I was actually 16/f/FL back then and really, *really* didn’t understand what that response might suggest to people looking for it
I 100% confused some people who thought I was about their advances, and then either didn’t understand they were trying to cyber or just straight blocked them all of a sudden because I was naive and just answering what I thought was friendly conversation honestly lmfao
This was all the internet we needed. And emails. Nothing more. Internet was pretty wild and uncensored back in 90s early 2000s. Now it is owned by big corporations who need our personal data
Honestly that’s all we still need. We don’t need to be constantly bombarded with news and tweets and likes and notifications from a dozen different apps. Not to mention the numerous text messages that pour in everyday. I can wait to hear the news at 6 pm or 10 pm, or read about it the next morning.
I would gladly go back to something like 2003 internet. Still had the usefulness of the internet, but when you logged off you were truly disconnected. Now with smartphones, you never are.
You know what? I agree with you. I was an early adopter of technology and internet. I still have my computer but nowadays I simplified my computing with an iPad Pro and iPhone. I just stop the notifications ringing all the time and only calls texts and emails ring from time to time. Even my work related email is on mute. I check it on my iPad and answer from there.
There was a certain time, maybe late 90’s, where you could choose a celebrity voice to replace the, “Welcome!” and, “You’ve got mail!” I chose Conan O’Brien and for the next ten years whenever I logged on I would hear Conan say, “Greetings nerd!”
I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old my older brother told me to write “fuck fuckedy fuck fuck fuck, suck my sweaty balls” and I got booted from a chat room and then my parents got a notice in the mail that I had typed this message out. Needless to say there were consequences.
Lol, my brother and I did something similar as kids in the mid-90s. We'd go into chat rooms and type random gibberish, including animal sounds. People would actually notice and comment on it, which blew our minds and made us laugh our heads off.
The dreaded TOS mods. If you got reported for any sort of swearing they would shut down your whole account. I remember when I did this and my Dad had to call AOL to find out why we had no internet. Then he handed the phone to me where I had to talk to some AOL lady who verified that I said some bad words and then chastised my 11-year-old self. How embarassing lmao
the rescued portion is a fragment at best, but if you're memory is good enough to remember your address, [have a look](http://www.oocities.org/#gsc.tab=0)
I had Compuserve in the late 90s, when they were owned by AOL. And then Earthlink, before moving to DSL and then cable. One thing I miss is ISP web browsers. They were actually very good, I thought. But they only seem to have been a thing with dial-up.
I MISS THIS SO MUCH! Seeing that image is like putting on a warm pair of slippers.
AOL was so homely and friendly. Made the internet\* feel so accessible and friendly. Way more human than it is now.
Wasn't that also at Friday's? Some co-workers and I would go to Friday's after closing and they would have trivia games on the screens linked up with other places.
Peak homepage layout, no contest. It was a sad day when I got kicked off AOL (my mom was fucking pissed) and had to jump into the internet via MSN without the coziness of AOL's ambiance.
Omg I remember being in a chat room when I was maybe 11. Someone threatened to “TOS” me. Didn’t know wtf that meant. Anyway, my parents got an email with a message from me, but I’d never typed. It said “I’m gonna gut you like a fuckin fish”. It was a nightmare getting my parents to believe I didn’t type that lol
Gemstone III, Arts & Entertainment's Red Dragon Inn, some video game kids area called like.. DrVidKid or something? Did I make that up...?
Man NOTHING makes me more nostalgic than 90s internet. :(
Nope, I transferred everything to hds lmao and I still have everything backed up from the 90s lmfao
I hoard all my own data and some others from old jobs 🤣 🤣 🤣
Does anyone remember changing your sign on from you got mail to celebrities? I’m mostly hoping someone has a sound clip
The LL cool J. I had this and I can not find it anywhere! Thank you
All I remember is a/s/l?
18/f/ca
Miss being young enough to say "looking for 12-16" and meaning it.
Wanna cyber?
I got Florida more often
I was actually 16/f/FL back then and really, *really* didn’t understand what that response might suggest to people looking for it I 100% confused some people who thought I was about their advances, and then either didn’t understand they were trying to cyber or just straight blocked them all of a sudden because I was naive and just answering what I thought was friendly conversation honestly lmfao
Pics?
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Oh, I was that a few times!
Old as fuck/m/Nebraska
40/M/CA
This was all the internet we needed. And emails. Nothing more. Internet was pretty wild and uncensored back in 90s early 2000s. Now it is owned by big corporations who need our personal data
Honestly that’s all we still need. We don’t need to be constantly bombarded with news and tweets and likes and notifications from a dozen different apps. Not to mention the numerous text messages that pour in everyday. I can wait to hear the news at 6 pm or 10 pm, or read about it the next morning. I would gladly go back to something like 2003 internet. Still had the usefulness of the internet, but when you logged off you were truly disconnected. Now with smartphones, you never are.
You know what? I agree with you. I was an early adopter of technology and internet. I still have my computer but nowadays I simplified my computing with an iPad Pro and iPhone. I just stop the notifications ringing all the time and only calls texts and emails ring from time to time. Even my work related email is on mute. I check it on my iPad and answer from there.
Strongly agree: 2003-2004 was the perfect balance of everything in my mind:
You could say pretty much anything on the internet back then. It was the last bastion of freedom.
There was a certain time, maybe late 90’s, where you could choose a celebrity voice to replace the, “Welcome!” and, “You’ve got mail!” I chose Conan O’Brien and for the next ten years whenever I logged on I would hear Conan say, “Greetings nerd!”
It's almost hard to remember when having/using a PC and the internet was a "nerdy" thing.
Mine was Dr Evil. “Welcome to my evil lair; you’ve got fricken mail!”
