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Wow. I was thinking about it earlier tonight and man I can barely even remember what day-to-day life was like BEFORE the internet. I just remember a lot of Nick at Nite being involved haha. This is a thread where you can post what you did before the net (if you can remember it) or memories of getting online for the first time and the various things you did online... heres i goes then...
I got the internet for the first time waaaaayyyy back in 1998. Our first computer. A compaq presario haha. I remember the first time we got on we didn't know it would make those weird noises on the phone line if you picked it up and we thought something was wrong with the phones. Then I remember we were afraid to just turn the computer off when it froze WHILE connected to the internet. How laughable is all that now haha.
I remember the first website I ever went to was GamePro.com. Because at the time I loved that magazine and always would see advertisements for their website but I had never been online at all before. (We used AOL 4.0 at the time lol, I wonder what version it's at now... I wouldn't touch AOL with a ten foot pole these days)...
Anyway. I remember I got into Ocarina of Time on N64 and visited "The Odyssey of Hyrule" every day for like months after the game came out. Then I remember I got into a Star Wars phase around 1999-2003 when the prequels came out. I even worked for some Star Wars websites like JediNet.com haha. Slowly but surely I remember discovering more ways to waste my time. It seems odd to even think about connecting via phone line now. I remember how amazed I was with Napster and the ability to just download ANYTHING I COULD THINK OF! hahaha. I even ran into the other room to show my mom. I remember thinking IRC was awesome. Then AIM came along when we moved to mainly using IE.
I remember registering an Angelfire and Tripod page and at Homestead.com where you didn't need to KNOW HTML to make a page suck ass. lol. My first website was a place to download MIDI FILES hahahaha. Does anyone even USE angelfire and tripod pages anymore? I remember when search engines were littered with those things.
In fact, it's hard to remember how I wasted so much time on websites BEFORE the huge time wasters that are Myspace, Facebook and the internet's most awesome website... Youtube. I mean, really, Youtube is awesome and I can't believe nobody thought of it sooner. I remember having dragon ball z music videos I made in Windows Movie Maker with no place to host them. Brilliant that we can now waste hours of time watching old episodes of Duck Tales or playthroughs of video games or whatever crazy things we can think of. Like "Unboxing" the latest gadget. haha.
And then Wikipedia. Oh my lord. I'm so glad that was invented. While of course, not 100% accurate, you can't deny the wealth of information readily available to you. They've got wikis for specific stuff too I mean, really... Wookipedia for Star Wars or Weezerpedia for =w=.
In fact, I just realized I've almost never in my life used the internet for anything important. haha. Ahhh that's probably not completely true. I'm sure I've learned SOMETHING useful by now.
I got the internet for the first time waaaaayyyy back in 1998. Our first computer. A compaq presario haha. I remember the first time we got on we didn't know it would make those weird noises on the phone line if you picked it up and we thought something was wrong with the phones. Then I remember we were afraid to just turn the computer off when it froze WHILE connected to the internet. How laughable is all that now haha.
I remember the first website I ever went to was GamePro.com. Because at the time I loved that magazine and always would see advertisements for their website but I had never been online at all before. (We used AOL 4.0 at the time lol, I wonder what version it's at now... I wouldn't touch AOL with a ten foot pole these days)...
Anyway. I remember I got into Ocarina of Time on N64 and visited "The Odyssey of Hyrule" every day for like months after the game came out. Then I remember I got into a Star Wars phase around 1999-2003 when the prequels came out. I even worked for some Star Wars websites like JediNet.com haha. Slowly but surely I remember discovering more ways to waste my time. It seems odd to even think about connecting via phone line now. I remember how amazed I was with Napster and the ability to just download ANYTHING I COULD THINK OF! hahaha. I even ran into the other room to show my mom. I remember thinking IRC was awesome. Then AIM came along when we moved to mainly using IE.
I remember registering an Angelfire and Tripod page and at Homestead.com where you didn't need to KNOW HTML to make a page suck ass. lol. My first website was a place to download MIDI FILES hahahaha. Does anyone even USE angelfire and tripod pages anymore? I remember when search engines were littered with those things.
In fact, it's hard to remember how I wasted so much time on websites BEFORE the huge time wasters that are Myspace, Facebook and the internet's most awesome website... Youtube. I mean, really, Youtube is awesome and I can't believe nobody thought of it sooner. I remember having dragon ball z music videos I made in Windows Movie Maker with no place to host them. Brilliant that we can now waste hours of time watching old episodes of Duck Tales or playthroughs of video games or whatever crazy things we can think of. Like "Unboxing" the latest gadget. haha.
And then Wikipedia. Oh my lord. I'm so glad that was invented. While of course, not 100% accurate, you can't deny the wealth of information readily available to you. They've got wikis for specific stuff too I mean, really... Wookipedia for Star Wars or Weezerpedia for =w=.
In fact, I just realized I've almost never in my life used the internet for anything important. haha. Ahhh that's probably not completely true. I'm sure I've learned SOMETHING useful by now.