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24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

It may feel like you hopped on the internet just yesterday. But it's been a long, strange trip over many years. That trip has provided some...

By PocketEpiphany

Published 4 months ago in Ftw

It may feel like you hopped on the internet just yesterday. But it's been a long, strange trip over many years.


That trip has provided some crazy memories. And here are a few things that only internet veterans even remember!


  • 1

    Having your own webpage that you hosted for free on Geocities or Angelfire or Yahoo homepage or something similar. When I was a kid, everybody had their own "website" which was usually just a landing page with a hit counter, some pictures/photos, an .mp3 of their favorite song and some general musings, maybe an about section or a blog if they were serious about maintaining it. They were always slapped together with the most basic HTML editors with godawful formatting and infested with banner ads and popups. I actually really miss those days, because the modern social media sites are creatively bankrupt and hosting your own website and actually making it good has become a more complex affair than it used to be (it's still around, but lacking the same charm). -u/AntiTheory

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 2

    The under construction banner and construction worker digging gifs! -u/mystik213

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 3

    Alta Vista -u/CassandraCubed

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 4

    Winamp skins -u/tossaway69420lol

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 5

    Weird little squares with blue and red on them that would sort of take the place of graphics until the graphics would actually load. The text would be visible but the graphics wouldn't be there yet. -u/hellogriff

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 6

    Webrings. You go to a site, often a geocities site, for something you are interested in and see a little arrow at the bottom of the page; this arrow will take you to another site on the same topic. If you are crazy/diligent enough, you will eventually return to the first site. -u/jrparker42

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 7

    When a TV show would say to check out their website at "h t t p : / / w w w ." Having to spell it out every time. -u/BigBoyTetranadon

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 8

    When it was called the 'information superhighway' -u/attictapes

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 9

    AOL sending discs through the mail offering 500 hours of free web access -u/Keithninety

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 10

    ICQUh oh (in a high pitched tone). -u/DictionaryStomach

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 11

    FTP, Gopher, Mosaic, running download jobs overnight hoping that the multikilobyte download from overseas running at 100 bytes/seconds didn't crash. -u/magick_68

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 12

    Making webpages using simple html -u/HeyHx2

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 13

    Using offline mode of browsers to get back to some webpages while you were disconnected to save money. -u/Dangerous_Biscotti63

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 14

    Using the internet or the phone, not both -u/Myrko6902

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 15

    Actually running out of pages on the internet to look at. -u/FighterWoman

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 16

    Amazon only selling books. -u/Shiaomimi

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 17

    Mapquest. Now we just have Google navigation and Apple maps

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 18

    Encarta :D -u/yellowochre25

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 19

    asl pls? -u/Waaswaa

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 20

    Internet dial up sound -u/Usernamess

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 21

    Printing out pages and pages of cheat codes for games. -u/VastNewt

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 22

    Not HAVING internet and playing Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball instead. -u/morenitababy

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 23

    Readable Newspaper homepages -u/Karakoima

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

  • 24

    Readable Newspaper homepages -u/Karakoima

    24 Photos That Encapsulate the Early Days of the Internet

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