The beginning days of the internet

btw, first internet memories of myself I remember chatting on MSM with my brother when he was in Latin America. This was 2003.

slow and more personal

>the average poster on this board can't remember the internet before 2010

Embarassing

i played habbo hotel

>>78636164
I do though, I started using it frequently in 2004-2005

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>>78636283
I started using around 2000 to search for rumours on upcoming Harry Potter books, those days there were several large "portal" sites that basically just had links to other sites based on categories, I guess because search engines weren't so great at the time.

My elementary school taught us how to research online for school work, so normies were using it back then, but they only really began spending lots of time on the internet around 2008 with Facebook and smartphones.

The internet in 2000 seemed cool and mysterious, no one used their real name (we were advised to do so by adults) and the portal sites had general chatrooms where you could talk to pedophiles pretending to be 13 year old girls. It was like entering a different world. Not the internet is just an extension of the real world.

>>78635487
so around 2001-02? we had a shitty connection back then.

>>78635487
>early days
>people using Google

>>78636164
That's probably not true, though.
I'm only 20, yet I've been using the internet since 2003-2004 -- when I was like 8 or 9.

There was always normies, difference is they were actually were able to read manuals to use IRC and usenet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Dial-up era internet sucked in general, fuck nostalgiafags

>>78636811
What do you think is the "dial-up era"?

Anyone who used dial-up after 2000 was probably poor.

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>>78635487
that's not even the first google

I used WWW when it was literally beta, i had a job using a NeXT workstation(the company that did WWW with SirTBL) that used a web address to access the companies hardware ordering list. All text, it was 1992. The first consumer modems that really spanned out with W95, 33k or whatever they were, were slow to the point of 3-4 minutes to load images sometimes and you had constant disconnects and then waiting for it to dial and reconnect. search engines like hotbot and altavista were shit too. The first people to use the actually www were mostly families and techies after W95 came out, a PC was such an investment it meant they were a 1 for the family kind of thing, second only to a car really in price of things owned by a home. normies made the internet and grew it, the kids and tech heads then filled it out with more stuff but even then, back in the old west days before 2000 you couldnt avoid vast troves of porn and illegal shit, it was everywhere and put there by "normies" who were suddenly introduced to a place of no rules(yet).

Tuesdays attack victims are the most persecuted victims.

thank you for reading my post

>>78636164
before the 2010s i'd spend all my time lurking wikis and video game forums. i visited /b/ like 3-4 times but it never manifested into anything. had it I could have been considered and oldfag.

>>78635487
idk I searched in Yandex

>>78635487
People were less informed before it was mainstream. Back in 2004, 4 out of 5 Americans I met on internet chat rooms thought we were still enemies when I said I was from Vietnam.

I'm 33 h
Internet came out in a big way when I was around 12 so 1996. I thought it was a passing fad and couldn't wait for it to go away, especially since I started seeing http//:www.[business-name].com on fucking everything, including my pogs and slammers.
Eventually I did like chatrooms, but they forced one out of normiehood. Since a particular chatroom would fill up easily, especially the good ones, if you left it would be difficult to get back in. You couldn't really use it during the day because someone always eventually needed to use the phone, which kicked you off the internet, as a result serious internet users who were kids often stayed up all night when no one was using the phone, then they were useless during the day. Before the internet we were all normies, some were just the nerdy or dumb kids in class.

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>1998
>10 years old
>modem made lots of cool robot noises
>couldn't use the phone and surf the web at the same time
>googling Grim Fandango gameshark codes
>100000000000000% fewer ads
>homepage was yahoo.com
>Dad: "Hey son, I just checked my rocketmail and Bill from work sent me this funny dancing baby. Check it out!"
>Homestar Runner
>JESSICA MYDEK IS SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IS SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE AND VERY RARE CASE OF CEREBRAL CARCINOMA
>*phone rings* "hello?" "WAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
>downloading learn_to_fly.mp3 on Napster at 15KB/s
>"You will receive $200 from Bill Gates for each person you forward this e-mail to."
>Spider Solitaire

I could go on, but typing this made me really sad.

