Do You Ever Miss The "Old" Internet

uh ... thanks 4 the tip

christine green leafy dragon indigo

yeah, the new animal collective's leaked

I remember my buddy having Prodigy back in, I think, 1994 or so. I was blown away when he showed me how he can "chat" with people from around the US. I also remember they charged by the minute, so we couldn't stay on for too long, lol.

Hey, I've been here for ages....

I went to Youtube to find actual '69-early Seventies Internet footage (some exists) and didn't find any, but I did find this:
<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7duyl0ZZ5BQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&";></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7duyl0ZZ5BQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

I got in mondo trouble with my parents for running up the Prodigy bill roleplaying on the teen boards. Just after that I remember the Sierra/Leisure Suit Larry online service, playing poker as an 'adult' and having 'women' flirt with me.

Kind of miss the days of hunting for the most awesome free webserver (Geocities vs. the one in Hong Kong vs. etc.) and building shitty webpages with gif backgrounds @ age 12-13.

...I've been here for ages, but I still can manage to screw up while posting. Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duyl0ZZ5BQ

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue135/96_The_online_games_peo.php

Computers were so much more exciting back then. Every new processor meriting a round of magazine covers, late-night talk shows devoted to how to make the Internet work better, etc.

oh man, dial-upppppppppppppppp

"i tried to call you, but i kept getting a busy signal"
"sorry, i was on the internet"

On a related note, this is all that remains of the wonderful computer oral history list I lurked on for 10+ years. (The link to later archives is dead.)

i miss websites that were readable

Why do you think you are here?

the old-school, uncluttered layout iirc

I miss back when if you googled an obscure album you'd get some geocities dude's page about it instead of six thousand websites that want to sell you a copy. but don't actually have a copy.

^^^^

I don't miss an entire university campus connected to the internet through a pair of 128K ISDN lines.

I miss the old modem dialling up tone (I remember mine PRECISELY because my connection would time out every half hour, hence hearing it like eight times a day), it was weird to hear one recently and feel a kind of nostalgia for something that's actually so recent.

I miss that one shade of grey that seemed to be the default for every amateur website. also miss netscape.

*default background color

also miss the < blink > tag and the < marquee > tag

old modem dialling up tone

schpung schpung

the other day for some reason i really wanted to see nice images of all the toys and vehicles from the mid-1980s care bear line (the small action figure size). did some googling for a few minutes, confident i would quickly find some collector nut's exhaustive resource dedicated to these toys, the different years of the line, how there's a rare version of this one guy with blue hair by mistake, maybe scans of toys r us newspaper circulars..... nothing! or rather, such pages are obviously out there, but unfindable: page after page of search results is e-shopping, mostly for present-day care bear items. it is so, so much harder these days to find sites that are not in some way selling you something, or robotically generated clones of sites trying to sell you something.

oh wait i guess this is the current thread for this: Internet nostalgia

I remember the "old" internet. I worked in high tech around the time that Netscape came out and the majority of pages on the web were the 'personal' pages of software and hardware engineers. The web was a very puny, flat and dull place at first. Now it is a monstrous place, in every sense of that word. But, what can you do? (shrugs)