It may feel like you hopped on the internet just yesterday. But it's been a long, strange trip over many years.
That trip has provided some crazy memories. And here are a few things that only internet veterans even remember!
1
The under construction banner and construction worker digging gifs! -u/mystik213
2
Alta Vista -u/CassandraCubed
3
Winamp skins -u/tossaway69420lol
4
Weird little squares with blue and red on them that would sort of take the place of graphics until the graphics would actually load. The text would be visible but the graphics wouldn't be there yet. -u/hellogriff
5
When a TV show would say to check out their website at "h t t p : / / w w w ." Having to spell it out every time. -u/BigBoyTetranadon
6
When it was called the 'information superhighway' -u/attictapes
7
AOL sending discs through the mail offering 500 hours of free web access -u/Keithninety
8
ICQUh oh (in a high pitched tone). -u/DictionaryStomach
9
FTP, Gopher, Mosaic, running download jobs overnight hoping that the multikilobyte download from overseas running at 100 bytes/seconds didn't crash. -u/magick_68
10
Making webpages using simple html -u/HeyHx2
11
Using offline mode of browsers to get back to some webpages while you were disconnected to save money. -u/Dangerous_Biscotti63
12
Using the internet or the phone, not both -u/Myrko6902
13
Actually running out of pages on the internet to look at. -u/FighterWoman
14
Amazon only selling books. -u/Shiaomimi
15
Mapquest. Now we just have Google navigation and Apple maps
16
Encarta :D -u/yellowochre25
17
Internet dial up sound -u/Usernamess
18
Printing out pages and pages of cheat codes for games. -u/VastNewt
19
Not HAVING internet and playing Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball instead. -u/morenitababy
20
Readable Newspaper homepages -u/Karakoima
21
Readable Newspaper homepages -u/Karakoima
