internet things that im glad are obsolete:

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: glenn1
Dial-up, AOL, and Internet Explorer, in that order.

Dial-up is still used and so is IE... IE isn't that bad either... I don't think Firefox is a permanent replacement...

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I only use IE on sites where people can't code properly.


(Admittedly, I don't recognize the True and Chaotic Neutral logos.)


Edit: Found a useful guide.
Never heard of "Flock" before.

The other one is Safari

 

[Kadarin]

Excessive and tacky usage of frames.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
knowledge of serial modem commands... Glad I'm not one of those old fogies....

LOL I had to use this recently. But yeah glad it's not the norm of every day IT operations.

Well only a few. atd atz atdt

atdt is lot of fun. I kept calling my coworker's extension over and over and it was dead silence when he picked up. He was like "wtf?" Yes I can do that with a phone but it's less obvious if I'm just typing away at a keyboard. But yeah we have an old pager system that is managed through a modem.

 

[brtspears2]

Obtaining a password to a FTP by visiting an through a refferal link and counting for the 5th word in the 3th paragraph of the page for the password. And for most practical reasons, websites using frames.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Excessive and tacky usage of frames.

This, and mad animated GIFs. Don't forget the 100x100 animated ones used as tiled backgrounds!

Ok, so when I first learned html, I thought all of those things were cool. My college teacher also thought those things were cool. I totally almost failed that class for usage of excessive css, clean layouts, lack of frames, etc.

The only frames I don't mind are iframes, but please kill that border and don't overdo it!

One thing I do miss is warez ftps though. Don't think they're that common these days as lawyers destroy those like a pack of wolves spotting an injured zebra. Back in the day I used to be a member at a warez forum and we all had our own FTPs which we shared. Good times. Got shut down like 5 times then we pretty much lost track of each other. I always said we needed to keep tabs with each other outside the forum but it never really happened.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Riceninja
click to vote top 100 ranking sites

these are still around too if you wanna play private servers lol

 

[Ninepepper]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Gopher

Kermit

Mosaic text only browser

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Obtaining a password to a FTP by visiting an through a refferal link and counting for the 5th word in the 3th paragraph of the page for the password. And for most practical reasons, websites using frames.

haha i always thought that that was kinda fun

 

[MotF Bane]

Dialup. Myspace?

 

[biggestmuff]

frog in a blender
The formula 1 pic with the high-pitched 'weeen-dinga-ding' voice-over.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
knowledge of serial modem commands... Glad I'm not one of those old fogies....

As soon as I find my teeth, I'm going to bite your ass!

I'll pin him down with my walker!
Atdt

Be warned, I can flame faster than 300baud. However, I guess I'm at a disadvantage as I don't have hte carrier pidgeons to reach your corners of the internets...err....bbs.

 

[nageov3t]

having a huge download interrupted and ruined because someone decided to call you.

 

[KingGheedora]

Those CD's full of shareware. I wasted so much time browsing through and messing with every single app on some of those shareware app and shareware game compilation CD's.

Wish I had put that time towards a skill that would be useful today.

 

[CKent]

My cousin just had me clean the crap out of her computer again. She still uses AOL with a dialup modem, and the AOL software still installs the one and only RealPlayer

If you think private trackers are no better than public, ignorance must be bliss.

 

[Lean L]

I hope facebook, myspace, twitter will end soon

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
frog in a blender
The formula 1 pic with the high-pitched 'weeen-dinga-ding' voice-over.

Nope, he's still around, surprisingly enough.

http://joecartoon.atom.com/car...s/67-frog_in_a_blender

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: FP
Geocities with insane numbers of animated gifs.

Or the ones with dark black and blue tiled image backgrounds with light blue and yellow text.

Amen! I remember in the 90s when every page was either geocities, tripod, or angelfire was had neon green text.

 

[Fenixgoon]

things i wish were obsolete but aren't:

quicktime

 

[Riceninja]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
things i wish were obsolete but aren't:

quicktime

itunes

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: iamanidiot
I hope facebook, myspace, twitter will end soon

please make them stop.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

bozai buddy, first post, packard bell

 

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: coloumb
300 baud modems.

And by saying this I'm cursing myself. I'll never have to see 300 baud again!!!

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: loki8481
having a huge download interrupted and ruined because someone decided to call you.

Having a huge download ruined because after it finished Microsoft Windows Explorer popped up a file-copy progress dialog to copy from whatever temp folder to your destination folder, stealing focus from your Instant Message/Word Processor/whatever and canceling when you type space... OH WAIT.

I hate Microsoft. Heads should roll considering that this same shit still goes on in the latest version. There really is no excuse. Apple wouldn't tolerate that crap on OS-X.

 

[CZroe]

Posting "me too" like some brain-dead AOL-er is obsolete because they are now on non-AOL broadband clogging up news, blog, and YouTube comments sections and turning them into useless wastelands of "LOL!", "o haha made me laff," and "omg how u do that man that is totaly awsom???" comments. Web 2.0 = WORSE THAN EVER.

 

[lxskllr]

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