Remember the days when [pic]

[Scott McD]

[CaptainHowdy]

Those were kinda exciting days I have to admit . . .

[just a punk]

Yes, I do. The first time I've discovered the Internet for myself was something like 1994 or 1995...

[Bladewire]

↑↑↑ Still stuck back in the 90's

[Rochard]

I remember these days. This was when you had to have enough intelligence to build your computer - yourself, by hand. You started with planning everything out, the tower, the mother board, the drives.... Then off to Fry's Electronics you would go!

I remember I did my college thesis on computer towers - the history, differences, and changes we would see in the future.

Those were the good days when only smart people were on line.

[Sly]

LOL.

I remember getting home from school and trying to login to AOL.

If I got home early, before 3, I could get on most of the time.

If I got home even just a little late, after 3, I was totally screwed. Could be at least an hour, if not more, to login.

Eventually I just bought a line of my own and stayed logged in all day, LOL.

[Bladewire]

I remember these days. This was when you had to have enough intelligence to build your computer - yourself, by hand. You started with planning everything out, the tower, the mother board, the drives.... Then off to Fry's Electronics you would go!

I remember I did my college thesis on computer towers - the history, differences, and changes we would see in the future.

Those were the good days when only smart people were on line.

I remember at least once a month having to stand in the long return line at Fry's returning failed 100mb hard drives. Click click click click click click

[2MuchMark]

Get off my lawn!

[Bladewire]

get off my lawn!

Omg!!!!!

[dillfly2000]

I once attempted to shotgun two 56k modems together out of desperation. But realized I needed a second phone line.

[jigga]

Those were the good days when only smart people were on line.

This is so true... the myspace and facebook eras ushered in the masses and ruined a lot of what was appealing about the early internet.

[Bladewire]

↑↑↑ Truth +AOL

[CurrentlySober]

The Good Old Days

[slapass]

I remember when you would really surf. Right after we got bandwidth and the www was created, people would just randomly move through the web.

[redwhiteandblue]

The days before Google, when you just typed in random domain names to see if someone had built a porn site on them.

[Look Chang]

Nostalgia when you hold us ...

[rayadp05]

Yes indeed. LOL

[Mr Pheer]

[P_RABID]

Yes, i miss that 56kb connection sound lol

[SBJ]

My first pc was an IBM PC jr in 85'..


I didn't get online till 98' and that was on a web tv that I used while I saved and bought pc parts one at a time. It took about 6 mos cause I was a broke factory worker.

[just a punk]

I remember these days. This was when you had to have enough intelligence to build your computer - yourself, by hand. You started with planning everything out, the tower, the mother board, the drives.... Then off to Fry's Electronics you would go!

To be honest it has never needed any intelligence. Even office women did that. Don't know about the USA but here in Russia my wife was a 22 year old economist (economist is a person with a high economic education - not programist or engineer) and she was assembling computers for the office purposes.

Personally I still do it even now in 2018 because I can configure my hardware much more effective than commercial companies that sell turn key systems

[brassmonkey]

oregon trail game i played

[yuu.design]

oh man, yeah, i remember that, and make me feel like an veteran :S

[just a punk]

oh man, yeah, i remember that, and make me feel like an veteran :S

Seems like we all here are a sort of these...

[J. Falcon]

The days before Google, when you just typed in random domain names to see if someone had built a porn site on them.

Www porn dot com was the first address I ever typed. Either that or sex dot com

[just a punk]

Mine was altavista.com... and hotbot.com of course

[Nick85]

hope that I am not the only one who remembers this

[marlboroack]

Fuck yeah

[Scott McD]

This is so true... the myspace and facebook eras ushered in the masses and ruined a lot of what was appealing about the early internet.

Amen to that...