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Tell me about the pre-1998 internet/computer scene
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Date: August 11th, 2011 4:56 PM Author: salmon locale i wasn't online until 1998 due to being in a family that didn't have a lot of cash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734427) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 4:59 PM Author: Charismatic medicated yarmulke 1998 period was the worst IMO
it was better like 90-94 when BBSs were still around and local communities actually formed around them.
i went to regular BBS meetups as a young teen |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 4:59 PM Author: salmon locale weren't a lot of BBS owners surprisingly old? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734448) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:04 PM Author: aphrodisiac institution Yes, and creepy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734473) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:12 PM Author: azure exhilarant kitchen deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734533) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:23 PM Author: Charismatic medicated yarmulke i'd say it was 50/50 but yes, surprising when 50+ year old people are playing around with basically toys (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734625) |
Date: August 11th, 2011 4:57 PM Author: laughsome massive weed whacker depressive alt.faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734433) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 4:57 PM Author: twisted hairy legs messageboards, mIRC, netscape, AOL noobs being pwned, shitty html websites on geocities (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734437) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:07 PM Author: Floppy Public Bath Striped Hyena haha, i forgot about geocities. there was some good porn on geocities (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734489) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:13 PM Author: twisted hairy legs kids don't realize what it was like downloading jpgs and gifs on a 33.6 modem (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734538) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:14 PM Author: salmon locale did you ever get a timeout or server error mid-download, before the good part of the photo was even loaded? how did such incidents make you feel? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734549) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:22 PM Author: twisted hairy legs Man if you're close to finishing you just work with what you got, even if it's just the face. The idea that something is hidden can be arousing in and of itself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734610) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 4:58 PM Author: stirring maniacal house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734440) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:06 PM Author: Concupiscible nofapping half-breed church building covered well in the movie hackers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734482) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:11 PM Author: salmon locale user interfaces were 3D graphical representations of server farms? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734523) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:13 PM Author: Concupiscible nofapping half-breed church building yea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734539) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:07 PM Author: Twinkling hyperventilating sanctuary mexican Did you ever see the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan? It was kinda like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734493) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:10 PM Author: azure exhilarant kitchen deer antler Most people accessed the internet through AOL, Compuserve, or Prodigy via dial up modem. At the time a lot of people thought of the internet as chat rooms provided by the isp. Most isps also provided headline news and sports. Getting box scores right after a sporting event was a pretty big deal at the time for anybody in playing fantasy football/Baseball/Basketball. Prior to that you had no idea how your fantasy guys did until you read it in the paper the next morning.
There were new isps popping up every month and they usually gave free trials. So it was pretty easy to find free internet access.
The www was still in its infancy. I remember when AOL teamed up with netscape (which was the biggest browser at the time) around 1995 or 96 to provide access to the www. That was a big deal since it gave millions of people their first taste of the www.
Most websites were horrid looking and caused eye bleeding. They were usually hosted on geocities. There was internet porn, but it was mostly pictures since broadband was very limited at that time.
If you have any specific questions I'll try to answer them. |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:13 PM Author: salmon locale when did javascript and CSS start to pop up on websites? when and why did macromedia flash begin to get popular? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734541) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:16 PM Author: azure exhilarant kitchen deer antler Not until broadband began to expand after 2000. Pages with that would have taken forever to load on dialup. Prior to that the only animation on websites were in gif files.
Macromedia and flash probably got popular because they're pretty easy to learn. |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:23 PM Author: salmon locale how much video did you try to watch online back in the day? did you download realplayer/quicktime clips and that sort of thing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734623) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:31 PM Author: azure exhilarant kitchen deer antler I didn't get broadband in my area until 2001. Prior to that downloading video was too slow. The phone lines in my area were also old, so there were frequent timeouts, which made dl videos a nightmare.
But realplayer and quicktime were the most common video formats.
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:11 PM Author: Excitant stubborn stag film it was a lot like the hacking scene in jurassic park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734529) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:21 PM Author: laughsome massive weed whacker depressive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734599) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:22 PM Author: Concupiscible nofapping half-breed church building PLEASE! Goddamnit, I hate this hacker crap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734615) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:20 PM Author: laughsome massive weed whacker depressive http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQA58WZSeuG0HOmVSsGKLCvdqcQM4DTlQnfNQMb_XsNlcChZDMQuw
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQgjxqlKo9NVzUa0xUUVCUPSaa1EoipKtpd8F9JOZ0zfopDkbtK5HkOfey9dA |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:24 PM Author: Titillating quadroon jewess http://loldialup.ytmnd.com/
http://realdialuplol.ytmnd.com/ |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:34 PM Author: lascivious violet theater stage http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515XKNZBFDL._SL500_AA300_.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734682) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:57 PM Author: heady meetinghouse wrinkle aol chatrooms dawg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734811) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 5:59 PM Author: Vivacious Crackhouse Hilarious shit was hilarious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734826) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:02 PM Author: Drunken grizzly national Greetings,
gif gif1 gif2 ANYONE WANT SOME FULL BUSH, PING ME! /s ping.wav ; *PING!* |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:13 PM Author: Vivacious Crackhouse I used to flame those chatrooms all the time. I once flamed them by telling them that I was a 12 year old boy and asking if a dirty old man wanted to make me happy. You won't believe how many IM's I got. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734890) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:15 PM Author: Drunken grizzly national Greetings,
lol it was like the South Park episode about NAMBLA where Cartman goes online and types that he's a little boy and gets a bunch of IMs from hungdaddy and the like: "hi i'm 12 inches" and responds "sorry i don't like midgets" yeah, i'd sleep over at a buddy's house (no homo) and we'd flame the gay chatrooms with FAGGOT FAGIT FAGORT and such i'm sure 99% of the people there were straight JHS kids |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:05 PM Author: Carmine diverse nursing home pistol i was a kid but i didnt think of the internet as "the internet," it was just "AOL" or "CompuServ" to me and i didn't really understand the concept of the WWW. i just used AOL features.
and:
https://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm?hoho |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:06 PM Author: laughsome massive weed whacker depressive email me your telephone number and i will call and tell you about it on my phone in the kitchen. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734857) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:10 PM Author: Drunken grizzly national Greetings,
if you typed "lol" no one would get it also, MIT AI lab, geek code, and the almighty jargon file |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 6:38 PM Author: Lavender stock car stead around 1999-2002 it was awesome because there was a lag between when normal people got broad band and poors got it. it the internet was almost entirely are country and nigger free. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18734959) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 7:50 PM Author: azure exhilarant kitchen deer antler I think what you mean is that the wealthy didn't necessarily get broadband before the poors and middle class. This was pretty much true since most isps rolled out broadband starting in areas closest to their data centers and spread outward. If a poor area happened to be close to the isp's data center, it probably had broadband by 2000. Whereas, there were wealthy areas that still didn't have broadband in 2002. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18735310) |
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Date: August 11th, 2011 7:58 PM Author: twisted hairy legs HELLO MY FUTURE GIRLFRIEND! THIS IS WHAT I SOUND LIKE. I AM 11 YEARS OLD IN THE SIXTH GRADE IN NEW MEXICO. PLEASE PM ME IF YOU ARE ON YAHOO CHAT. BYE, THANKS FOR STOPPING BY! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1729747&forum_id=2#18735349) |