What old Internet things do you miss?

[Jon]

I was thinking about this the other day as the 'Internet' just seems to basically be social media and websites these days.

I miss the days of using my modem to dial BBS's!

I miss paying £10 a month for dial up Internet access instead of however much I pay now!!

I miss the days of IRC

I miss the days of using WinAmp and Shoutcast

I miss only having 5MB of webspace to create websites in!

I miss the days of before bloody social media when your Google ranking was everything.

I don't miss Geocities websites and sodding Guestbooks


Enjoy

 

[mabozza]

LOL... i miss the very early days when it was amazing that i could hear rock radio stations in America (sounding like it was strained thru a string between 2 cans)... I miss the thrill of going to sleep leaving the puter on and knowing when i woke i would be within hours of having a full album downloaded... ICQ....

 

[Jon]

LOL... i miss the very early days when it was amazing that i could hear rock radio stations in America (sounding like it was strained thru a string between 2 cans)... I miss the thrill of going to sleep leaving the puter on and knowing when i woke i would be within hours of having a full album downloaded... ICQ....

Man.. ICQ..... EH OH!!!


Yeah streaming radio stations via RealPlayer was painfull!

 

[JesseEverAfter]

I used to be with AOL so miss the "welcome to AOL" message whenever you logged in but don't miss the painstakingly slow dial up connections- 56kbps - 40 seconds to load a web page...

Strangely though I do miss the sounds the modem made as it connected and playing the small casual flash games. They all seem much more professional nowadays, maybe even lost a bit of their charm.

I don't miss Google being pretty much the only way to get website traffic - too much like all eggs one basket for my liking and having them all in a Google basket never seems like a good idea!

I miss the days of simple websites where you really could code a website from scratch which may not have looked great but still looked comparable to what is already out there. The one downside of having lots of great open source software is that everything starts to look somewhat similar which is a shame.

 

[Jon]

I used to be with AOL so miss the "welcome to AOL" message whenever you logged in but don't miss the painstakingly slow dial up connections- 56kbps - 40 seconds to load a web page...

Strangely though I do miss the sounds the modem made as it connected and playing the small casual flash games. They all seem much more professional nowadays, maybe even lost a bit of their charm.

I don't miss Google being pretty much the only way to get website traffic - too much like all eggs one basket for my liking and having them all in a Google basket never seems like a good idea!

I miss the days of simple websites where you really could code a website from scratch which may not have looked great but still looked comparable to what is already out there. The one downside of having lots of great open source software is that everything starts to look somewhat similar which is a shame.

I still remember going into THE LINK which were owned by Dixons and spending £200 on a bloody US Robotics 14.4k modem!!

Traffic wise I remember the days of yahoo dominating, lycos, Altavista, yell (before it appeared in its current form) - Enjoy https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2460617/7-forgotten-search-engines-where-are-they-now

I used to learn to create websites in Dreamwaver Pro.. Man that was a task and a half!

 

[JesseEverAfter]

I still remember going into THE LINK which were owned by Dixons and spending £200 on a bloody US Robotics 14.4k modem!!

Traffic wise I remember the days of yahoo dominating, lycos, Altavista, yell (before it appeared in its current form) - Enjoy https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2460617/7-forgotten-search-engines-where-are-they-now

I used to learn to create websites in Dreamwaver Pro.. Man that was a task and a half!

I never really got on with Dreamweaver - always felt like it got more in the way than helped with anything - I was really old school for years - notepad!

Ooh! I remember Lycos - it's where I learnt initially about PHP and where my first websites were hosted (on the free Lycos Tripod). Funnily enough I very rarely used them as a search engine hehe I moved onto there full hosting after that - man hosting has got a lot cheaper since then (I used to pay just short of £100 a year with them).

Thanks for the link though - I'm intrigued!

And 14.4k sounds painful - eek!