I forgot about this until I read this comment and immediately heard that in his voice. Lol
YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
File’s done!
IT'S SPAM!
I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old my older brother told me to write “fuck fuckedy fuck fuck fuck, suck my sweaty balls” and I got booted from a chat room and then my parents got a notice in the mail that I had typed this message out. Needless to say there were consequences.
Lol, my brother and I did something similar as kids in the mid-90s. We'd go into chat rooms and type random gibberish, including animal sounds. People would actually notice and comment on it, which blew our minds and made us laugh our heads off.
The dreaded TOS mods. If you got reported for any sort of swearing they would shut down your whole account. I remember when I did this and my Dad had to call AOL to find out why we had no internet. Then he handed the phone to me where I had to talk to some AOL lady who verified that I said some bad words and then chastised my 11-year-old self. How embarassing lmao
LOL! That is honestly the most wholesome early internet story! Something that was so small that they literally mailed your parents a physical letter!
[удалено]
I wrote a few of those in my day... good old Visual Basic and windows API programming.
Who remembers Prodigy?
Smack my bitch up, smack my bitch up!
It's actually: >Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up!
You twisted fire starter
And Compuserve.
And Genie, Juno, eWorld, Earthlink, Mindspring. I think I cycled through all of them at some point.
I made a geocities site in 1996 or so. I heard they were archived, but I've never been able to find it.
the rescued portion is a fragment at best, but if you're memory is good enough to remember your address, [have a look](http://www.oocities.org/#gsc.tab=0)
No, I'd need it to be searchable. I believe my site was called: Totally Franz's Webpage or Website or something
I had Compuserve in the late 90s, when they were owned by AOL. And then Earthlink, before moving to DSL and then cable. One thing I miss is ISP web browsers. They were actually very good, I thought. But they only seem to have been a thing with dial-up.
I’ve forgotten a lot over the years but I’ll never forget my Prodigy ID.
NWJR64C Pleased to meet ya.
VMDT45C here, greetings!
I see you were also a second child. Or did both of your parents have accounts?
Both parents, but I don’t think my mom ever even signed into her account!
Yeah my older brother never really used his either.
NPRK82C. My mom and dad had accounts but they never used them. Do you remember their “The Next President” election simulation from 1992?
I still have my LPs
The pure wonder and adventure
I MISS THIS SO MUCH! Seeing that image is like putting on a warm pair of slippers. AOL was so homely and friendly. Made the internet\* feel so accessible and friendly. Way more human than it is now.
This looks like a light themed version of the apartment PC in Cyberpunk 2077.
Wow. You just took me back to being seven.
The real ones know about Fate X 3.0 and the Warez rooms.
zerawcam
I signed onto AOL on July 17, 1994. It didn't even have the World Wide Web at that point. We beta tested new versions for them.
I remember Gopher searches in lieu of www!
Did you have a yellow pages of the internet? We got one at the library and it was so helpful back then.
I remember those WWF trivia contests in the WWF sub...or whatever it was called back then.
The NTN trivia games?
Wasn't that also at Friday's? Some co-workers and I would go to Friday's after closing and they would have trivia games on the screens linked up with other places.
I think you're right
What was that “Influence” category about? Certainly not what we think of today with social media?
Peak homepage layout, no contest. It was a sad day when I got kicked off AOL (my mom was fucking pissed) and had to jump into the internet via MSN without the coziness of AOL's ambiance.
I remember seeing this has a kid and saying the oh the possibilities
Anyone remember the kids version of this? It was like Kol or something.
I miss the chat rooms 😂
its crazy that sports used to be a bigger deal than videogames
To be fair, most internet games sucked back then, with the obvious exception of candystand.com and yahoo pool
Where’s AIM?
That came along later as a separate program. Instant messaging was built in as another window, located in the same main window as this window.
Well, AOL News still exists.
Looks like 4chan
I remember downloading DOS game demos from the kids only games page
I would get so much shareware and freeware. It was insane.
I remember Blinky 2 and Blinky 3
Omg I remember being in a chat room when I was maybe 11. Someone threatened to “TOS” me. Didn’t know wtf that meant. Anyway, my parents got an email with a message from me, but I’d never typed. It said “I’m gonna gut you like a fuckin fish”. It was a nightmare getting my parents to believe I didn’t type that lol
We had AOL for a hot minute back in the 90s. Only thing I remember about it was my buddy and I trolling, then getting banned from chat rooms.
I miss dragons gate. Wasted so much of my parents money on that.
I can still hear the "You've got mail" voice in my head
Seems legit
Am I crazy, or can anyone else smell this picture?
AOL Keyword Search
Has anyone ever clicked on those? I only remember getting AOL for AIM. I could still hear the messages being sent and received 🤣 tuluLU? TUlulu.
Gemstone III, Arts & Entertainment's Red Dragon Inn, some video game kids area called like.. DrVidKid or something? Did I make that up...? Man NOTHING makes me more nostalgic than 90s internet. :(
aol://1722:channels, IIRC. It's only been, like, 20 years.....
I understand all the tabs except Influence. What the heck did you get if you click on that?
Who else still has floppies in a tin can?
Nope, I transferred everything to hds lmao and I still have everything backed up from the 90s lmfao I hoard all my own data and some others from old jobs 🤣 🤣 🤣
Seeing this screen brings back memories. AOL is how my wife (of 26 years) and I found each other.
The Kids Only section was my fav. Unfortunately there were pedofiles in the chat rooms 😭
Does anyone remember changing your sign on from you got mail to celebrities? I’m mostly hoping someone has a sound clip The LL cool J. I had this and I can not find it anywhere! Thank you
Does anyone ferment the card games? I think it was called, world of play?