Not unlike that is a book I still have on my bookcase, The Internet Atlas. There was Tripod and Angelfire.Yeah they were more directories, a categorised list of links. Geocities wasn't the only custom page, though it was the most famous. I remember paying once to put my GeoCities site up on Yahoo's directory (96 or 97), before Google existed. Back then it wasn't so much search engines as it was "we have our own directory of sites people submitted", to places like Yahoo, AltaVista, Webcrawler, Compuserv, AOL, and so on. The old search engines tickle my nostalgia. That long spin-up period (slow CD-ROMs back then), sometimes the encyclopedia crashing if it didn't read fast enough. Having to keep switching the CD's was the bane of everything. Then later I met this girl in uni who told me about irc and got me hooked.Įveryone had Encarta for a while, it had yearly releases on like 10 CD's.
It didn't make much of an impression then. We'd usually try and meet someone to get laid, but we ended up talking with some dork about the endless possibilities of the internet. So we spent the afternoon reading silly jokes on some geocities site. We tried to watch some boobies but it took for ever. I heard the dialup noise as I entered his home. I brought chips and comics, as was our usual arrangement. Time was up before we managed to do anything.ġ995. He spent like 20 minutes trying entering a 50 characters long address he had copied in a piece of paper. The guy tending the place set us up in one of them, and my father took control. They had a bar, one bowling alley, some games and two computers. Accessible through a tortuous stair in the busiest street in town. My mother brought us to a new place that had just opened. Nobody in their right mind would ever want to go back to that.ġ994. Good memories, but I can't really say I miss it. I remember even images took an eternity to load. Eventually my dad gave up and I never got to try the Quake demo.
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It probably would have taken 48+ hours, but the dial up connection kept getting interrupted which meant you had to start your download over back then. My dad tried to download this Quake demo for me and my brother. I also remember how terribly slow and unreliable everything was. Eventually my dad showed me altavista (before google). It isn't anymore, but it was back in 1998. I remember trying and it was a porn site. I remember watching commercials and trying really hard to remember whatever ALMOST always. Search engines either didn't exist, or I just didn't know about them when I first started using the internet. What was out there on the internet? Could have been anything for all I knew, and it pretty much was anything. It just felt like an endless world of possibilities. That dial up sound always got me excited when I was a kid. Just about when the internet was really becoming a thing. It must have been about 1994 or 1995 when my dad hooked up our first dial up connection.
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