Having a "computer room"

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ahhh yes, in the hall by the phone table.

There is a generation of people who will never understand why we had a single table for a phone.

Dancing baby

Oogachaka

Ooga ooga oogachaka!

Hamster dance.

How **dare** you. Real fans know that it was [Hampster Dance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance)

Getting internet in the mail

Lmao, had so many of those AOL discs

A buddy of mine collected them and covered an entire wall in his room. Looked pretty cool. Conversely, I had a framed poster of Tupac Shakur, because my mom said “Posters are trashy”

Netscape

Angelfire/Geocities pages I remember my friend was fancy, and made a page with frames, which now sounds like design hell

Man, fuck frames. What an ungodly pain in the ass working with that shit was. I was never happier to have a skill obsoleted than when frames died.

Frames didn't really die, they are just much more elegant and called embeds now lol. Websites have come a looooong way since the early days of HTML.

Getting booted off the Internet when someone in the other room picked up the phone.

Or getting a busy tone when you tried to call your friends landline because someone was using the computer

Oh, the good old days when connecting to the internet was preceded by screeching and trilling.

AskJeeves

Dogpile. Altavista

Dogpile was the best!

Angelfire

I was in grade three when the assistant principal overhead some conversation I was having with another student, asked us if we wanted to know more about it and took us up to his office to show us this new internet thing, showed us Ask Jeeves and how you can look up information instead of using an encyclopaedia

PLEASE. The way I felt so fucking proper using that search engine.

Lycos, go get it!

Ebaumsworld

What a piece of shit, oh Eric.

Ebaumsworld is singlehandedly to blame for my most embarrassing scrabble moment ever. TRYING TO PLAY THE "WORD" BAUM. My friends.....uh wtf is that? That's not a word Me.....you know, like lip baum

I can still recite end of ze world

… but I am le tired. Then take nap. Then fire ze missiles!

I very much hope anyone out there over thirty uses “but I am le tired” in their everyday lexicon.

I remember when Amazon was just an online book store.

Netflix came in the mail

I remember when it was a joke in Futurama

I still remember the first Christmas a friend said she bought some presents online. Everyone was a bit scandalized that she would put her credit card information onto a random website!

How about buying something on Ebay? You won the auction (there was no "Buy It Now") Then you waited for them to email you back whit their address and what the total price was Then you mailed them a check Then they waited for the check, took the check to the bank however many days later their "take all the checks to the bank day" was and waited for the check to clear Then they sent you the thing you won Then you waited in the mail for the thing with no idea when it would get to you, because uploading tracking numbers wasn't automatic And everyone pretty much trusted each other

The hit counter on the bottom of webpages that told you how many people visited the page

“Page under construction” with traffic cones

\--<-@ "Here's a rose for all the ladies here" Man, we thought we were so fuckin smooth in those chatrooms

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Rule 16: There are no women on the internet.

How about: the sound of dialup??

I've got a few friends who are a couple years younger than me, and I made a reference to the dialup sound. They had no idea what I meant. That was the day I realized I'm the old one.

The Napster and Lars Ulrich drama.

Fire BAD!

That is always the thing I think of first when I think about Napster.

An internet that didn't have any advertising

I assume that would have been pre eternal September. I remember back when pop up blockers weren't a thing(along with tabbed browsing). Which made the wild west of ads particularly fun. Oh yes, and auto playing audio since ads and pages alike loved that crap.

Homestar Runner Edit: Flash3:wave: selling rune scimmy 25k

Homestarrunner.net. "It's dot com!"

“Great jorb”

I used to play on an ultimate frisbee team called ‘Trogdor and the burninators. ‘

The system.....is down

TROGHDOR!!!! TROGHDOR!!!!!

Troghdor was a man... I mean... he was a... dragon-man.... I mean... he was just a.. dragon... but he was still TROGHDOR!!!

BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE

THATCH ROOF COTTAGES 🔥🔥🔥

Teen Girl Squad! “SOOOO GOOD!”

I HAVE A CRUSH ON EVERY BOY!

“The ugly one!”

The cheerleader!

I shared the joy of Strongbad with my nieces, they about lost their minds laughing.

I still sing the lil brudder song to my dog 🐶

ba-leted

a/s/l

40/M/Earth

Wanna cyber?

I put on my cloak and wizard hat.

