What's your oldest internet memory?

[XSGames]

Mine is the 56K modem

Your turn 👇

[Ice Robertson]

I think mine was 8k or something, then got a 14k and then a 33k and when i got 56k i thought i was boss.

yeah a little embarrassing.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

The AOL connection screen and the modem screaming its dialtones and other static noises.

Remembering when Netscape was THE browser you had to have... and you had to buy the installer disk.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Internet noises.

No one seems to remember the dials, or admit it!

Broadband internet came late to Brazil and coexisted with dial-up.

Anyone who was a kid (not an infant) in the mid 2000s should remember this. So basicly anyone over 25. Even if computers took a while to get into peoples homes (and never completely did: most Brazilians got into the internet in the smartphone era), one should have seen the school, the Library, an uncle, a business, someone at all, connect to the internet.

Yet most people seem to have forgotten.

[Ice Robertson]

Originally posted by DarkCrysmasMethod:

The AOL connection screen and the modem screaming its dialtones and other static noises.

Remembering when Netscape was THE browser you had to have... and you had to buy the installer disk.

I remember Netscape, God I'm not going back to then.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Originally posted by DarkCrysmasMethod:

Remembering when Netscape was THE browser you had to have... and you had to buy the installer disk.

And Microsoft's anticompetitive practices killed it.

Now we see that monstruosity of Chrome dominating the market, even if its the worst browser today. I once advocated for it, long ago...

[XSGames]

Originally posted by Ice Robertson:

I think mine was 8k or something, then got a 14k and then a 33k and when i got 56k i thought i was boss.

yeah a little embarrassing.

Don't be, it's just a nice memory ;)

[XSGames]

Originally posted by DarkCrysmasMethod:

The AOL connection screen and the modem screaming its dialtones and other static noises.

Remembering when Netscape was THE browser you had to have... and you had to buy the installer disk.

Netscape, what a browser!

[XSGames]

Originally posted by Heitor Villa-Lobos:

Internet noises.

No one seems to remember the dials, or admit it!

Yet most people seem to have forgotten.

I haven't forgotten about that noise, I'm thankful for progress 😁

[DarkCrystalMethod]

I got another one...

Log into linux.
Then run the startx command.
And when you figured out how to switch to different window managers that was a real game changer.

[CygGame]

56k modem for me too.

[Vox]

Lycos & Tripod
Geocities
Windows 98 active desktop
I think i had a windows 95 machine connected to the internet at one point

[vkobe]

Originally posted by XSGames:

Mine is the 56K modem

Your turn 👇

nescape, internet explorer, modem sound, napster, yahoo, winamp, clippit

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Heitor Villa-Lobos:

Originally posted by DarkCrysmasMethod:

Remembering when Netscape was THE browser you had to have... and you had to buy the installer disk.

And Microsoft's anticompetitive practices killed it.

Now we see that monstruosity of Chrome dominating the market, even if its the worst browser today. I once advocated for it, long ago...

sorry dude, but even if nestcape survive topday they will just turn into trash like google, company are cool when they started, when they turn older they suck badly

example facebook, tik tok, youtube and even steam

steam was fun to use before 2018 after it look like crappy modern mess

[Tiberius]

A heated debate abt which country makes the best curry. An indian was so mad cos i said curry was invented in thailand.

Yahoo chatroom was wild back then

[a]

talking to a 22 year old alaskan on aim that i met playing dragonrealms at age 8 or 9.

just a pen pal.