The old internet

Internet was fine, great craic and all..... then cancer media came along and turned a ton of people into idiots and braindead fools!

Thanks Facebook and Twitter you failed us yet again!

R.I.P Pedobear

I remember Ireland on line - using mozilla browser (before firefox) off a floppy disk.
Only sites of any interest were Nasa and star trek and news groups.
Altavista was the search engine...

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

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

A brave New world of unlimited possiblities, ruined by narcissistic arseholes and corporate creed.

What the hell were you planning to do on it?

Buffering mid **** it was a ****ing nightmare.

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

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

I found out later in the dial up period that you can actually turn off this noise and it still connects fine.

Only found out about a year before getting broadband.

All those years of waking up the house to connect.

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Obtain nudey pics.

I'll PM you. Don't be laughing at my mole.

I remember a late late show programme that featured people sellling .ie websites for for small fortunes

Boom_Bap wrote: »

a/s/l?

Patron of the 'VIP' at the turn of the century ?

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!

I really miss the WAP internet. Sure, it was full of trash, and cost me 99 cent a day back in 2006, but it was my real (and overdue) introduction to the internet. I remember reading random conspiracy theories and downloading free games on a little flip phone back then, and it kept me entertained for days on end. I suppose what I really miss is the fun of it when it was all I had.

I remember recommending Muse - Muscle Museum to some Yanks on Napster, and they loving it.
I remember talking to a cousin in Canada that I hadn't talked to or seen in 10 years on ICQ.
I remember downloading the first X-Men movie overnight on a 56k connection, 756mb of a bad cam quality video, my first ever proper pirate download of a movie on the net, on LIMEWIRE!!!!!! And I didn't die of internet aids.
I remember blue waffle and leekspin (and Meatspin, Jeeeesus!), WHAT THE ACTUAL F00000K!
I remember playing Counter Strike for the first time and being seriously pwnd.
I remember being on a forum that was moderated but didn't really give a **** about what you said, great community tbh and n00bs were pwnt for being n00bs, wild wild west of forums at the time.
I remember Altavista.
I remember Geocities.
I remember Myspace.
I remember the pure joy of being told by Eircon that I could upgrade to 512k superfast broadband.
I remember the first time I Skyped with a mate I hadn't seen or heard from in years who now lives in Manchester and we started playing poker online, then brought his cousin on board and we stayed up for hours every Saturday night (and some Friday nights and Sunday afternoons!) sending fail videos and calling it Skype Club, and first rule of Skype Club is you don't invite outsiders because we are now comfortable with this little group on a Saturday night. Still going strong today, many many years later it has brought us together every Saturday (Friday nights and Sunday afternoons too!) and we watch all the sporting events in the safety of our homes. Best virtual pub ever!

So many many good times.