The old internet, those were the days..

[Johnny4]

Any else miss the way the internet used to be, before the boom and bust? One of the greatest sites was IMDB before Amazon bought it. Thousands of free movie excerpts. Ice box was also another great site. Mr. Wong and the guys on the Space ship were hysterical. Everything was FREE. Name your favorites that are now gine.

Rackin' up bad Karma since 1971!

[Johnny4]

I thik my topic making privledges should be taken away. ouch.

Rackin' up bad Karma since 1971!

[KC2OSO]

I miss CU See ME. Some wild times there HoooAh. It all got bought up though and sucked the fun right out of it.

http://www.njmikec.com/Fester1.jpg

[Wolf]

I miss the FTP chat rooms before netscape and IE came out. Now that was early internet fun.

<marquee width=300>http://www.frichild.com<b>Friday's Child</b> - voted best new band by 2 million online listeners at <a href="http://www.cyberstationusa.com">CyberStationUSA.com.</a></marquee>
<a href="http://www.sifl-n-olly.com"><IMG SRC=http://cutter-iceman.scriptmania.com/images/chester-ville-head.gif></a><br>You mean the world ended?! The robot took my sandwich.

[DarkHippie]

OLGA: the on-line guitar archives used to be great. but they got threatened with law suits so they had to cut a lot of stuff out, like lyrics :(

<IMG SRC=http://members.aol.com/vikorynotvengnce/images/darkhippie.gif>
<marquee>Who is DarkHippie? "You look like an Amish child molester"-- Jim Norton. "Watch out for this one. Someday he's gonna snap and kill you all."-- Rich Vos </marquee>
<i>LABELS ARE FOR PRODUCTS, NOT PEOPLE! DON'T HUG A TREE, PLANT ONE!
</i><a href=http://www.freeopendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=A537085>Gonads and Strife: a journal</a>

[JustinR]

USENET...before the spammers found it.

*tear*

<center><a target=_top href="http://www.lentsite.com"><img src="http://www.lentsite.com/no.jpg" border="0"></a>
<a target=_top href="http://www.lentsite.com">LENTsite.com</a> * <a target=_top href="http://www.somethingawful.com">SomethingAwful.com
</a> </center>

[Bob Impact]

The ~Q was badass.

When mIRC was cool(All five minutes of that)

Or the original message board games on USENET.

There used to be a whole network of goofy webrings I was a part of when i had my first website, The Blue Bus, The Soda Popinski Fan Ring. These kids today don't know a good webring anymore.

What about when STILE project was still cool?

OR when IParty first came out, how F'n cool was that?

I can't tell you when the last time I had to use Telnet was.

-Bob Impact
"Welcome the whole new pain and take comfort in what you've become. I waved as I passed myself along the way. I have arrived so unashamed but my reflection no longer seems the same. It seems much dimmer now."- AFI, Exsanguination



This message was edited by Bob Impact on 11-11-02 @ 9:38 AM

[RandomNY]

I still use telnet to log into a MUD I play now and then... I remember getting my first 56k modem.. :) I thought I was the shit going from 28.8 and doubling to 56K.. whoohoo..


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IT'S ABOOUTT GETTINGG GUYSSS LAAIIDD!!!!!--Lickass

Die of Disteria you pathetic hack.. AWFUL-- NORTON

[wilee]

Young 'uns!

I remember logging into VAXes with a 300 baud modem to play text-based adventures! I used to call all the bulleting boards in my area to download games. Granted they were like 100K or so, but when you're downloading at 300 or even 1200 baud, it still took a while.

Hell, I remember typing in titles to IMDB and getting "No entry found". And that was for some mainstream films.

My favorite, though was before URL's were introduced. I think I still have a small notebook with lists of IP's scrawled in it. For both FTP and Gopher.

<IMG SRC="http://cwjr.home.infi.net/wilee.jpg">

[Smiledog11]

This one isn't even that old, but I remember a site called AdCritic. You could view thousands of commercials from all over the world as well as some spoofs, all free. It had a huge database where you could search for ads and you could find out what music was used. Like everything else on the 'net, you now have to pay. $70 a year! Booooo! <P>

http://www.silentspic.com/images/sighost/shortysmile.jpg

[Miss Dolores Haze]

I miss all the free porn. Now you have to pay and who has money for that? Ahh the good old days. Wow i feel thats a little premature!

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"You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go."

[JustJon]

Doesn't anyone remember Kibo? The internet was covered with "Kibo is God." Wired did a feature story on him and everything.

Or how about when Wired was a cool mag about technology, instead of the bullshit business publication they've become.

And Miss Haze, there's still free porn. You're just looking in the wrong places.

<img src="http://www.chaoticconcepts.com/bans/rfjustjon6.jpg">

[RandomNY]

Free porn one of the only benefits of being a computer tech.. The customers do the downloading for me. :) I just steal it from them..



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IT'S ABOOUTT GETTINGG GUYSSS LAAIIDD!!!!!--Lickass

Die of Disteria you pathetic hack.. AWFUL-- NORTON

[alexc]

My first internet connection a dial up to a vms account at SUNY ALbany. The way i surfed the web was thorugh lynx. All text based surfing. I had to use kermit to file transfers between my shell account and my pc.