I just realized I've spent more time with the internet in my life than without. I don;t miss the old internet per se but I miss that era of my life. The simple times with simple web sites.
Me too. I got the internet probably around 10 years old and now I'm almost 31. I do kind of miss the old chat rooms and websites. What about downloading like 20-30 second clips of music videos in quick time format? Anyone else do that a lot?
And realtime player for streaming music. Terrible time that was.
You know when I was home on vacation from UK back in the early 2000s, I was out in the sticks and was forced to use dial-up Internet (because that was all that was available there; cable TV was just out of range as well)...and I often compared the difference between that and Ethernet/high speed Internet (included in UK tuition) was like B/W and color television. I even remember a Simpsons episode poking fun at watching a video on such a tiny little window...but that was mostly all you had! Wow, even in the early 2000s (and of course mid/late 90s) the Internet was the equivalent of B/W television and the Indian head test pattern and all that! And who could forget that distinctive dialup connecting or losing your Internet if someone tries to call! And heaven help you if you only had one phone line!
Yeah, my parents live in "the sticks" as well, but in their case they live on a main highway outside of big city, 5 miles from a small town. Across the street is a buried fibre line with more speed than they could ever use and there was nothing that they could do to get a sinlge telco to give them broadband.
To this day, there is no broadband option and they moved from dial-up, to sattelite (because it finally dropped to a cheap enough price) some time around 2010-2012. Dial-up still exists and more people use it than you'd think, but it's usually out of necessity.
We still have trouble with net as it was cable or nothing as the other option was verizon and they literally signed us up knowing that the official internet service ended a half mile from our house. Game companies always get flack for wanting always connected systems but they don't realize that there's a ton of dial up folks out there still. I really miss Netscape as it wasn't a bad piece of software. I remember downloading clips from Final fantasy 8 for a project in art school and using the school's t1 line as it was just easier but you'd have to paste together like 4 clips to see it all lol
Lol... I remember the first time back in the 90s when I was surfing the internet in the middle of the night (pretty new to the whole internet thing) on some dial-up service, and I did not realize music (MIDIs) could be played on websites. All I have to say is I was -very- creeped out when music started to come over my speakers, and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from/why it was playing.
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And realtime player for streaming music. Terrible time that was.
You know when I was home on vacation from UK back in the early 2000s, I was out in the sticks and was forced to use dial-up Internet (because that was all that was available there; cable TV was just out of range as well)...and I often compared the difference between that and Ethernet/high speed Internet (included in UK tuition) was like B/W and color television. I even remember a Simpsons episode poking fun at watching a video on such a tiny little window...but that was mostly all you had! Wow, even in the early 2000s (and of course mid/late 90s) the Internet was the equivalent of B/W television and the Indian head test pattern and all that! And who could forget that distinctive dialup connecting or losing your Internet if someone tries to call! And heaven help you if you only had one phone line!
Yeah, my parents live in "the sticks" as well, but in their case they live on a main highway outside of big city, 5 miles from a small town. Across the street is a buried fibre line with more speed than they could ever use and there was nothing that they could do to get a sinlge telco to give them broadband.
To this day, there is no broadband option and they moved from dial-up, to sattelite (because it finally dropped to a cheap enough price) some time around 2010-2012. Dial-up still exists and more people use it than you'd think, but it's usually out of necessity.
Ahhh the memories.