What do you miss from the early net?

[Bereta_Eder]

close nit community (dial up and direct connect to BBSes)where I could sell whatever I wanted cause there was a sense of trust.

[Az]

nothing. I got on in 99'.

[mrmitchell]

I started in '98. This means I don't know of too much to miss, but I miss the internet bubble. It was great, seeing the economy rise, the stock markets shoot up every day, and any half-brained idea could come true (at least until the bubble burst )

I do miss being able to go online without feeling the government is on my back. (Fleeing the law in 16 states doesn't help that though... )

[Az]

[Stefu]

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

With the hindsight, AltaVista wasn't all that hot then, either. I mean, you used it because there wasn't anything better, but it was slow-ish and (compared to Google, anyhow) not exactly good at finding stuff you wanted. When the Google came, it was like "Whoa! They don't clutter their frontpage with useless shit! And it actually gets you the results you can find!"

[Ming]

Originally posted by TCO
branching threads at Apolyton.

Apolyton never had branching threads

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ming


Apolyton never had branching threads

I'm sure it did back in the soup days. Now behave. Who rigged the voting for you...

[Pekka]

Stefu, it was Yahoo all the way . Altavista always sucked.

[Ming]

Originally posted by TCO
I'm sure it did back in the soup days.

As I'm sure you remember... it never did (and never will)
But many of the other sites we were at did

Now behave. Who rigged the voting for you...

you did

[DanielXY]

I miss waiting 5 minutes for a page to load, so I could do the housework while Im online

[Stefu]

Listen to Ming, GP (TCO is GP, right? That makes him another of the evil people changing their monikers just to bother me) - Apolyton never had branching threads. You are just old and your brain has been destroyed by cheap methanol - you keep misremembering things.

[Bereta_Eder]

But you're sympathetic.

[MrFun]

Exactly what years do you guys consider early Internet? I cannot remember when it became available to the general consumer population.

I had my own Internet access not until 1996.

[DanielXY]

Early is for me when 14.4 modems where the latest thing. That was my starting time.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MrFun
Exactly what years do you guys consider early Internet? I cannot remember when it became available to the general consumer population.

I first had access to it when Jimmy Carter was Pres, but it wasn't called the "internet" back then, although the term had been coined.

I was a regular daily user at work well before TCP was mandated across the ARPANET.