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Anyone remember WebTV? That's probably my earliest memory. Those chatrooms were .


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Looking at tiddy

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Rating chicks on Hot or Not with Netscape Navigator.

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BloodMoon7 posted...

Looking at tiddy

Lol, I remember when I first discovered Internet porn. I was like WTF, that's on here too? From there a whole new world opened up to me.

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Having an AOL Kids account haha.

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Hmm... I think it was like... Limewire? I used to download DBZ AMVs off there circa 1999-2000.

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Trying to find porn when I was 8

Runescape and Diablo

The YTV website

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mattymad posted...

I used to come on here back in like 96/97 and print off guides because we only had like 26.6k dialup that cost per minute and tied the phone up.

Should have downloaded it instead but I was like 6 years old and didn't get how that worked.

I used to print guides too, lol. I went to the library to do it though since I didn't have a printer at home. It was 10 cents a page.

HagenEx posted...

Hmm... I think it was like... Limewire? I used to download DBZ AMVs off there circa 1999-2000.

Linkin Park DBZ AMVs videos were the shit, couldn't get enough of them.

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Flunking out of college while playing some MUD all day.

Evening_Dragon posted...

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Netscape Navigator (my fellow 90s brethren will remember this)

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I don't know which is the earliest. My uncle used to do website designs for local businesses so I remember a lot of his work (he was also a fan of embedding MIDI versions of older songs on the sites lol).

Remember my brother using outlook express on windows 95 and we had a color printer and printed out Space Ghost characters for fun

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smoke_break posted...

I used to print guides too, lol. I went to the library to do it though since I didn't have a printer at home. It was 10 cents a page.

Linkin Park DBZ AMVs videos were the shit, couldn't get enough of them.

Exactly all of this haha.

Garamond font, 4 columns FTW!

And yes, it was mostly DBZ x LP AMVs back in the day. I remember some of them had footage from the movies instead of the regular anime. My mind was blown sometimes. Good fucking times.

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Probably around 1996, searching for Sonic stuff and finding some old school fan made site with a gallery full of fan art.

Trying to play windows 98 chess online

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Going into a chat room for the first time, and then freaking out when somebody responded. It's wild to think i reacted that way in the world today.

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I used to go to the library everyday after school and print out guides from GameFAQs. One time I got in trouble for looking at sexy pictures of video game girls (namely Aya Brea from Parasite Eve). Then we got AOL dialup and I remember it took like 30 minutes to download one song. I also used to create crappy GeoCities websites.

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Playing Utopia

You were in a guild and you all provided for it. You could train troops, make money, ect. I honestly don't remember too much about it, I only played it in 99 or 00

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Going to library and getting on computers around 1999. I vividly remember looking up Donkey Kong 64 previews. It's probably when I was introduced to IGN and Gamespot. Also this site

https://themushroomkingdom.net/

Playing Runescape in 2001 and looking back at 2021 and being like DAMN, people still play this shit?!

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Having an AOL Kids account haha.

lol. i was going to mention something off of ANT. i think it was playing final fantasy extreme (chatroom battler) with an old friend of mine. red if you ever see this you're still a legend.

i remember AOL had a bug where if you trying to use the chatroom sounds and you put con/con into the file path it would cause people to bluescreen.

actually, time for a quick shoutout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxtYFoU2jGY

the dan mentioned in one of the song titles was a friend of mine. the song is called 'tales from the rejectopsy' because his band was called dissectopsy. he had been trying to pass off a circle of dead children song as being from his band. i remember, because he shared it with me and the song data told me everything.

zombie sneak attack is a relic of old internet metal forums. i think they formed out of a bunch of board members collaborating.
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I remember when we first got dial up, the very first thing I asked my dad to search for me was a picture of Godzilla. It seemed pretty crazy at the time when it actually worked.

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Cheater87 posted...

Having an AOL Kids account haha.

This.

and trying desperately to get into one of those 30 limit Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network chats. Which, hindsight today, knowing I possibly talked to pedophiles posing as children is very creepy.

I was only 10-12 years old and had no idea what I was doing.

