Current Events > What do you remember about using the internet in the 90s?

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I remember using an early version of AOL, AOL 3.5? I remember going to a Marvel website around 1995/1996 where they had trivia questions. I remember playing Starcraft starting in 1999. But my internet usage really took off in 2000 when we got a new computer and also I had started high school.
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Born in 89. Didn't use the internet until I was like 13.
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Oh
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</piss-poor attempt to type dial-up noises>
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TiamatLover posted...

dshrkhlsBRRRRRnljfhklBRBDINGDINGBRRRRRrrrrrasdfasdfs

</piss-poor attempt to type dial-up noises>

Hah
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We had an old Packard Bell for a while. I would go on Nick.com and play that Jimmy Neutron game with the creamed corn. It ran like absolute shit. I also played Amazon Trail 3rd Edition. That's basically it. Wasn't much to do, really.
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Packard Bell, that's a name I haven't heard in decades.
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Downloading porn videos to watch tomorrow.
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Nothing.

I think it was 01 when we first got Internet service.
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Mostly AOL chatrooms and my online girlfriend. And AOL/Yahoo games like billiards and checkers
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I made a Dragon Ball webpage in 1998, on GeoCities

Ahh... those were the days

Using Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista for searches

lol google
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WEEoo, WEeoO WEoOO, WRSH SH-SH-SH-SH-SH-SH-SH-, BZZT BEEP BEP BEEP BRBRBRBRRBR

alfy's world

any hundreds of flash game aggregates

looking up dragon ball z, finding the hidden dragon balls on the official site

looking up sailor moon naked
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@CableZL
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We got internet through Local Access in early/mid '96 when I was 13.

First it took forever for porn to load. You better be sure which 10-15 second clip you want because it will take 10 minutes to download in 120p.

i remember trading modern basketball cards for 70s football cards and baseball cards on tradingcarddepot.com or something like that and waxpackets.com

i used lycos, alta vista, hotbot, ask jeeves, settled on yahoo until probably 2000 then google since.
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I remember using it once, and only once prior to Y2K, and it was for an art project of some sorts in either K or 1st grade.
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AOL chatrooms and looking up and printing out DBZ art
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Remember GameFAQs.com?
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MIDIs. i had a collection of MIDIs. that was the shit.
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A 28.8 modem was fast
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I had WebTV and an internet girlfriend.
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I remember MIDI versions of Stone Cold and The Rock's themes.
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Not much. Uh....messaging friends....Slingo?

I also remember a friend who got in trouble for plagiarism because he printed a report straight off a webpage and for some reason thought the teacher wouldn't notice.

Really the internet was too slow and therefore boring for someone who was 10, max. Free time was spent on the SNES.
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AOL chat and Neopets
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I guess it was a "newsgroup"(?) I was looking at, trying to get someone to tell me where the Fire/Magic Rod was in Link's Awakening. Got frustrated and cursed when I emailed someone. Somehow my mom found out and sent the guy an apology, saying how we're goodie two shoe Christians and shes shocked I cursed. I was like 10?
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Dial up
Chip's Challenge
Educational games
Ask jeeves
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Mid 1998 when I looked for info on Ocarina and Final Fantasy VII.

For a few years Odyssey of Hyrule and Zelda Power is where I spent most of my time on though.

Also didn't get my own Computer and Internet until 2001 so I always had to use friends or wherever I was at.
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I think I didn't start going to chatrooms until 2000.
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A/s/l
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Carlbertomfg posted...

A/s/l

I remember saying 16/m/ny but there were a lot of people who said 13/f/fl or 13/f/ca for some reason.
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ANT.
chatroom battlers (there was a DBZ one, but i played FFE, or final fantasy extreme)

Punters

lol, static gold.

there was also a way to kick people if they had sound enabled in chatrooms. you put 'con/con' where the filename should've gone.
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50 lbs. high end monitors in 2000.
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Sometimes it took forever to get online with dial-up.
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Ugly websites, everything being a whole lot harder to actually find, and much more pleasant to talk to people
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messanger and gamefaqs :D
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netzero
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Netscape
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TaiIs82 posted...

Not much. Uh....messaging friends....Slingo?

I also remember a friend who got in trouble for plagiarism because he printed a report straight off a webpage and for some reason thought the teacher wouldn't notice.

Really the internet was too slow and therefore boring for someone who was 10, max. Free time was spent on the SNES.

You mean the Genesis
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Most of my internet time back then was playing Diablo. There was also a website, I think CandyStand.com that had some cool games. I can't them any where else now though.
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The eFront saga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFront

Some of my fondest memories of this site are people freaking out about stop n swop on the Banjo Kazooie/Banjo Tooie boards
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I remember running Netscape around '91. I was 6. At first I was afraid to really venture out into the world wide web. Eventually you discovered search engines and stuff. Seemed like the web grew exponentially everyday as far as layout and graphical advancements. Was pretty weird to be sure.
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Having to keep track of the minutes used. Badly made Geocities websites. The birth of (internet) memes.
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008Zulu posted...

Having to keep track of the minutes used.

Wasn't that awful? I remember our family had a plan that provided like two hours a day, and then a penny per minute if you went over that.
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Hoping someone doesn't pick up the phone.
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the dialup noise
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It was slow, bad, utterly horrible
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