Current Events > Remember the beginning of the internet back in 1997 and 1998?

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Remember when Bill Gates took over for Microsoft back in 1997 and he got ganged up on by Congress?

Remember Ebay, Amazon and Yahoo were the holy trinity of websites?

Netscape was the top dog for internet browser before Microsoft Explorer

Windows 95 was a big deal

I didnt know how to find video game stuff so I had to ask jeeves
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Jeeves wasnt around back then.

Yahoo was the next best thing for a search engine and email

I remember using Netscape in like, 1994

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I remember waiting hours for songs to download on Napster. Then there would be times when a phone call came through and killed everything. Stupid dial up.
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98-2004 were prime internet years
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I remember using AOL in like 95 or 96.
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i first used the internet around 1996-1997, so i've seen the evolution

the concept of youtube blew my mind having known a time when short video clips took hours to download

Remember when Bill Gates took over for Microsoft back in 1997 and he got ganged up on by Congress?

that antitrust suit pertaining to ie and windows explorer being integrated into the same program was truly frivolous
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WizardofHoth posted...

Jeeves wasnt around back then.

Ask Jeeves launched in beta in mid-April 1997 and fully launched on June 1, 1997
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LethalAffinity posted...

98-2004 were prime internet years

the early waves of web 2.0 era websites were ridiculously insecure, it was truly a wild west in itself
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Started myself in like 1998.

I remember using AltaVista for searches most of the time.

I use to think each search engines had their own sites you can only see.

My first journey was looking up Zelda 64 stuff and spent time on Zelda Power and Odyssey of Hyrule.

Didn't spend much time here on GameFAQs until I made a account to post with.

Hell I remember when the site had a gray and reddish pink color.


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Back when MMORPGs were good, yeah

Yep Gamefaqs was around back then.

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I remember back when you could URL hack your way into secure portions of sites easily if they werent one of the big ones.


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1998, 1999 usernet groups were really a big deal long before todays fan sites with tons of messageboards.

I remember going to one user.net group that was all about Star Wars.

I remember our shock when we got our first phone bill after playing the original Neverwinter Nights in '95 or so. We had unlimited local calls, so figured the local number we dialed into to get online was free.

Narrator: It wasn't.
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We got aol first time around 92. It was too expensive. Long distance pay by the minute.

We got dial up from a local service full time in 97. I had a middle school football gamr that night. My dad surprised me and my mom with a new computer and internet when we got home.

Thing i remember most was the service splash page. It had links to like a dozen search engines like

Excite
Lycos
Alta Vista
Yahoo
Hotbot
Magellan

Searching them all with the same term could bring back wildly different answers.

I remember how awesome ICQ was for chatting with people around the world. Really cool.

My first real online game was Tanarus. Sony made it and it was an awesome tank game where you fought on big maps with 4 teams.

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"Goes to Zelda.com"

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i had ICQ messenger back then in late 1998 and all of 1999. Good times

ICQ was legit. It was easy to find new people to chat with and wasn't and controlled as AIM.

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My parents would buy these educational games and I freakin loved them

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