How the internet was back in the day.

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A lot of people now admit that this secretly scared them when they were younger, and I'm no exception. What is it about this that sounds so unsettling?

Surfing the internet in 1996. Netscape Navigator was the first browser I ever used.

Slow and froze up a lot. But there was no CAPTCHA asking you to check rounds of boxes.

At least there were multiple sites.

I think I go on about 3 sites a day now.

And it's been a long time since I was on a site of someone I know.

Hotmail was decent back then and you could do MSN messenger later on. And later on you could even do games via it.

Mum wouldn't have let me do email at 10 but dad moved abroad so it was a way to email him. He was the only one I emailed for years, then I got an e pen pal when I was 14. Got a crush on her & hated it when she got a bf.

When you waited for games, they gave you mini games.

Yahooligans was good too and kids have no replacement for it. A replacement wouldn't just be google with net nanny. It would gear you towards fun sites for kids. Google with net nanny makes kids just want real google.

I recall downloading porn in 1989

Each line of pixels was downloaded like every 2 min.

I would leave it and come back half an hour later and I could see the girl's hair and the top of her eye brows

The dial-up noise still gives me nightmares.

I used to get excited hearing the dial up, as well as "You've Got Mail". (Not a fan of the movie though). I remember bulletin boards on Prodigy feeling like edgy stuff too.

it made me feel i was on a boat headed out onto a vast sea of information.

I loved the sound of the dial up, I remember I used to try to imitate it (difficult if you're not a dolphin)

Back in the early 1990s Augsburg University (Minneapolis/Minnesota?) used to have a free international discussion forum to allow their students to talk to other posters from overseas. It was prone to freezing so often our discussions were short but ironically it was very similar to the kind of debates we are having right now on WP.

I found the sound unsettling too. It sounded like aliens threatening my safety in binary

In the 1989 my parents got "Prodigy" a software program that allowed you to browse the internet,it wasn't an internet browser but was software program with internet capabilities.

I wasn't into computers and hated them and didn't even get an email address until 2009,I found WP in late 2010 and Facebook in late 2013.

ah those were the days