My father started his career as a programmer so I had my own computer before it was even all that common for people to have a household computer they shared with the family. I know that I was online a couple of years before this, but the earliest thing I can remember at the moment is using hacks to win a tournament in the "legit" guild I was in on Diablo 1, so that would have been mid 97ish. My warrior threw so many fireballs.

Second thing that stands out is the release of Ultima Online. My first trip outside of town was to spend a whole afternoon finding a mine and then gathering ore and things to sell...and on the way back I came across a guy who had spent his time learning magic and then parking at a bridge to kill people as they come across it loaded down with shit to sell in town. Not that I'm still bitter about that piece of shit or anything. That would have been a little later in 97.

Who else shares the life experience of packing pillows all around your tower to try to keep the horrendous connecting to the internet noises from waking your parents up in the middle of the night when you were supposed to be sleeping?

Bad_Mojo posted...

Playing Utopia

You were in a guild and you all provided for it. You could train troops, make money, ect. I honestly don't remember too much about it, I only played it in 99 or 00

nice. I was going to make a similar post about a game called Archmage.

i still can't believe these kinds of games haven't had a resurgence as phone apps, instead of the ones where you can never win or lose.

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Who else shares the life experience of packing pillows all around your tower to try to keep the horrendous connecting to the internet noises from waking your parents up in the middle of the night when you were supposed to be sleeping?

i guess you could actually mute that. i was a foregone conclusion; i had always been terrible at sleeping at night. the worst thing to me was people using the stupid phone. i was doing important things on ANT.
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Using Pine email to send notes to my boyfriend (now husband) on the university system (early 90s). I also remember Netscape Navigator, Dogpile, and Lycos, along with AskJeeves, but those were a bit later in the mid-90s. There were a few others, but I don't remember their names.

Also listserves, but I think those still exist (??).

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Clickamajigs on Nick.com

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Watching my uncle play Habitat in 1987.

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Telnet or some similar text only thing where the computers in my elementary school could connect to a local college. I remember thinking it was too complicated and I wanted nothing to do with this "internet." (This was early 90s)
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Compuserve 1991/92

friend's dad had it setup at home. no DNS. i think you needed IPs to get to pages/rooms

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Using Juno webmail and being amused at its Y2K bug (emails after 2000 were displaying the year as 19100 for awhile)

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Probably trying (and more often than not failing) to access PlayOnline.com due to the infamous Final Fantasy 9 player's guide.

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Clicking on a nude and watching the pic load line by line
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My Dad was teaching computer science so we had dial up like around '94. We had Red Hat Linux first. Graalonline was my first real internet game though.

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Bump. I enjoy reading everyone's stories, they spark a lot of good memories from the earlier Internet days.

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smoke_break posted...

Anyone remember WebTV? That's probably my earliest memory. Those chatrooms were .

Dated a girl who had webTV.

On topic I remember thinking that Webcrawler was the most amazing thing - I would just put random words in the search bar and see what comes up.

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Sariana21 posted...

Using Pine email to send notes to my boyfriend (now husband) on the university system (early 90s). I also remember Netscape Navigator, Dogpile, and Lycos, along with AskJeeves, but those were a bit later in the mid-90s. There were a few others, but I don't remember their names.

Also listserves, but I think those still exist (??).

I was really into listserves and usenet. Fun times were had.

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playing a Flintstones bowling game

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Watching a 45 second clip of a Rugrats episode. It took an hour to download, and I had seen the episode countless times, and it was the worst quality imaginable, but it was on the INTERNET, and it was incredible!

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Being introduced to computers in school at a very young age and being taught what the internet was. I remember the teacher saying something to the effect of "There's a website for everything. Anything you can think of, will have a website."

And my innocent little brain the first thing I thought of was "So you mean to tell me I could go to frog.com and it would be there."

Now, actually visiting the site 20 some years later...



Omg, it was a meme the whole time.

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AOL

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Making an AOL email account on our Gateway that came in a cow box.

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The first website I ever visited was the Lost World website. This was before the Jurassic Park sequel was released and it was incredible just to see pre-production photos online.

I also remember playing games on the South Park website.

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Searching for ps1 cheats on a library computer

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Wii_Shaker posted...

South Park website.

they had a widget of Cartman you could download and it would play clips of his

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