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Things You Miss From The Original Internet...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Rockets R' Us, Jan 5, 2011.

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  1. Rockets R' Us

    Rockets R' Us Contributing Member

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    Was reminiscing the other day about what the internet was before the dot com millionaires and open source social media tycoons took over.

    Remember those really ****ty, prehistoric looking "home pages" with the drab colors and boxed formats. What about the geocities personalized home pages? The message boards of course (like this beautiful one that survived and thrived and evolved)....the early internet nba rumor sites, the early AIM/AOL chat rooms...the easy access to various versions of "The Hackers Cookbook" and other nefarious tools to exploit people via their IP addresses.....

    Reminisce.

    <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FiOcVWQY2bc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FiOcVWQY2bc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
     
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  2. tmoney1101

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    AOL on a

    [​IMG]
     
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  3. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Excite.com
     
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  4. JeopardE

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    Excite.com still looks just like it did back in 1999. Tragic.
     
    #4 JeopardE, Jan 5, 2011
  5. MadMax

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    you get rep from me just for including that song in your thread.
     
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  6. dmc89

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    -The sound of my modem dialing and finally connecting.
    -Usenets/chat rooms with intelligent discussions
    -AIM, MSN, ICQ
    -EverQuest
    -AltaVista, Ask Jeeves
    -Original Napster, Kazaa
     
    #6 dmc89, Jan 5, 2011
  7. SwoLy-D

    SwoLy-D Member

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    [​IMG]

    Original Winamp

    playball.avi

    home.netscape.com's page

    Yahoo!'s "Directory" search (categories) and main page with "What's Cool" buttons. :eek:
     
    #7 SwoLy-D, Jan 5, 2011
  8. BetterThanI

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    Things I miss:
    EFnet (yeah, I know it's still around, but it's not the same...)

    Things I don't miss:
    VAX servers
    LYNX
    Mosaic
    Netscape

    This sound...
    <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gsNaR6FRuO0?fs=1&showinfo=0;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gsNaR6FRuO0?fs=1&showinfo=0;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
     
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  9. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    free usenet servers
     
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  10. CrazyDave

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    BBs, like Oceania (ok, that was just phone line direct modem-ing, but...)

    How about U.S. Videotel
     
    #10 CrazyDave, Jan 5, 2011
  11. Prince

    Prince Member

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    passwordhq
     
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  12. droxford

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    the FTP search engine
     
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    'houston' chat room aol 2am
     
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  14. thelasik

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    AIM punters.
     
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    Off the top of my head..

    -Infoseek (better than Google, yeah I said it)
    -Heat.net/MPlayer
    -RocketMail
    -Geocities pages
     
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    whitehouse.com
     
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  17. SwoLy-D

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    Fox 26 one time back in the 90's sent peeps to that site... *pr0n, right?*... and immediately changed it to .gov upon their return from commercial break... hilarious stuff... I think we talked about it for hours at work the next day. :mad:
     
    #17 SwoLy-D, Jan 5, 2011
  18. thadeus

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    No ads!
     
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  19. da_juice

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    AOL keywords,
     
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  20. vaioavan63

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    Masturbating to pictures circa 1998.
    Saving those pictures to a floppy disk.
    Snap.com chat rooms
    Hearing it from my parents every time they had to use the house phone.
     
    #20 vaioavan63, Jan 5, 2011
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