>>78636947
I'd say roughly 1993-2003 is the dial up era, everything was dogshit slow and sites primitive, IRC and ICQ were the most popular attraction. 2003-2008 was the glory days of old internet, adsl/cable became widespread and sites started to adapt, first social sites myspce etc, content and piracy became plentiful, few restrictions and policing. post 2009 is iphone era

>>78637293
>>1998
>>10 years old

why is a grandpa on 4chan

>>78635487
Normies mostly came after social media became a thing. I first started using it in 1997. It was slower and wilder (not watched or regulated by authorities)

I am 26, Internet did not reach brazil really in the beginning (we had economic protective laws, so must of our tech was 10 yo).
I remember opening outlook express and sending a email to a tv station complaining about the faggotry in the cartoons and asking for more animes (i was 10 back them). I fuck up and somehow send this email to all my father email contacts.
I only became addicted when i discover a mmorpg called Tibia when i was 13. I am 26 yo now...

>>78636947
1996-2010 for my family.

And yes, we were poor

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We had a Windows 2000 desktop, which was mostly used by my older brother for downloading mp3 files on Napster, and then Kazaa/LimeWire when they got shut down. I played a few DOS games, but otherwise didn't use the computer much. When I was 7 my brother went overseas to work, so our family used email to keep in touch. My cousins had a better computer, and had cool games like Stonekeep and Time Commando. They were able to even download Simpsons episodes over dial up.

It was probably only around when I started intermediate (Junior high for Americans) that I started using the internet myself. I used to go on Gamespot to see the latest ps2 game reviews, and used Wikipedia and the Britannica website for school. I also downloaded game roms. We first got broadband around this point.

I was never really involved with forums until reddit and 4chan during high school about a decade ago. Youtube came along and quickly exploded as most people had broadband by now, albeit with data caps. I used MSN messenger more than texting with my highschool friends as well, and I had my own Hotmail account.

Trademe (our ebay) blew up in the mid 2000s, as did online banking, so I started selling a few things online. Bebo and Myspace were the first crappy social networks I used, moving onto facebook around 2010.

I agree with the other posters in that the internet felt more like a separate world. I think it was because there was no social media when I grew up with it, so you were more anonymous and things were more private. There was a greater divide between what was online and offline. There were no "smart" internet integrated devices, every phone was a brick and computer games came on CD Roms, but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

My generation saw the internet mature. It's going to develop in the craziest ways in the future, but we were there in the early days.

>>78637433
>I remember opening outlook express and sending a email to a tv station complaining about the faggotry in the cartoons and asking for more animes
ahahahhaha

>>78637466
Damn. I'm middle class and when I was hanging up at friends' houses in 2000 or so nobody was using dial-up.

>>78637344
1988 here, show some respect to your elders

>>78637176
We are still enemies, People's Republic of Vietnam.

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>>78636976
I used mostly BBSs during the 90s.

>>78637530
Only 50% ofAmericans used the internet before 2010.

I know that jews have a great IT community and are high tech though
Helps that they live in a tiny block.

>>78637532
>1988 here
same
>tfw becoming too old for internet

German computer magazines often wrote about it at the end of the 90s. According to them it was a very good search engine.

>>78637699
Oh, OP meant the internet. I had a very slow modem connection around 2000. It was also really expensive. The connections were never stable. But my school had fast internet.

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>>78637608
fucking photobucket kike faggots

anyway I remember going to altavista.com (before google was a thing) and typing in e-mail bomber, finding a webpage with an online bomber on the first result that would send
10000 copies of your message tp a email adress of your choice.

>>78635487
There wasn't a search engine, so you couldn't really browse like today. You had the adress of your news site, your joke site, your funny pic site, and you checked the sites for regular updates.

>>78637083
Same, I convinced my parents to get Internet, just because I could get my hands on cheats for GTA (2008)
Later I lurked in chatrooms and on football forums

>>78638606
>There wasn't a search engine,

There was, it was called altavista.com and was started in 1995.

Also usenet newsgroups were really big back then.

>>78638858
you have no idea what you are talking about.
just because a few nerds used newsgroups doesn't mean it was "big"

>>78638955
normies only came after 2008 or so, in the 1990s it was mostly nerds and techies anyway. I know I was there.