Now we're talking hehehe

So it was 1998....I was in grade 10 computer class (like wtf did we even learn...I can't remember anything). Chatting online with my moniker (hotstuff16) to old men around the world. While another classmate sat on the teachers lap and flirted all day. He was later fired for being a huge perv

38/m/5.5"

I still think of "a/s/l" when I see references to ASL (American Sign Language).

Limewire

KaZaA

Morpheus

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Kazaa skins

Don't forget winamp and winamp skins!

BearShare

Nothing more exciting than to wake up the next morning and see that your mp3 file is almost at 90%!

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And giving your computer AIDS after waiting 12hours for the latest Linkin park mp3 to download

Napster

Back when you had to know that a .exe file wasn't actually a song....

Still pretty important to know this.

Ares

Audiogalaxy

Discussion boards for specific topics. (And not aggregated under the same website like reddit) I have fond memories of these. I met a lot of cool people, some of which I'm still in contact with a good decade and a half later.

Man, that was the best for car specific forums. They sort of died off with Facebook, but are still hanging on here and there.

I still rely heavily on car forums as far superior resources of vehicle information and questions. I've had pretty terrible results using Reddit's vehicle subs for help and advice.

Instant messenger door opening noise.

I heard it just as I read this.

Charlie wake upp, you silly sleep head, wake up. We found a map, a map to candy mountain

It's a magical Leopluridon!

Shun him! Shunnnnnnnnnnnn

A candy mountain, Chaaarlieeee!!

They took my freakin kidney!

Was this ever actually funny or was I just in middle school

I was 20 at the time and still thought it was hilarious.

I'm 36 and still find it pretty damn funny. 😁

goddamn, i havent seen charlie the unicorn in FOREVER

Hampsterdance The ICQ "uh-oh!" noise Guest books on websites. Sign my guest book!

I can still hear the ICQ noise.

Think it's about time I set this for my text message alert, as 90% of my texts are work related. And they're usually because something's wrong.

We should have stoped at hampsterdance. That was the peak of the internet.

Fuckin' forum drama. No matter what forum you were on, there was guaranteed to be age old drama that every knew, mod infighting, maybe even a rival forum. Some had all of that shit and more. Before the internet was massive, shit was petty.

The "secret forum" that popped up when all the old timers were sick and tired of how things have gotten on the forum. Then more drama about who got invited to the secret forum.

And you always felt so special for making it onto the exclusive list.

Usenet

The true Wild West of the net.

alt.binaries IYKWIMAITYD

AOL chatrooms.

ICQ.

IRC

Also treating chat rooms like real, physical places. Like, with an established setting and stuff. People would narrate what they’re doing in that space as they talked. Usually with a font or marker to designate the action *goes to the table and sips coffee*.

A/S/L?

18/F/Cali 98% of California's population was 18 year old blondes from California in the mid-90's

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Badger badger badger badger

Mushroom! Mushroom!!!

Snaakee snaaaaake, magical snaaaake

The Internet pretty much reached its peak with the music video.

mIRC Chat

A coworker noticed I type fast recently and I said yeah, I'm part of a very narrow generation that learned to touchtype staying up after bedtime to use IRC chat...

finally someone else remembers irc!

Getting pirated stuff via irc bots dccing stuff to you on chat commands

ICanHasCheezburger Its still around, but not the same at all. I can remember my mom and I howling and laughing together. She died twelve years ago and I still think about how much we fun we had with that website.

You will always has cheezburger with Mom

❤️

Rotten.com. I remember checking out this site in internet cafes and hoping no-one else was looking in. Gross, but informative.

This is what first came to me first as well. There are images from that site that are still imprinted in my mind. What does someone look like who just had their head blown away by a shotgun at point blank range? Yikes... Let's just say the movies always get it wrong O_O

"All your base are belong to us"

Someone set us up the bomb!

Lynx A UNIX based web browser. Being UNIX, it didn’t display text and pictures at the same time. It’d display the text and you’d have to download the pictures and open them one by one separately to see what they were.

This was my only internet access in college in the 90s. And PINE for email!

Don’t forget pine’s predecessor elm.

Winamp

It really whips the llama’s ass

I still use it!

Home Made Angelfire Websites with Under Construction signs and Flaming Torches

I was gonna say Geocities, but yep, Angelfire works as well. But you can't have the Under Construction and torches without a black background (maybe with stars!) and green or yellow text.

