I was just about to post this. You can all go to the Wayback Machine and miss your Netscape and Geocities no more.
I miss not having advertisements floating over my web pages and chasing the close button, or worse, just trying to locate the close button. As an aside, what is the oldest post you can find of yours on the net? Doing a quick search on Google, I found one of mine from July 1996.
Anyone here used to order a billion AOL 3.0 disks or grab a bunch from circuit city and use them for storage? 1.44 MB ftw.....Good times
Spince Channel! Yeah that's what it was called. They had music during the day and switched to real sound after 9pm and the video would get a bit less fuzzy. Man I would sit there and watch whole scenes that were like 30 mins long with only 5 minutes of real action. Thank God for streaming! Before streaming pr0n came about, I remember we could download short clips or bits and pieces of a pr0n vid. They were like 10 seconds each or 20-30 if you're really lucky. I think this was in the early 2000's. Before that was still pictures, IIRC.
*nerd flex* I was running a FIDONet BBS and serving up Usenet newsgroups on an Apple //e before there was a World Wide Web. *nerd flex*
lol. Archie was one of the first searches/things I used on the Internet. NCSA Mosaic was the first browser I used, and my first WWW provider was Hudson Trinity, Inc. *sniffle* BTW, BBS's were serving up the Internet before the World Wide Web was around, so technically they weren't "pre-Internet", but I get what you're saying.