I had the Internet in my home since the mid 90s, my mom was a teacher and used it for school related things
there wasn't much to do for a little kid with no english knowledge, but in the early 00s, when I got my own pc and started having a grasp of this barbaric language, I finally started using it to its potential
it was some wild shit, slow and unreliable
you wanted to download a song? good luck browsing through pages and pages of a fucked up archive without any search function, with the titles slightly changed, and a good possibility that after waiting five hours for limewire or winmx to do their thing it wasn't what the title was suggesting it was (this was done by wannabe djs trying to publicize their low-quality horsehit remixes)
wanna look at some titties? good luck keeping your boner up while waiting minutes for a single image to appear on your screen, with a good possibility that a phallic surprise was waiting for you at the end
wanna watch a movie? you had to physically remove the phone so no one in your house would interrupt your precious download, and wait two days or more for a release that looked like shit even on a crt, with a good possibility that you were being rused into downloading some raygold bullshit and then fearing that the police would come knocking any minute now
the forums and message boards were good though, the chatrooms even better, a lot of roleplaying, soliciting and the mindless early days of trolling trolls
good times, then the "web 2.0" came and things changed
in some ways 4chan is one of the remnants of the Internet of yesteryear

>>78635487
>the beginning
>posts screenshot of google which was founded in 1998
>asks stupid questions
>being underage
K Y S

>>78635487
It had a more friendly and homemade look.

>>78635487
I remember about going to a hundred different webstites every day, having various fun and activities.

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>>78635487
started using internet in late 90s and then in 01 i found out about runescape and here i am, still playing runescape in 2017

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>>78635487
Definitely had it by the late 90s when I was 7-8. I remember because I was the only kid in class who had internet access.
Everything was paid by the minute at the rates for a phone call, which meant you'd find a few websites you need, let them load and disconnect before you get charged for the next started 3 minutes or whatever it was. Lots of noise involved with the dial-up modem. Also the fucking thing would shit itself the moment someone picked up the phone, fucking infuriating when someone did it when you were downloading a huge 2MB file.
I got a pay per month connection by the early 00s so that's when I started using the internet a lot. ISDN too, so mom could actually chat hours away on the phone while I was browsing.
Probably the most important thing is that the internet was a lot more decentralized. Every little thing had its little own website. There were very few megasites that now make up the majority of all traffic, you wanted to find shit about a specific game, you went to someone's tiny dedicated site.
Also RIP pic related, you were my best friend.

>>78639299
>and a good possibility that after waiting five hours for limewire or winmx to do their thing it wasn't what the title was suggesting it was
MY FELLOW AMERICANS, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY ONCE AGAIN THAT I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN

>>78639698
https://youtu.be/Zej3h8WcH_I

>>78639573
lol when did you never get tired of it?

>>78635487
Had to go to internet cafes

took about 20 seconds for a games website to load

>>78641047
why*

I started with sites like GameFAQs and Neopets in 2000.

>>78641121
i don't know. my life would be empty without it

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>>78635487
Shit. Dial-up modem, 56kb/s at home. Something better at school, on Macintosh desktops (late 90's).
Fairly common. As I was young and mostly fetching skateboarding videos and mp3s, I really can't say. My mom was a nerd as well.
Oh I didnt know about Google until early 00, Altavista was the thing then..

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hampsterdance.com was THE meme. Every site had a visitors counter. ICQ, Napster... Awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

>>78642273
what about rotten.com then?

I started using the internet around the time it became commercially available in the Netherlands in the mid 90's.

I mostly used the internet to search for cheatcodes for games online.
In 1999 you could start playing Starcraft 1 over the phone.

>>78642358
I miss Ogrish the most.

>>78642488
Oh Starcraft was 1998.

i used a PC for the first time when i was 9 or 10, in 2002-2003 and the truly first time i used internet probably was at school in 2005-2006. i used internet only for Dragonball porn

>>78642525
man I never forget the first time I saw the video of that Russian soldier getting beheaded by Chechens.

everyone was a full autist by today's standards

Don't really remember, since my English was shit in 1998-2002 so my internet activities mostly was reading smuts in my language.

2002-2006 I was indulged in playing Ragnarok Online and Maple Story, hacking some online stores with SQL Injection that was widely spread and sold cc numbers for $1 each and feels good about making more money per month than most adults.

Found 4chan in 2007 and my life started going downhill from there.

>>78643085
Chechens are right fucked up. So many vids where they keep sawing heads off alive with dull knives.

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This guy was the best at finding ROMs and other illegal shit.

>>78635487
I started to use it around 2000-2002 mostly to find tips about Morrowind, Age of Empirs, and Warcraft 1/2/3

>>78644000
I used Yahoo btw

>>78635487
>How long did it take before "normies" started using it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September