Back in the day, everyone used Netscape Navigator as their web browser. In fact, they used to say "I'll see you on Netscape tonight" as "newbies" (that's how it was spelled at the time) thought Netscape was the internet. It took hours to download, and you had to cross your fingers that the connection would hold until it did.
Navigator 9 can still be downloaded here.
CompuServe, Prodigy, EarthLink - 30 million people on America Online "You've Got Mail!"
Modems also made an annoyingly loud screeching noise when starting up, giving you a sensation like nails on a blackboard.
Phil Zimmerman and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Real Networks, QuickTime Video Player, Red Hat, Mandrake Linux which required a degree in Quantum Mechanics in order to install it. Man-pages, RPM "Linux is gonna take over the desktop" right! Keep dreaming fanboys! :)
Four ex-Beatles were still alive. Now we're down to 3, (check, before you challenge that number) Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and who else? That's not Ringo on the drums! :)
Did you use ICQ? ("I Seek You") which was a popular early instant messaging service. I wonder what happened to it?
serious research (porn).I remember signing up for an ISP and the lady said "we have 11,000 newsgroups, do you want us to protect you from adult subject matter?" I'm like: "Don't censor nothin honey, I want it all!"
Skype didn't exist, there was no such thing as "social media." No Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, can you imagine? No Google either. Search was done on Yahoo!, AltaVista or even Dogpile.
Some douchebags were running Apple into the ground because Steve (do I even have to use the last name?) was exiled in NEXTwhere at the time. Bill Gates and his giant pumpkin-head looming over our "iCEO" onscreen during a Stevenote. The iMac, which changed everything and made computers cool again.
There was no iPod or smartphones, and a company called Diamond Multimedia sold these crappy little Rio mp3 players that only held a few songs.
My first computer came with Windoze 98 SE and I paid an extra hundred bucks for a "fast" 56k modem, a massive 4 Gigabyte hard drive, (You're never gonna fill that up!) and a little port called USB which I was roundly ridiculed for as being a complete waste of money...
What are your memories from the early days of the internet?
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