Things You Miss From The Original Internet...

Great one. Progz n punters were like a lifestyle for a certain group of people. The absolute worst kind of people. But still... Y'all also miss Xanga because y'all are nerds.

 

_____ ate my balls!

Major domains with the "Under Construction" graphic that would linger for months.

MIDI tracks on autoplay.

XXX password sites.

usa.net email (aka NETADDRESS)

Metacrawler

 

Haha awesome! I'm going to add being able to go into a chat room to hook up with random college girl. Also that feeling you got from Napster, "you mean I can get this song for free and its only going to take an hour!" Also AOL profiles was the bomb for finding the single ladies.

 

webrings!

guestbooks!

 

What exactly is the "original Internet"? I'm seeing stuff like AIM and AOL? I remember when people were saying AOL killed the Internet.

I post this link every couple of years on here, but here's a 20 year history of "first posts on Usenet" that Google has. Some very interesting posts on there. It's one of my favorite links on the Internet :

20 Year Usenet Timeline

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

 

I'm gonna go even further back to my first awesome internet memory.

YAK!!!

 

I met my first girlfriend from there. *sniff*

 

I got banned from Napster because of the Dr. Dre thing and I thought my life was over. No more free music.

Then I found AudioGalaxy :grin:

Then AudioGalaxy died.

 

YAK!!! FTW!! They used to have this great music trivia game, kind of like NTN. I would be there for hours kickin ass and taking names :grin:

 

That trivia was awesome! I remember when they had Yak terminals at Astroworld. Good times.

 

I still use the original Winamp skin.

 

Subspace

Still alive to this day and now called Continuum.

 

mIRC.

 

When we could still email .EXE's

BlueMountainArts.com (greeting "e-cards")

Odd Todd

Some language and images are NSFW:

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Try IRC, but on an orange and black dumb terminal from college... :grin: people from around the world kept saying: "Hey, open another window, too--"... "another WHAT? "

 

I still have my original 6 digit icq number. 2xxxxx

 

In the U of H dorms, the pop ups on the Geocities pages would kill the browser on the old pre-iMac Apples.

 

Do not miss frames as a site enhancement.

Do shed a tear for Fametracker forums and regular updates, and for what TV Guide did to Jump the Shark.

I miss the genuine sense of excitement going on to chatrooms, now I would just feel like a creepy dork.

 

The old internet is still out there:

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

 

1012 hour free AOL trial cd's.