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Anyone use the internet in the 90's?
Charcole911
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Look at the size of this web address for the BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_ruBwYGtg&feature=related
What ISP did you go with in the 90s??
What websites and services did you use?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_ruBwYGtg&feature=related
What ISP did you go with in the 90s??
What websites and services did you use?
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Freeserve.
I was with AOL back in those days, and I really don't miss the dial-up tones.
I didn't use the internet until 2001.
as for websites, mostly university stuff, though I think prob the BBC site as well. Search engine of choice at the time was Altavista or Yahoo.
Freeserve
Screaming.net
Hotbot was out too. It hasn't changed.
I can almost remember the address for the first porn site I found, it was etched into my memory so I wouldn't have to write it down anywhere.
I remember the £300 pounds a quarter phone bills. I must have been mega rich in those days.
We got the Internet at home at the end of that year - Freeserve. We never used it much though as it was dial-up and therefore slow and expensive.
I had AOL dial up and it came with this children's internet thing, with message boards and this thing called the Green Bear or something.. I sent him a message and he sent me a letter in the post from America :eek: I was so excited I was like... 7? at the time. There was also chatrooms like a Spongebob chatroom, which I got banned from once, and the whole internet got disconnected :eek: all because I wouldn't stop asking who Spongebob was
Brings back memories of the old dial up noise, astronomical quarterly phone bills and everyone I know complaining about never being able to get through to me on the phone as it was always engaged.
Spent most of my time on the Dotmusic Forums back then and I'm still in touch with a couple of friends I made on there.
Used to love the little AOL keyword things - I didn't even realise there was an internet outside of that until I'd been using it for months.
My mum used to nearly cry each time the phone bill came in though..
What I do remember is that I opened up my first email adds with Rocketmail (later taken over by hotmail I think). I also used to spend hours and hours on Yahoo Chat. It was amazing to be able to chat with people from all over the world! Also spent a lot of time reading up on TV shows as they aired in the US despite still having to wait ages for their UK airings.
At that time Google didn't exist and it was Yahoo that everybody used. Also, netmeeting was the application that allowed you to webcam with other people!
I think we got a PC and hooked it up to a prehistoric internet connection at Christmas 97. My parents got it as with me being overseas in the UK they thought the "internet" might allow for easier, more frequent and cheaper contact than 44p a minyte calls Gibraltar-Uk as they were priced back in the late 90s.