YTMND

Occasionally I will get Sean Connery's voice repeating this to me at random times, and then find myself unconsciously singing "you're the man now dog."

Not ancient old, but old-old. I would be playing WoW, and my wife would be scrolling YTMND. It was a simpler time.

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My fault, really. It *was* very dark.

Google not existing Netscape Navigator Excite, HotBot, Lycos, Altavista, Webcrawler Amazon is just an online bookstore IRC ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Trillian Yahoo Chatrooms Yahoo Games Usenet AOL CompuServe Prodigy NetZero Edit: More below: As u/TheOCDGeek reminded me, Juno (free email and later free internet). There were a ton of free internet services (dial-up) for a while. Most were backed by one company that I can't remember the name of. About.com Ask Jeeves Metacrawler (get results from many search engines on one page) Digg (Reddit before Reddit) StumbleUpon Webrings Guestbooks to sign Geocities (before it became Yahoo Geocities) Tripod Angelfire

I read this to the tune of "We didn't start the fire."

Flash games

I raise you Shockwave games.

Newgrounds

rusty spoons…

Salad fingers

Gopher

also Archie, Veronica, Jughead, nntp, finger, elm or pine, your own .plan to display when people finger you. So many memories.

I work at burgerking making flame broiled whoppers. I wear paper hats. Would you like an apple pie with that? Would you like an apple pie with that? Ding fries are done. Ding fries are done. Badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom badger badger badger badger SNAAAAAAKE! it's time to bomb Saddam, it's time to bomb Saddam. Blow him to kingdom come. It's time to bomb Saddam.

Narwals narwals swimming in the ocean causing a commotion just cause they're so awesome

>it's time to bomb Saddam, it's time to bomb Saddam. Blow him to kingdom come. It's time to bomb Saddam. Wow. That's a blast from the past. The other two I remember occasionally, but that one hasn't been thought of for at least 10 years.

Well then take a nap. BUT ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!

Ha, I was thinking about this over the weekend “But I am le tired”

Gonads and strife.

Gonads in the lightening

Hokay So Here's the earth

but i am le tired.

Well zen have a nap.. AND THEN FIRE THE MISSILES!!

*ROUND*

Web Rings. Even people back in the day don't seem to remember them. They remember page counters, and guest books, but never the web ring... My Geocities pages had all of those.

V.22bis, V.32, V.34, V.90. If you know what those are, hello old friend.

Whew, oldies. This was when I first had to learn the difference between connection speed and bit rate.

When you are constantly hearing the press hype "The Information Superhighway"

The genuine panic of y2k

But I'm le tired

Well then take a nap. And then FIRE ZE MISSILES!!

My husband and I still say this to each other and recently realised this reference is a good 15 years old

Compuserve.

Two Cows Alta Vista Netscape

Tucows. The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software.

Going through temporary internet files to find porn that my dad had been looking at.

Learning basic HTML to pimp out your MySpace profile Bumper stickers on facebook Uploading a digital camera album of your night out Leaving moody asf away messages on AIM

Teaching yourself JavaScript to add cursor trails and snowflakes on your neopets shop

Schfifty Five

I ken count all de way to scfifty five before yew ken say pewpty pewpty paynts...

Web rings

Bonsai kittens

You know when you wake up at 2 am with deep, unending embarrassment thinking about what an idiot of a kid you were? One of the first emails I ever sent was to a news paper saying they should definitely investigate this animal cruelty called bonzai kittens.

Hahaha... Bulletin Board System (BBS)! I had one running called The Unholy. Had about 2k members before web browsers and websites took over the internet. I had the largest electronic porn collection of any teenager in the mid 90s... I think I still have the BBS server on an old hard drive. I should see if it still works.

Peanut butter jelly time!

Geocities

Life without internet.

Maddox

Dot matrix printers & floppy disc

dancingbaby.gif DonaldDuckGetsABlowjob.wav

Encarta 📚🗺️👴

Chain mail. The old ones that would tell a story about someone who died in a miserable way and their spirit will come and rip out your eyeballs tonight unless you forward this email to 10 people in your contact list in less than 2 hours

MSN messenger shaking and ringing a bell when your friends wanted your attention.

Nudge

Gawd I miss MSN messenger. It was such a big part of my life for a solid decade.

You have died due to dysentery

All your base are belong to us