What do you miss from the early net?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Seeing the tech humor link posted elsewhere (a site I had posted a story on a long time ago) got me thinking...what sites do you miss from the early (or earlier) days of the net?

A few of mine off the top of my head:

FIBS: First Internet Backgammon Server...the one you had to telnet into in plain text mode, before anybody made any GUIs for it. It was fun, and the people were nuts. It also didn't have the oddness introduced by teens, kids, and fanatics of various flavors that plague almost every community site around now. But then again, I was an early teen when I went there, so who knows...

Netropolis: Used to be hosted on delphi.uk...fun net-based game where you got to basically run a corporation that didn't exactly follow the letter of the law. I killed a lot of hours on that.

And of course...Usenet. The real thing, before inundations of spam made it a pain and web forums drew a lot of people away. I miss it. A lot.

[Asher]

Good, popular MUDs and MUSHes and MUXes.

[Eli]

Porn and warez sites that had links that actually led to porn and warez.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I didn't think they ever had those.....

Except for Usenet, at least.

I don't miss UUEncoded files.

[Dis]

I didn't really get on until 96 or so. So I'm not sure what I missed out on.

I just didn't know enough about the web to find the cool stuff.

It took years for me to find the cool stuff.

And after I found the cool stuff, where do I end up going- Apolyton

[Whaleboy]

Lack of adverts, pop ups, idiots. When it was still a virgin territory free of government surveillance, marketting departments, google.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Ooh. Speaking of google, I miss the days when altavista was the best thing on the web, too.

The original babelfish was amazing when it was added.

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by dv8ed
I don't miss UUEncoded files.

What was wrong with them? I still use them - much better than simple zips.

[Spiffor]

I don't miss anything. The internet was almost empty of content in the past, and filled way too much with porn. I'm damn glad there is now somethin non-porn to be found on the web.

[Inverse Icarus]

aol 2.0 and the rise of the proggies.

the golden age of VB

[Worthingtons]

Everyone back then were geeks
I used to feel a bitter more normal than the average

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Eli
Porn and warez sites that had links that actually led to porn and warez.

so the legend is true!!!

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Eli
Porn and warez sites that had links that actually led to porn and warez.

Ahhh yeah, the good ol' days




I didn't get online until '97, so I don't miss that much... the only thing I miss is the best chat-room I've ever seen... Anyone remember that old comic chat-room from MS? You're still able to download the chat-room-app (After a very long search), but you can't connect to anything anymore

Haven't been a regular user of chat-rooms since they cancelled it

[Pekka]

I got on in.. 95? Yeah, back then there was no popups, or not much banners everywhere anyway. No javascripts, flash, or other things that really are not nice to see in every page you visit. Clean fun... also no stupid people, because back then you actually had to be interested about it to be able to get in, there were no internet connection in every home.

Lots of porn, I mean me and my friend were like 'wow... there has to be like... maybe 10 gigs of porn in internet!'.
Though that has naturally increased.

[TCO]

branching threads at Apolyton.