I didnt join the internet until 2001

[bctbct]

I'm guessing that it started with one thing?

 

[Pepsi90919]

0 stars

 

[her209]

Napster...

 

[SlitheryDee]

It was a joint effort between the government and God.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: bctbct
I'm guessing that it started with one thing?

pr0n.

You totally missed out.

 

[NanoStuff]

It started with what they call a big bang. Then the earth was made, then dinosaurs came, then they left, then god said "No way am I spending the rest of eternity on this without beating it off", so then the internet came.

 

[bctbct]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory

Originally posted by: bctbct
I'm guessing that it started with one thing?

pr0n.

You totally missed out.

Oh, I got caught up


Any serious answers? Anyone here old enough?

 

[mugs]

Everything was grey.
And then there were frames.
And here we are now.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
It was a joint effort between the government and God.

And God said, let there be war dialing and then there was War Games.

 

[Regs]

military started it because they needed a decentralized network for communication.

Then they opened the door for commerical use and everybody got rich.

 

[bctbct]

Originally posted by: Regs
military started it because they needed a decentralized network for communication.

Then they opened the door for commerical use and everybody got rich.

Was there a "1st" website??

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: bctbct

Originally posted by: Regs
military started it because they needed a decentralized network for communication.

Then they opened the door for commerical use and everybody got rich.

Was there a "1st" website??

Hello World

 

[vital]

irc, gopher, lynx, icq..

 

[amdforever2]

In the beginning, there was ICQ and Netscape and the people were oppressed by great evils like RealPlayer, programs which possessed a desire to dominate all life................

Then, the Borg came..............Internet Explorer and the supporters of it's tyranny (WMP and MSN) destroyed not only Netscape but ICQ and Real and all of the remnants of the old world.......

 

[KillerCharlie]

Everyone had geocities and angelfire websites that were the most craptastic things you'd have ever seen.

 

[waggy]

sigh. i hated the early "net". 2 minutes to download a grainy porn pic suck.

 

[Noema]

People used Altavista to search.

 

[potoba]

my first website was yahoo.com
it was in 1998

 

[Scouzer]

I made my first Angelfire website in 1996.

I got internet at home in 1997.

It was dominated by ICQ and Netscape 3 Gold...IE was total crap back then. Netscape 4 was crap too, for that matter.

 

[bctbct]

So did all major retailers rush to get online shops? What was there to do the 1st year? Obviously no chat rooms/online forums?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

IMO the first step was the phone modem, not exactly sure when it was invented. But by the early eighties IT guys were using modems to connect remotely to main frame business computers. Tech colleges began experimenting and forming crude LANs, then Al Gore came along and connected them all

The first ISP's I remember are Prodigy and AOL. I signed up for AOL in 88 or 89. At the time the lack of content was astounding by todays standards, AOL's own hosted content was generally more volumous and useful than the "World Wide Web" as it was refered to at the time. I connected through a 2400 baud modem that was ass slow, even compared to current dialup. And the content was almost entirely all text, very few images.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: potoba
my first website was yahoo.com
it was in 1998

I remember mine was in either 1993 or 1994 when webcrawler was the preferred search engine.

 

[djplayx714]

Back then you were either on AOL or IRC and one was a helluva lot cheaper to be on than the other.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: amdforever2
In the beginning, there was ICQ and Netscape and the people were oppressed by great evils like RealPlayer, programs which possessed a desire to dominate all life................

Then, the Borg came..............Internet Explorer and the supporters of it's tyranny (WMP and MSN) destroyed not only Netscape but ICQ and Real and all of the remnants of the old world.......

MSIE 3 came out in 1996 or so. ICQ and RealPlayer didn't really come into their own until after that.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: bctbct
So did all major retailers rush to get online shops? What was there to do the 1st year? Obviously no chat rooms/online forums?

"online malls", a 3D virtual shopping experience, was the big thing in the early-mid 90s, and pushed mostly by CompuServe.