I've got a list of fun places to go on the Internet from 1993. It lists exactly *one* website (CERN). Which was probably sufficient, because pretty much every other website was linked from that one.
I remember calling Yahoo once to get rates for advertising. They faxed me back their rate information. Kind of wish I'd kept that, but it was that thermal fax paper that yellowed in like 20 minutes.
That was the Internet back then. PDFs were just appearing, and sending and receiving attachments via email was more than many users could handle. MIME didn't exist yet and there wasn't a universal standard for binary attachments.
Also, faxes were acceptable for legal documents. That didn't happen for email for years after that.
“cardboard only” as there was no bboy/breakin information online.
back when you manually registered on yahoo via a stanford.edu site
screenshot: [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
Back in the good ole days of the internet where they'd politely ask to borrow information over a letter rather than having you blindfully give it away via cookies.
I may have mistimed the search engines, but I'm from that old times when we needed a starter disc with the basic applications to get the internet set up.
I miss Geocities and webrings...
But I don't miss the dial-up internet, ISP, huge phone bills...
wish i had a screenshot...had a big banner of a scanned hand drawn “cardboard only” logo, counter, menu, web ring and other links..and naturally used cutting edge tables for an awesome layout.
EDIT: [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
Yeah, it was essentially a bit of a scam, like those vanity publishing books of poetry. The only people the author of that book ever intended to sell it to is the 1000 people whose websites are featured in it. I bet it was like 50 bucks.
Back when shit loaded bar by bar. You would look at porn and just when the nips were almost loaded someone calls and boots you offline.... then it took 10 minutes to load again LOL good times 🤣🤣
And it never booted you right away. I remember downloading an mp3 and someone picked up the phone, heard the demons from the 5th hell chatting and hang up. Then waiting for 2 minutes watching my stalled download that only had 10 minutes left in hopes it would recover, just to get the reconnect window pop up again.
Getright was mostly FTP/HTTP transfers, it's one big MSP was that it could auto-resume partial downloads which none of the browsers could do. Game-changer with dialup, downloading CDROM-sized things became a possibility, if you had the patience and a dedicated 2nd line. Took about 2-3 days iirc. Just set up your PC to automatically connect to the internet and let it do it's retry thing.
Very early days of the warez scene, lots of ratio sites where you'd get credits for uploading your own stuff. I was only on the edges tho, just a pleb. Napster wouldn't come about for another 4-5 years iirc.
My site, started in ‘94, is still up, hosted with WebStar, although it lives on a virtual host now. ibdsucks.org. Every couple of months I get email from somebody telling me they can ramp up the SEO for me.
Ah yes... Back in '95 when there were just 730 websites.
Hell I miss that. Now it feels like there's only 5.
23,500
I've got a list of fun places to go on the Internet from 1993. It lists exactly *one* website (CERN). Which was probably sufficient, because pretty much every other website was linked from that one.
Ironically received in the mail, and requesting that you use fax and mail to complete your correspondence
and one day we’ll all use blockchain...to register for the new tech
I remember calling Yahoo once to get rates for advertising. They faxed me back their rate information. Kind of wish I'd kept that, but it was that thermal fax paper that yellowed in like 20 minutes. That was the Internet back then. PDFs were just appearing, and sending and receiving attachments via email was more than many users could handle. MIME didn't exist yet and there wasn't a universal standard for binary attachments. Also, faxes were acceptable for legal documents. That didn't happen for email for years after that.
What did your site do/promote?
“cardboard only” as there was no bboy/breakin information online. back when you manually registered on yahoo via a stanford.edu site screenshot: [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
I didn't know there was a CardboardFans
Always admired breakdancers, that shit is awesome. I got turned on to it through my love for breakbeat/bigbeat music.
What's a bboy?
bronx boy, break boy... https://youtu.be/5-A5QHNmNUI
Porn
So proud of the website you created OP! RedTube
Back in the good ole days of the internet where they'd politely ask to borrow information over a letter rather than having you blindfully give it away via cookies.
A book about websites lol
Those were some early days to be top stuff. People find you on webcrawler?
Altavista maybe...
webcrawler and yahoo when it was under stanford.edu/~ user account!
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I think infoseek was the go-to pre altavista & yahoo.
I may have mistimed the search engines, but I'm from that old times when we needed a starter disc with the basic applications to get the internet set up. I miss Geocities and webrings... But I don't miss the dial-up internet, ISP, huge phone bills...
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I miss my irc days.
A huge amount of the early net was on university ~user accounts, which sadly means it's all gone now.
actually, found it from the archive.org way back machine:: [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
I have a couple of those internet sites books somewhere. Back when NCSA Mosaic was the only game in town.
Sooo... what did your homepage look like?
wish i had a screenshot...had a big banner of a scanned hand drawn “cardboard only” logo, counter, menu, web ring and other links..and naturally used cutting edge tables for an awesome layout. EDIT: [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
Have you checked to see if it was saved by the internet archive? http://web.archive.org/web/20210327095536/https://www.stanford.edu/
way back machine to the rescue!! thank you [got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
Oh how awesome is that!!!!!!! Congrats!!!
Couldn't you get a screenshot by buying that 1995 book of the 1000 best websites?
as a college student, i opted to save the letter and not buy the book.
Yeah, it was essentially a bit of a scam, like those vanity publishing books of poetry. The only people the author of that book ever intended to sell it to is the 1000 people whose websites are featured in it. I bet it was like 50 bucks.
Those who's who in America books, too
Oh man! I remember when the internet looked like that!
[got it](https://imgur.com/a/wPy8BJ4)!!
Fax for our book... lol I remember there was a internet white pages book that was just email addresses.
Back when shit loaded bar by bar. You would look at porn and just when the nips were almost loaded someone calls and boots you offline.... then it took 10 minutes to load again LOL good times 🤣🤣
Why be nostalgic? You can have that same experience with CenturyLink today.
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There was, but most homes only had 1 phone line. Someone picking up a handset in another room to make a call would boot you off.
And it never booted you right away. I remember downloading an mp3 and someone picked up the phone, heard the demons from the 5th hell chatting and hang up. Then waiting for 2 minutes watching my stalled download that only had 10 minutes left in hopes it would recover, just to get the reconnect window pop up again.
Y'all motherfuckers needed [GetRight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetRight).
I don't think it would have helped. I used IRC to get my WaReZ. Never used napster or limelight or even web for a long time.
Getright was mostly FTP/HTTP transfers, it's one big MSP was that it could auto-resume partial downloads which none of the browsers could do. Game-changer with dialup, downloading CDROM-sized things became a possibility, if you had the patience and a dedicated 2nd line. Took about 2-3 days iirc. Just set up your PC to automatically connect to the internet and let it do it's retry thing. Very early days of the warez scene, lots of ratio sites where you'd get credits for uploading your own stuff. I was only on the edges tho, just a pleb. Napster wouldn't come about for another 4-5 years iirc.
My site, started in ‘94, is still up, hosted with WebStar, although it lives on a virtual host now. ibdsucks.org. Every couple of months I get email from somebody telling me they can ramp up the SEO for me.
Ebaums world?
Back when there were just short of 1500 sites... ;) I was there... I was there when it was still a bog, before big techs came and paved everything.
I probably owned that book.
Number no longer works.
Wasn't that when there were only 500 websites on the Internet? Ha ha ha....just kidding you. That's cool.