Comments on: Internet Memories

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:42:55 +0000

I don’t remember what I first searched on the internet, btw

By: dandellion

dandellion — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:14:42 +0000

yes. That difference is huge. Other one that is flashing in my mind today while I think about theese things is design. Just remember all those pages withe tiled backgrounds, huge font-faces, animated gifs that looks like circus, most of the text centered… and every site was proud of visitors counter like it is mandatory to show it.

By: ibit

ibit — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:39:08 +0000

Isn’t it incredible that there only a handful of sites on the Web, and we knew most of them by heart? Now there are more blogs than there were websites in the first year of http://WWW.

By: dandellion

dandellion — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:11:02 +0000

1996, my early twenties. Compuer center at my faculty, which is important cause we were using no dial-up there. For those times that connection was fast. I still remember Netscape and the thrill of the first e-mail exchanged with a friend just for the sake of exchanging e-mails.
After a month or so I knew all the sites in certain sections of Yahoo!’s directory.

By: ibit

ibit — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:40:35 +0000

oh, yeah - fast speed of 14.4. I remember how we were downloading the latest version of Linux FreeBSD for 2-3 days

By: Ronalfy

Ronalfy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:09:25 +0000

I first got online (at the ripe old age of fourteen) in 1995 on Windows 3.1. I was using a service called Polarnet in Fairbanks, Alaska and had a blazingly fast speed of 14.4.

In the early days, Netscape was just hitting the 1.0 version. The only browsers that were available were text-only.

Then — it seemed — everything just exploded. Yahoo was the big thing with their “What’s cool” section and online shopping started to take off.

I quickly learned how to type by using an early version of mIRC. I was actually a very active member of #13-17bestbet on Undernet. Ah, the memories.

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:42:27 +0000

I’m glad you liked the article, it’s still one of my favorites. We are very lucky to have witnessed the birth of the mainstream Internet, and now we watch it evolve and grow.

My first experience with the “Internet” was with Prodigy, pre-1994. I don’t remember much other than it was interesting. I was pretty young at the time, maybe 9, 10, or 11 years old. My next experience was at school in the 7th grade (1994 or 1995), where we used it as a research tool. The first things I searched for (with netscape) was all the major mountain bike manufacturers — I was (and still am) into mountain biking at the time.

Now, I rely on the Internet for nearly everything. I can’t imagine my life without a high speed cable Internet connection, let alone life without the Internet.