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Internet and Nostalgia
Whoa, I've just found out this is already more than half a decade old:
Looking back, some of us have almost a decade of history shared with the internet, and that's quite amazing, when you look back, if you consider how recent the internet is. Who doesn't remember Geocities, before being bought by Yahoo? Altavista, when it was the most popular search engine on the internet? What about Audio Galaxy, which was even better than modern Bit Torrent?
Share your memories 
Dogpile was the shizzle when I was in Middle School (circa 1996).
audiogalaxy was the shit.
Indeed. Audiogalaxy was amazing. BitTorrent is pretty good too though, with the mixing bowl.
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| Originally posted by infinity HiGH Indeed. Audiogalaxy was amazing. BitTorrent is pretty good too though, with the mixing bowl. |
Prodigy & Compuserve.
Why, back in my day computers had only a fraction of the power of the computers we see today. The smallest home computer was as big as a Volkswagen Bug, and twice as heavy. It'd run you around 30,000 American without the ability to slice bread, 40,000 with.
Of course the most powerful ubercomputer was owned by the government. It was enormous and powered by coal and steam. It was the first computer that showed that human computerizers could be replaced by machines. I remember the day that a man challeged the ubercomputer to a computing race. They were given many tasks, and could only answer in ones and zeroes. Through most of the race the ubercomputer and this man were neck and neck, but finally the man pulled ahead at the end and won the computing race. Unfortunately he immediately fell dead from a stroke, a result of the enormous toll his brain had taken from the heavy computing.
This man's name? John Henry the Computerizing Man. He was born with a calculator in his hand. Some say that every time you boot up your computer you can hear ol' John computing away...bleep bleep SKRRRRR wop! Some say it's just the wind. Not that you kids would remember such a man.
yeah audiogalaxy was the shit
i still remember my first time in the internet
looked up codes for megaman 
i remember when google was new too
lol and i stayed stubborn and used yahoo
shit what else was there
yahoo, altavista, dogpile, lycos, i know i'm missing one or two big ones
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| Originally posted by strik3r |
i remember discovering porn
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| Originally posted by mezzir i still remember my first time in the internet looked up codes for megaman |
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This is my 7th year on the internet I think. When I think about it, it's crazy how much it's influenced and taught me.
LOL, I remember using my grandma's checks to register for AOL at 11. Those were the days.. playing Magestorm, searching for porn, downloading roms, gamefaqs, alienaa.. etc.
Hah, p2ps were so frustrating back then. I dreamed of high-speed internet when downloading Mp3s..
there are so many files out there that I was unable to download and will never see again
oh man, anyone remember the brief stint mp2s had before mp3s became the norm?
they were hard to find and even harder to find something to play them, but god damn they were better than midis
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| Originally posted by UWM Prodigy & Compuserve. |
I still remember my first time on the internet back in '95, and I was so impressed by alamak hackchat!!...
omggggggggggg the first days of internet I was so excited to use www.webcrawler.com
I remember going to a Conference on the Internet in 1995~6 I was quite the kiddo. Internet wasn't common in France yet and very pricey.
So there I was me and my father and we were at this conference to use the free internet access!
Oh man the memories I can still picture it!
( Everyone must have been triple my age there 
... and I had somehow managed to get an invite to the conference and not have to pay to attend ... ah my first steps into the fine world of social engineering! )
At first most of the stuff I looked up was BBS archives for phreaking and hacking 
...
And I remember discovering mp3.com .... it took me a week or two to realize they didn't have big name artists on there but only wannabes.
And Napster 
that was da ghettoooooooo
I went to visit a friend who lived a couple hours away. I was so hyper cause he had cable internet ( and I had 14.4 k back home ).
We stayed up all night while I was leeching like a mofo. By morning I had about a gig and a half! But he was so pissed off cause his upload limit for the month had almost been used up during the night ( 500 megs or so ).
My ICQ years too .... 4659756 I still remember my number!
Irc, my first times playing with haxxed versions of photoch0p 5.0 etc.
I remember when AudioGalaxy got shut down. I kept saying it was impossible that they wouldn't shut it down. I even flamed about it on TA ( oh man let's do some old school thread digging! ).
Twas da bomb.
But I wouldn't trade my isp today for any of what I had back then
Or some of these bittorrent websites ( hein Lira 
you know what I mean )
AudioGalaxy was the shit.
i remember leaving my computer hooked up overnight to whatever ISP i had at the time, and letting all my downloads on Napster/AudioGalaxy/KaZaa go at like 5kb/sec since i was on dial-up.
or how 'bout when NetZero was actually free?
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| Originally posted by jdat My ICQ years too .... 4659756 I still remember my number! |
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| Originally posted by jdat Or some of these bittorrent websites ( hein Lira you know what I mean ) |
oh yea the "oh oohh" days of icq, how annoying did that sound get 
my number was a bit longer 108251423
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| Originally posted by jdat I remember going to a Conference on the Internet in 1995~6 I was quite the kiddo. ( Everyone must have been triple my age there) |
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| Originally posted by l�cid AudioGalaxy was the shit. i remember leaving my computer hooked up overnight to whatever ISP i had at the time, and letting all my downloads on Napster/AudioGalaxy/KaZaa go at like 5kb/sec since i was on dial-up. or how 'bout when NetZero was actually free? |
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| Originally posted by narcism oh yea the "oh oohh" days of icq, how annoying did that sound get my number was a bit longer 108251423 |
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| Originally posted by UWM Weren't you 22 back then? |
winners never quit 
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| Originally posted by UWM Weren't you 22 back then? |
Heh, I remember...
- Thinking it was so badass to have my own AOL account
- 60014357 is still my working ICQ number (except I forgot my pass two months ago, and reformatted & lost my auto-login )
- I used Angelfire and, oh, crap, what was it. Eh, another site to host my websites
- I learned HTML when I was 11, and used MSPaint to do 1337 designs and image-mapping
- Napster ftw
Am I 1337 if my ICQ account is under 1 million?
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| Originally posted by idoru - Thinking it was so badass to have my own AOL account |
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