 

[Jon]

I never really got on with Dreamweaver - always felt like it got more in the way than helped with anything - I was really old school for years - notepad!

Ooh! I remember Lycos - it's where I learnt initially about PHP and where my first websites were hosted (on the free Lycos Tripod). Funnily enough I very rarely used them as a search engine hehe I moved onto there full hosting after that - man hosting has got a lot cheaper since then (I used to pay just short of £100 a year with them).

Thanks for the link though - I'm intrigued!

And 14.4k sounds painful - eek!

hosting is honestly CHUMP CHANGE now! Look at that hostpresto offer to the right. Multiple sites, backups, free domain £25!!!! We used to charge through the nose for 5mb of webspace let alone the domain which we would buy direct from Nominet when I used to work for an ISP

Outside of dreamweaver, I remember using Frontpage98 which was basically MS Word for websites!

 

[The Reverend]

I miss the days idiots weren't on the internet.

When they made it easy to access, idiots flooded the place and pretty much ruined it for everyone.

 

[mabozza]

I miss the days idiots weren't on the internet.

When they made it easy to access, idiots flooded the place and pretty much ruined it for everyone.

 

[homie]

I miss:
myspace
Ask Jeeves
Shouting "Mum get off the phone, Im on the internet"
Youtube before it was full of adverts
ebay before it was full of tat from China


The internet has changed a lot in 20 years

Will you comment in my guestbook?

 

[Jon]

I miss:
myspace
Ask Jeeves
Shouting "Mum get off the phone, Im on the internet"
Youtube before it was full of adverts
ebay before it was full of tat from China


The internet has changed a lot in 20 years

Will you comment in my guestbook?

Man Ask Jeeves was EVERYWHERE. Much in the same way Friends Reunited was before Facebook came along and galvanised 70% of the Internet lol

 

[disneygirl]

I LOVED the internet in 1997, I spent so much time on Yahoo Groups, joined groups for all my favourite bands. I was only allowed to go on for 30 minutes a day after 6pm as that was when it was cheapest.

 

[Jon]

I LOVED the internet in 1997, I spent so much time on Yahoo Groups, joined groups for all my favourite bands. I was only allowed to go on for 30 minutes a day after 6pm as that was when it was cheapest.

haha oh god yeah the after 6pm thing. Put my ISP in my friends and family

I got DESTROYED by my parents once as I ran up a phone bill of around £200!!!!

 

[katykicker]

I miss the sound of the dial up!

 

[ted]

MSN Messenger.

I maintain a couple of friendships with people from abroad who I'd swapped MSN addresses with and kept in contact from 2002 or so. Social media made it all a lot easier.

 

[The Reverend]

Just Call Me Clint!

The trouble, for me, is that easy internet access made stupid people be stupid to a wider audience.

Remember when Twitter was 140 characters and you updated it via text message?
Remember when mobile internet was called 'WAP' and companies has seperate WAP sites? (and strangely National Rail was the only one that was any good!)
Remember when text messages were stored individually rather than as a conversations?
Remember when some people's computers WEREN'T connected to the Internet?
Remember when the BBC made loads of great programs which were 1h long?
Remember when computer games were tested thoroughly because you couldn't offer a patch to fix them?
Remember when people optimised websites to reduce the size of web-pages and improve the loading times?

Its a long list that keeps on growing!

 

[JesseEverAfter]

Ooh! I've just remembered a good thing about dial up - it kept the phone line clogged up getting rid of all the sales calls - we didn't realise by quite how much till we switched to Broadband and they all came back again!

 

[Jon]

Ooh! I've just remembered a good thing about dial-up - it kept the phone line clogged up getting rid of all the sales calls - we didn't realise by quite how much till we switched to Broadband and they all came back again!

My parents didn't see the positive in this...

 

[disneygirl]

My Dad used to hide the ethernet cable!

 

[Jon]

My Dad used to hide the ethernet cable!

I used to run an entire telephone extension cable up the stairs!!