What is the internet?

[scabzzzz]

I hate you Katie Couric. Bryant Gumbel, high five bro!

[YAN-3]

haha i dont believe a time as such ever existed.

[matthugie]

Wow. I mean, I understand the time and not getting new technology, but there was obviously no preparation done for that segment. Still amusing though.

[McGyver]

its so weird to have lived before the internet.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Like they said, due to the Internet, I'm sleep deprived.

[Fusion]

Bwahaha.
Anyone else here remember AOL chat? There was a time when people started posting ASCII pics and the whole shit went crazy. It got banned later. There were people called admins that would boot your ass out of the chat room. Then I moved onto Yahoo chat and I remember something called Cheetah chat that enabled you to have like rainbow texts and stuff. There were tons of people in the teen chats. Cyber sex was the top luxury. A/S/L? On top of all that the damn modem kept screaming. That would be like 1996 and my first encounters. Then IRC chat, the hacker channels and stuff, astalavista, downloading an mp3 an hour and a half, full CD left to download over night. Websites that looked like utter shit.

Since I've been plugged for some 15 years, the largest difference in my opinion is that people don't want to be annonymous anymore. Back in the chat days, noone's nick was their actual name.

Oh and anyone remember the hype chat where you had a top view of people (like Hospital Tycoon or something) and you could do stuff. And you could buy stuff with real money. Something like a Second Life, cept version 0.01.

[CleanAzzE30z]

Prodigy, motherfuckers!!! Who remembers that nonsense?

[Fusion]

And I always thought that Bulletin Board Systems (todays Forums) were total crap and I never thought anyone would use them except some geeks that wanted to keep a history of their chats. I don't think forums really cought on until around 2003. I guess that would be associated with an opensource easy to use, noob friendly system.

[Farbin Kaiber]

CompuServe?

[Fusion]

[CleanAzzE30z]

Old fucks.

[dkbmxer002]

forums caught on in the car world before 03 imo. i remember 00-02 car forums already being big.

it's funny to think back before the internet was popular.

[Fusion]

Damnit I can't find my first website. It was called The San Andreas Impound, I think on Geocities, dedicated to cars you could download and add the the very first version of the GTA series.

[Farbin Kaiber]

forums caught on in the car world before 03 imo. i remember 00-02 car forums already being big.

it's funny to think back before the internet was popular.

I was browsing ls1.com forums back in 98-99.

[dkbmxer002]

yup, i remember a few forums from that far back haha. the car world seemed to be a bit ahead of the curve with the forums lol