Internet Nostalgia Thread.

[Stazy]

I used to make websites that scammed people into giving me their Neopets login info. I was mega rich until Neopets tracked me down and shut down my account

 

[dfagdfsh]

aim bot room kick bitches

 

[Piobaire]

Telnet and Gopher. How could I forget? Also, shell accounts you telnet'ed into.

Or remember those sort of hobbiest/hippy city BBSs? There was a network of them but I can't remember what the name was.

 

[Harold falcon]

www.McDonalds.com circa 1996

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/199...nalds.com/main

 

[Neo_Version 7]

Lycos and Ask Jeeves.

 

[Geoff Gander]

-telnetting through a shell to go MUDDing (wasted too many hours on Redemption)
-dial up noise
-tons of little games from Winfile and other sites (some of them decent)
-downloading Wolfenstein 3D
-Geocities

 

[Kas]

 

[velvel87]

Compuserve (didn't make you keep a permanent username), chat rooms - Jew chat, doom and quake 3, Juno, i-am-bored.com

 

[DerekS]

i remember my cousin had the internet installed before i did...we stayed up all night long in aol chat rooms....we'd end up losing connection and having to log back in...took an eternity.

 

[gort]

It's funny to think how kids nowadays won't have a clue what the "You've got mail" sound is from.

 

[velvel87]

Originally Posted by gort

It's funny to think how kids nowadays won't have a clue what the "You've got mail" sound is from.

Or what dial up sounds like. I wonder if my kids will even recognize references to phones with wires attached to them. It's a different world.

 

[Douglas]

Pine
Duke Nukem
that telnet chat stuff

 

[aphextwin07]

Netscape
mIRC, ICQ
FTP
Cult of the Dead Cow
altavista, hotbot, lycos, askjeeves
geocities/angelfire
ytmnd
I guess it's been long enough and since someone else mentioned it: Wolf:ET (greatest PC multiplayer FPS game of all time)

 

[Piobaire]

Just remembered the BBS system I was trying to think of: freenets.

 

[JohnGalt]

One of my fondest memories was gaining access to a linux box on a cablemodem alpha test. This was in the days of like 14.4 speeds. I used to pingflood the **** out of people on IRC. Would also spoof ident and takeover chans with ease.