Internet Nostalgia

[s0litude]

I remember the time BEFORE the internet, days of the telnet and getting on the computers in college in 1992, having to remember that "638" was the "room" where the lesbians were. Floating around actually LOOKING for channels where like-minded individuals were... and still chatting all night, jumping in the shower, grabbing my books, and running across campus to my classes.

I still recall an all-night chat session, getting the dates wrong on a presentation due, and as a last-minute solution, telling my friend, "Fuck it. You know what I'm doing for my class presentation?" I said nothing more; I just grinned at her and threw my bag over my shoulder.

I went to class and when the professor asked me what my presentation was, I told her: "Me." I OUTED myself to my class, let them ask questions, assured them that nothing they asked would be inappropriate or rude as long as I saw they were making a sincere effort to be courteous and respectful. It was great.

The professor told me later it was one of the boldest things she'd ever seen a student do-- this was 1992. I did ace the presentation.

cojones > preparation

Sometimes, not always, being a slacker can give you some great ideas. Let's hear it for the late-night chatters-- even BEFORE the time of "Chat Rooms"! LOL!

[Medusa]

My yahoo email address is almost 16 years old


Remember Lycos? GoFetch? Infoseek?

What about Jennicam?!

How about rotten.com?



Talk to me about what your first 6 months on the net looked like! Did you surf for hours? Chat endlessly? What was the thing you found online that blew your mind way back then?

[aishah]

not exactly internet nostalgia but...ascii oregon trail on floppy disks. 2nd grade. best thing ever.

we got a computer when i was 8 or 9 i think and i don't remember what my first few months on the internet looked like...but there were a bunch more sites for kids that age then and there was one just for kids where you could make webpages. that was where i first started learning how to code

the cuppycake song...my favorite next to the dancing baby.

that nifty screensaver with the fish that you had to feed and take care of.

lycos and infoseek...and askjeeves! is that site even still around anymore?

my first or second email address (longest before i switched to gmail) was trippingonroses@comcast.net because my middle name is rose.

researching things my mom didn't want me to research...and also "researching" things i definitely had no business looking at

not that long ago, but when you had to be in college to join facebook. we learned how to join during my freshman orientation at florida state.

when you had to keep track of your own friends (online and otherwise) and didn't have facebook to do it for you!

[Princess]

Originally Posted by joyful albatross

not exactly internet nostalgia but...ascii oregon trail on floppy disks. 2nd grade. best thing ever.

we got a computer when i was 8 or 9 i think and i don't remember what my first few months on the internet looked like...but there were a bunch more sites for kids that age then and there was one just for kids where you could make webpages. that was where i first started learning how to code

the cuppycake song...my favorite next to the dancing baby.

that nifty screensaver with the fish that you had to feed and take care of.

lycos and infoseek...and askjeeves! is that site even still around anymore?

my first or second email address (longest before i switched to gmail) was trippingonroses@comcast.net because my middle name is rose.

researching things my mom didn't want me to research...and also "researching" things i definitely had no business looking at

not that long ago, but when you had to be in college to join facebook. we learned how to join during my freshman orientation at florida state.

when you had to keep track of your own friends (online and otherwise) and didn't have facebook to do it for you!

oregon trail ftw! i loved that game...recently i played oregon trail on a projector screen in a room full of nerds at a sci fi convention..hands down one of the best moments of the night

[Kobi]

Nostalgia? I was still using dial up until 2 months ago.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Kobi

Nostalgia? I was still using dial up until 2 months ago.

If you tell us you use AOL for your mail, I'm putting you on a time-out!! LOLOL

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Medusa

If you tell us you use AOL for your mail, I'm putting you on a time-out!! LOLOL

I AM! I think Gemme still does too.

<-- loyal boy

[Medusa]

Im pretty sure this was during the time when a lot of ISPs had a monthly flat fee and then charged like another .50 an hour for anything over 10 hours?

[DapperButch]

*Dial up sound...for sure miss it...you guys who got kicked off when another call came in? All you needed to do was turn off call waiting and then you were ok (and the caller just got a busy signal!).

"You got mail" sound...still have it. ;-)

Ally Mcbeal? I watched it. Fell in love with Portia de Rossi well before she ever came OUT and I ever knew she was gay. I had mixed feelings on the dancing baby. I liked it, but it freaked me out at the same time.

Fun topic.

[alexri]

I used Prodigy, dial-up modems, and old text character bulletin boards.

[Medusa]

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

*Dial up sound...for sure miss it...you guys who got kicked off when another call came in? All you needed to do was turn off call waiting and then you were ok (and the caller just got a busy signal!).

"You got mail" sound...still have it. ;-)

Ally Mcbeal? I watched it. Fell in love with Portia de Rossi well before she ever came OUT and I ever knew she was gay. I had mixed feelings on the dancing baby. I liked it, but it freaked me out at the same time.

Fun topic.

LOL I still use the Meg Ryan you got mail wav too. Don't tell Angie cuz she'll time me out.

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Kobi

LOL I still use the Meg Ryan you got mail wav too. Don't tell Angie cuz she'll time me out.

I don't know why but that makes me feel unsafe.

[Cailin]

O M G..- anyone remember midi files? wow.. the original "music" of the internet 90's.



and remember when 1 gig of space was A L O T.. now we have terra bytes.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Cailin

O M G..- anyone remember midi files? wow.. the original "music" of the internet 90's.



and remember when 1 gig of space was A L O T.. now we have terra bytes.

Hey, my mac at the time was this:

Apple MAC Quadra 650 with a whopping 16MB of RAM and a special PowerPC chip to use for graphics. This was still the old Apple chips. The monitor was a huge 15 inch one with a 500MB drive. To install Aldus (BEFORE Adobe bought them) Pagemaker was 22 floppy disks and Adobe Photoshop was 25 (I still have them somewhere). I had a black and white 300 dpi scanner and network printer. The whole setup set me back $12,000 CDN.

And I was using nifty things called Iomega Zip drives and disks to submit my desktop publishing stuff to printers.

Originally Posted by DapperButch

*Dial up sound...for sure miss it...you guys who got kicked off when another call came in? All you needed to do was turn off call waiting and then you were ok (and the caller just got a busy signal!).

"You got mail" sound...still have it. ;-)

Ally Mcbeal? I watched it. Fell in love with Portia de Rossi well before she ever came OUT and I ever knew she was gay. I had mixed feelings on the dancing baby. I liked it, but it freaked me out at the same time.

Fun topic.

Ditto with the delectable Portia. My housemate and I had blue sheep pj's a la McBeal (I still have mine)