Everyone was nice to each other and followed unwritten rules in communication. :)
Configuring my UUCP connection to provide my BBS users with « electronic mail ».
I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.
Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.
How everyone who knew how to had their own personal homepage.
I love https://www.cameronsworld.net/. I wish websites were still made like this.
What am I looking at here lmfao
Geocities circa 1998
My favorite one was the calculator that is fully functional, but also resets to boobs after a few seconds
- Newgrounds
- Homestar Runner
- AIM
- Yahoo chat rooms
- MUDs
- Not internet, but Leisure Suit Larry holds a special place in my memories.
Leisure Suit Larry
Ken sent me
It takes leather balls to play rugby
Lubbers
