Classic internet shenanigans.
The internet feels like a more "established" place nowadays, but back in the day there was a lot of amateurish, hilarious, often stupid shenanigans. Share your nostalgia. I'll start:
http://www.zombo.com
http://www.zombo.com
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And the first Web search engine ever: http://www.aliweb.com/ - it comes from 1993!
One classics I can name is http://www.mcspotlight.org/index.shtml
What a sad day it is!
Another thing to be gone...
And yes @Mathsorcerer, I remember when I got my blazingly fast 1200 baud modem. Blew my 300 out of the water.
Then later, Webcrawler.
I also came up with "Low-Power magic items, and oddities like a small, rectangular box with two lenses- one larger and affixed to the front of the box, and a smaller one that went straight through from front to back. There was also a slit-like opening on the lower part of the front of the box, and a single button. If you point the large lens at something and push the button. it makes a strange sort of whirring noise and an image of whatever the large lens was facing at the time emerges from the bottom of the box. Yup, magical camera that never needs film. But if you open the box it's empty and cannot be repaired.
no? Its not? Aww...
Those were the days - when using the internet involved paying a subscription to AOL and using an external modem, and run dial-up networking in the early hours, because it involved me taking the phone cable out and putting the modem in instead! Oh, and paying BT for the call too, because local calls weren't free in the UK at that time!!
I spent a lot to use the net back then, but it was worth it. ;-)
(being 18 qualifies me to judge these matters)
Seriously though, I used to use it a lot to chat to my Dutch cyber-buddy from the old PlanetBaldursGate, but I haven't used it for years now.
Also, does anybody else think that the Backstreet Boys were the 20th century equivalent to Twilight (i.e. everybody hated them except for certain teenage girls, who fawned over the very sight of them)? ;-)
I did some BBSing iirc starting in '93, mostly played some very simple OLGs. Legend of the Red Dragon was pretty cool, but I played some slightly more advanced ones too. Simple concept, but fun.
ICQ is where all the cool kids hung.