Peak internet 1.0:
I remember thinking Netscape was way cooler than IE based purely on the throbber animation
I’ve seen that some dude on here has the Netscape throbber (for Gen Z: that’s what the animated doohickey in the corner that shows your page is still loading and your computer has not frozen is called) as his profile icon.
Maybe you’ve just summoned him up, Beetlejuice style.
For some reason this gif gives me nostalgia of listening to artbell.com on Netscape - Good times.
I still find listening to old Coast to Coast episodes cozy.
Remember when we got excited about browser releases? What a time.
I have Navigator 1.0 on a disk in my basement. Its my precious.
Yes, of course. We also had a notebook (these paper-based thingies, not a digital one) in the terminal room where we collected interesting web site addresses back then before Altavista and bookmarks.
I had a Popular Science magazine that included the 50 coolest websites you should visit. That was mine. I still get hit with so much nostalgia about it. They were legit so cool that they still put most websites I see nowadays to shame.
…well? You can’t just not share the sites?
That’s really cool. Many of them are still there–some of them unchanged.
Yeah, I noticed that too! It would be cool to make a more easily accessible collection of these kinds of things.
I left it in the terminal room when I left university decades ago. Maybe it is still there.
That one text file what was a copy paste of all the neat things we’d read on the internet and wanted to save.
Was there porn ?
Of course. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica - not an internet address in case you wonder, but a NNTP group. Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.
Online porn existed before the internet
Do we count Bulletin Boards as pre Internet?
Most bulletin boards like fidonet existed in parallel with the internet, and even used internet bridges to transfer mail and files across long distances where a dialup connection could not be used.
NNTP actally was quite network agnostic, the messages did not care about the means of transport. I actually handled a NNTP link back then via floppy disk.
The URL
about:mozillawas always full of fun :)I sure remember the HOURS it took me to download that sucker on my 14.4kb modem. I was blessed by the gods with a parent in the computer industry even then so we had a 2nd phone line that I could monopolize for a day of agonizingly watching and praying not to lose connection again.
Yes, if all had been perfect it should have only taken about an hour but dialup internet was ditzy and unreliable so I spent a huge chunk of that weekend getting a full download.
14.4k baud modem download… yes… I also plastered this on old wepages… hahahaha
Not this specific version, but NN in general, as a kid I sure do.
It had the best loading animation with the comets flying by. Much better than IE rotating and becoming the planet earth. This was back when you actually had to wait for pages to load.
people who remembered college days upon seeing this, please queue here
No, I remember Opera 7/8 though. Well… the one with ads.
2.2? I only remember 1.9 and before.
Anyone remember Flash Player? Me neither…
