Does anyone else remember the early days of the internet?

*CyberCubed* · 05-16-2015, 01:03 PM

The internet started to become mainstream around 1995-1996, does anyone else remember those early days of the internet?

This is the days of dial-up modems, when it took 10 minutes to load a single page, when watching a 5 minute video took 1 hour to download. This is before youtube, facebook, myspace, twitter, tumblr existed...there was no social media.

The days of geocities and yahoo chat rooms, ebay was just starting up. Anyone else around from the very beginning? When the internet was slow as hell and everyone was trying to start up their first website? Its hard to believe many of us were able to survive those days.

The idea of it taking 1 hour or more just to download a 20 minute video sounds absurd now, but back in those days that's what it was. There was no streaming, you had to use quicktime or realplayer.

05-16-2015, 01:03 PM	#1
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,871	Does anyone else remember the early days of the internet? The internet started to become mainstream around 1995-1996, does anyone else remember those early days of the internet? This is the days of dial-up modems, when it took 10 minutes to load a single page, when watching a 5 minute video took 1 hour to download. This is before youtube, facebook, myspace, twitter, tumblr existed...there was no social media. The days of geocities and yahoo chat rooms, ebay was just starting up. Anyone else around from the very beginning? When the internet was slow as hell and everyone was trying to start up their first website? Its hard to believe many of us were able to survive those days. The idea of it taking 1 hour or more just to download a 20 minute video sounds absurd now, but back in those days that's what it was. There was no streaming, you had to use quicktime or realplayer.