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The old internet

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,440 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I remember spending lots of time chatting in the “Virtual Irish Pub” when working nights mid 90’s




  • Their was a time before Google and Facebook. I have a faint recollection of it, irc, msn messenger and rotten.com were some of the highlights if memory serves me right.
    It was the dominan of nerds and weirdos.

    You forgot Usenet. Alt.barney.die.die.die and alt.tasteless!

    Actually a really good trip down memory lane of how the internet used to be is a book by JC Herz. A woman who used to write for playboy if I recall correctly.

    The book I think is just called Surfing the Internet. But I think when I read it it had a different name and was just changed in later publications. I am sure when I read it it had "information superhighway" in the title.

    Anyway it is about her internet addiction which she eventually overcame. Back in the days of early IRC - usenet - and even bulletin boards.

    Anyone who wants to know what the net was really like in the early days - I think that's the book to get.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,907 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    _Brian wrote: »
    I remember spending lots of time chatting in the “Virtual Irish Pub” when working nights mid 90’s

    A/s/l


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Good contribution :)

    Says the fella who loves ladyboys.


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    This sound was so exciting. The anticipation! :D



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Your Face wrote: »
    Says the fella who loves ladyboys.

    That's news to me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,795 ✭✭✭✭Discodog




  • Registered Users Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    KDX and hotline


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Geocities websites by amateurs, full of ghastly backgrounds and .gifs !


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,460 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Geocities

    I'll see your Geocities and raise you a Xoom.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    Using Netscape Navigator in a constantly crashing windows 3.1 on a Pentium 75 machine!


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,783 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Was there a thing on your phone called WAP, or am I dreaming? Think it was a very low level internet connection which showed Lotto and Horoscopes but took ages to load and used a lot of credit!

    WAP - Wireless Access Protocol

    Many’s a morning I spent in the toilets in work watching the champions league draw taking place over WAP on my Nokia!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    a/s/l?

    18/f/Cali


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    netscape-navigator-2-0.png


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    oh the pain of using old browsers.

    No tabs. And no going back to the previous page.

    Either lots of bookmarks or you had to cut and paste into notepad a lot.


    But on the plus side ads were just text or pictures on the page. No sound , no video, no popups, it was just like newspaper ads. But that changed too.


    I've had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid
    And yes it's true. With so much going on in the background today's computers and operating systems are SLOWER to respond than in the past.

    And that's before you factor in how many ads there are now. Thanks to the GDPR some people are forced to use the text only version of some US sites. And are gobsmacked by how fast they respond without all the tracking crud.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,348 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Ahhhh the old internet

    When water was free and you had to pay for porn.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Lycos


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Yahoo started off as a directory as well as a search engine


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Chat rooms


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    And the ear crunching dial up. Then the relations rang and knocked you offline.

    Your relations couldn't get through because the line was engaged.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 80,795 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    The old internet, when men were men and 'women' were usually men, lol.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    I remember when the internet wasn't long out. We had a book with about 100 different available websites that you could type in the address and browse through them. Very exciting times and I don't think there was any search engines back then, maybe I'm wrong.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Lycos, Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves

    Slower speeds after 1pm because the United States were coming online.

    Pop Mail. UCD used it.

    Dial-up modem with the high pierced shrill.

    Pages turning slowly.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    EsatClear Surf No Limits.

    And maybe just me, but I had gathered an abundance of CD coasters from ISP's.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,430 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    giphy.gif


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Some websites took a long time to load


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Hey, I need to use the phone, get off the internet


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Remember logging for an hour after 6, and once a day at weekends, when those times were cheaper?


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,594 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Use net.

    2400 baud.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    No Wikipedia or Facebook


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