later, I think. But it's still amazing.


  • #58
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Best 1990's memories?

    Having internet so slow that you had to be strategic about choosing when to log on for some porn. That ****ing dial-up racket, ****ing hell.

    Also, it was pot luck. Whatever image loaded you just had to go with it. Too slow to try again!


  • #59
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Roger Dry Memento wrote: »
    Us, Earthhorse, it's what she used to call us.
    She used to call us?


  • #60
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    She used to call us?

    Finally, someone would.


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  • #61
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I remember it taking an hour to download a 1mb porn clip at 2am in the morning and then saving it a hidden folder for future 'use'


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