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The old internet

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  • #62
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist




  • #63
    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Yahoo chat.
    'Doras' irelands answer to yahoo.
    Eircom advertising internet on the internet.
    Geocities
    Using Napster for the first time (Ms Jackson -Outkast) its mine now Forever!


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    The old internet:

    Wanna put up a website but don't want to pay any money? : Use GeoCities. (boardsies under 30 won't have a clue what I'm talking about but google it)

    Email: No gmail. Use hotmail - still a respectable independant (of microsoft who took it over) entity.

    Want an email program on your computer: Use pegasus. Free and quite respectable, yes really. If you have Microsoft Office, ofcourse you can configure Microsoft Outlook. This could be wired up with an eir or tinet account as it was then known.

    Netscape is the browser that ALL RESPECTABLE wierdos / geeks / space cadets use btw.


  • #65
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    angelfire. Those sites usually consisted of a coloured background and text in a clashing colour that were really hard to read and made your eyes go funny.


  • #66
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    The Old Internet :

    Back in the 90's I was involved with a pirate radio station in Dublin that was one of the first online broadcasters. We only had one phone line into the 'studio' (garden shed) and we had to announce that no requests were to be phoned in while we attempted to connect to the internet. It was a dial up connection and we only operated on the web at specific times as we could not afford the cost of having a full time web connection. It was fun to go on line and wait to see if any emails came in from far flung parts.

    I was amazed to find out that the sellotape and string system we used actually worked when I went on holidays to Canada and could listen in to our garden shed station.

    Simple and fun times.


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  • #67
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    I remember listening to 2fm back in the late 90s. The DJ would put out a shout to someone like joe listening to us on the internet. I thought listening to radio and music over the internet would never take off. So here I am, Spotify plugged into my hifi with instant access to a vast library of recorded music..


  • #68
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Here's a clip of Pete Tong on the radio in 1995, giving the internet address of the show on the BBC website. :D

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


    http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/radio1/p/tong/index.html or maybe http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/radio1/p-tong/index.html (He didn't say 'forward slash' for one of the slashes.)


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Zombocom


  • #70
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    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!

    Don't forget the pixilated pictures and short stories on phone erotica. Or so I was told.

    :)


  • #71
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    It took about 2 hours to finish a **** because of the length of time it took for a pornographic image to load.


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    Preplanned **** so you could download whatever you were into.

    It really was just so different back then. The entire thing was a jungle, and I'm glad I was part of it.


  • #73
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    branie2 wrote: »
    Some websites took a long time to load
    Oh the joy when a site used Interlaced gifs.


  • #74
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    It took about 2 hours to finish a **** because of the length of time it took for a pornographic image to load.

    You can finish in a few seconds now. Ah technology. :pac:


  • #75
    Cushtie
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    Paddynet. first introduction to Chat rooms. Think it was sometime back around 98. On a netscape navigator browser. It was on a work PC and all. Before content filtering came in of course.


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    "... all lowercase letters"


  • #77
    supersaint3
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭supersaint3


    ICQ anyone??!


  • #78
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users Posts: 6,657 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    James Date? If im not wrong, some early version of internet dating...haven't a clue how it worked again but the name sticks out. I think about 2001 or so.


  • #79
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Here's a clip of Pete Tong on the radio in 1995, giving the internet address of the show on the BBC website. :D

    http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/radio1/p/tong/index.html or maybe http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/radio1/p-tong/index.html (He didn't say 'forward slash' for one of the slashes.)


    Yep, I remember reading out our web address like that. It was just for the few at the time who knew how to use it, and here in Ireland, for the very few that had the connection ability. It actually reminded me of operating on short wave, sending the signal out and hoping that someone was on the receiving end, somewhere in the world.

    It's a far cry from today's app availability where everything is already done for you and instant networking is guaranteed.


  • #80
    normanoffside
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭normanoffside


    http://www.mulletsgalore.com/


  • #81
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Somethingawful was good fun.


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  • #82
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    sligozone :eek:


  • #83
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Were there virus threats back then?


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭[Deleted User]


    branie2 wrote: »
    Were there virus threats back then?

    Yeah, and they were brutal in that they were designed solely for damage, not money.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

    The outbreak was later estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide,[6][7] and estimated to cost US$15 billion to remove the worm.[8]


  • #85
    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    sligozone :eek:

    Had completely forgotten about that....what was she ? A parody?


  • #86
    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Websites that had guestbooks.


  • #87
    xi5yvm0owc1s2b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭xi5yvm0owc1s2b


    Jennicam.


  • #88
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    hit counters on a page


  • #89
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Obtain nudey pics.

    alt.binaries anyone?

    Seriously though, I miss usenet.
    Boards.ie would be all the better for it.


  • #90
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    When sky news broadcast their Web address.

    Haitch tee tee pee...


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  • #91
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users Posts: 12,063 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Alta Vista introduced you to all the internet had to offer. :D

    Online since 1999. Social media and smart phones made it less tolerable, but it had to happen, I suppose. The days when you had to be computer literate to access the internet, were great days indeed.


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