What was it like to have internet in the 90's (teens pls avoid this thread)

[YourIHero]

Man, I got a ton of viruses from downloading **** from Limewire

[Daba91]

dat feel when trying to watch porn on 56k

[Tongest]

Brb accidentally cursed in aol kids chat room, get transcript of chat emailed to my uncles email.

[taddpole]

uh oh



That sound still makes my stomach drop hoping it was my teenage oneitis.

Lmao I know this feel

>AIM door opening sign-on sound
>omg is it her?

Strong beta feels

[gabrielsyler]

Man, I got a ton of viruses from downloading **** from Limewire

Limewire and Bearshare. Very hit or miss on whether you'd be rebuilding your computer or not

[Sullivan0930]

Taking an entire day to download 16mp3s and 2hrs to burn a cd.

Aol chat rooms to talk to sloots

[mehcba]

Limewire and Bearshare. Very hit or miss on whether you'd be rebuilding your computer or not

Sorry brah, both came out in 2000 so not applicable to this thread!

[shakercup09]

a/s/l ? god knows all the times I cybered with girls and they were probably actually guys

oh and I always said I had a 10 inch cock. feels

lol and using the AOL cds as ninja stars

[SillyHilly]

The dial-up tone... Ahhh, nostalgia

[Rainskates]

Came in not expecting to remember much from this time, heard dial-up sound..... FEELS fuarkkk

[Water_American]

Used to print out pr0n photos cause it took so long, lulz. Download a song on napster and it'd take 3-4 days depending on how often I could actually get online at a time

[Vindicate]

had my hax for CS on a floppy disc

would also spray low res porn in CS after i killed ppl


accidentally typed pussy in the search browser and couldn't delete history...almost **** myself before parents got home. Had to do so many searches to take it off of the most recent search history on the drop down lol

[Huberus]

Lmao I know this feel

>AIM door opening sign-on sound
>omg is it her?

Strong beta feels

Dem teenage feels brah. We all made it.

[cman1787]

compuserve anybody?

[gabrielsyler]

Sorry brah, both came out in 2000 so not applicable to this thread!

I'll just wait till the Internet in the '00s thread in 10 years

[Brosta]

this thread makes me want to set my browser to only use 56kbps max download speed for dem nostalgia feels

[noobydooby]

hayes modem with blinking lights
BBS (bulletin board systems)
ascii graphics, or was ansi?
connection would be dropped if your little sister picked up the phone extension
limited users to BBSes

[DirtyTrickster]

Hyper terminal to set up private "chat" between me and a buddy

brb telephone icon

See the "ring" ring on screen and type "ATA"


Not really internet, but I remember installing Doom 2 for the first time...

that DOS

7 floppy disks

a:/install.exe

c:/doom2.exe

[Huberus]

I'll just wait till the Internet in the '00s thread in 10 years

You're 31 brah! Were you still jacking off to paper magazines while the rest of us downloaded 200k pictures over 4 minute periods? Dafuq were you not on the net?

[RoryFan]

Brb waiting 10 minutes for a 12 second porn clip to load then setting it on repeat and masturbating furiously.

[AryanBarbarian]

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[Impregnator]

compaq 400c 486 dx2 processor, windows 3.1, aol 2.5-3.0
i was so new to software and windows, i had no clue how to install drivers and configure sys files for the included 14.4k fax modem card i had gotten with the laptop.
so i ended up buying a ZOOM 56k modem, aol recognized it, everything worked. 1998, maybe 97 i was on the internet at home. brb pixelated MPG, MPEG pron clips. beating off to 16bit pics of black females that were probably scanned from an old 90's or 80's magazine.

ahh yess the good old days. then i got into ti calculators, oh mannn there was a huge world out there for calculator programming and games. i remember spending hours and hours downloading every ti-82 game and app.
using the win 3.1 ti calc software. reading all the geochitty pages, yahoo pages, and websites for calculator programming, and beating off to 8bit 16bit pics.

i'd give anything to have that original laptop back, i threw it away because the display was fuked up. i coulda repaired it at my age now. and the hdd i wish i could get all my old files off of, i threw it away too.

so in memory i ended up buying an almost identical laptop











when i recieved this laptop, i was really hoping there was some cached web pages still stored i could look at, but im unable to retrieve anything yet, all browser history is cleared.
im open for ideas. i really hope theres some pictures tucked away of me using that old laptop as a kid. would nostalgia-tears in a heart beat.

[SJ19]

Fuuuuark feels

[darkninja67]

Mplayer chat/video rooms. Those were the days.

[Bunpitsu]

Schit.

brb sometimes trying to connect for well over an hour
brb can't use the phone at the same time
brb lag
brb dropping connection
brb don't even think about playing online games
brb taking several days to download one album
brb might as well not even have internet

but then we get broadband internet when it first came out in 2000 or so. motherofgod...it's beautiful

[hailux]

first screen name

nyke1988

brb had a internet girlfriend at 9-10 you mad yet? lol

[Huberus]

Schit.

brb sometimes trying to connect for well over an hour
brb can't use the phone at the same time
brb lag
brb dropping connection
brb don't even think about playing online games
brb taking several days to download one album
brb might as well not even have internet

but then we get broadband internet when it first came out in 2000 or so. motherofgod...it's beautiful

Now we get pissed off at a 5 second load time.




I'm not even joking, 5 seconds is apparently a fukking lifetime now.

[RedSoxfan1978]

I'm old. I remember 28kps modems and even the ones previous to that. There was no Google. There was not even an AOL yet.

Moore's Law Brahs. I'm truly amazed at how far things have come in just ten years. How many people has high speed net in say 2003? Now there is not only high speed Wifi everywhere but cellular data speeds now beat home WiFi in some areas. It's truly mind blowing.

[.aeterna]

14.4kbps master race modem crew

DO-WEE-DO-WEE-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

brb nobody can call me
brb cant call nobody

playing SC1 was soo slow

brb loading nekked picture of Carmen Electra takes a day

[GreekyBeth]

I was amazed at the speed of moving up to a 56.6 from a 28.8 modem. AOL was king and Netscape was the browser of choice. I used web crawler as my search engine. This was 95.