Do You Ever Miss The "Old" Internet

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)