what do you miss about the mid-90's internet?

[nageov3t]

sure, there was no google or youtube, but geocities.com was basically a huge, free porno site, there were no pop-ups or annoying flash ads, and midis as far as the eye could see

 

[Ika]

I liked the no-ads part. No clutter, either.

 

[HN]

hot deals -- reel.com? valueamerica? :laugh:

 

[KLin]

Barren Realms Elite

 

[adlep]

Hamster Dance!

 

[DeadByDawn]

In the late 90's the average IQ on eBay seemed much higher than it is now.

 

[radioouman]

Ethernet and FTP in the dorms!

Oh and scour.net

 

[DeadByDawn]

Originally posted by: radioouman

Oh and scour.net.

Yeah, i forgot about scour. That was great while it lasted.

 

[Vic]

I don't miss dial-up.

 

[vi edit]

The abscense of advertisements bombarding you every waking second you are on the 'net.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Nuttin' really.

 

[BD2003]

Definitely the hot deals. Todays deals are nothing compared to mid/late 90s. Hell, back in the day, you could even get gear for good prices on the fs/ft forum here. Now its like 10% off retail.

 

[DougK62]

Only smart people were on the internet regularly. Much more enjoyable.

 

[BlancoNino]

I really miss dial-up.

 

[chuckywang]

Shoot...what was that place called?

What sort of software did Audiogalaxy use to let us d/l music? It was fast and awesome and all you needed to do was look up an artist/song title and click on the box. Bam, you were d/l'ing that mp3 right away!

Was there anything before Audiogalaxy?

 

[aidanjm]

I think it was slightly later than mid 90s, but I used to think it was cool having news piped to my desktop via Pointcast (which was the next big thing for 5 minutes then faded away)

also, Netscape Navigator was the default choice for browsers back then (IE was crap and firefox wasn't invented)

Alta Vista was the best search engine

average IQ in online communities was higher, back then. The easier it gets to be online, the more the internet is flooded with stupid people.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: loki8481
sure, there was no google or youtube, but geocities.com was basically a huge, free porno site, there were no pop-ups or annoying flash ads, and midis as far as the eye could see

I think there is an internet time machine/ web history project that lets you go back and look at snapshots of parts of the web from years past

 

[Homerboy]

they money I was making off of other people's/companies lofty dreams and ambitions... suckers.

 

[madworm]

anyone ever played zork and online mIRC stuff?

 

[Motorheader]

Some of the proprietary software front-ends for Internet access were actually pretty cool.

Netscape Versions 2.x - 3.04 Gold.
Unfettered Newsgroup access - some Internet service providers used to promote the number of Newsgroups they carried as a selling point.
Spider and web-crawler for searching. Even Gopher.
Fewer advertisements - Pop-up's, pop-unders, hi-jacking, and re-direction - where the hell does it end.

Sometimes I yearn for the days long-ago days of BBS. Then I think of how much fun CS:S is in a group of 50 and downloading Linux ISO's at the same time.

 

[Electric Amish]

The original ATOT...

 

[swtethan]

everything was optimized for dial up?

 

[FiddleDD]

Wow from Compuserve

Value America was towards the late 90's...but boy do I miss the hot deals from Value America!!!

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: madworm
anyone ever played zork and online mIRC stuff?

I had a crush on a guy who was addicted to that kind of IRC gaming.

 

[oboeguy]

Value America, of course, though not their lame radio ads. Also I miss the fact that there was no such thing as a Flash site. HTML FTW!