Comments on: The Web back in 1996-1997

By: 30yearsandcounting

30yearsandcounting — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:44:57 +0000

In the fast moving social network driven world of today’s web we want it all and we want it now. We post and we share and we Twitter and we blog. But for those of us who have been surfing the web for the last decade or so we can look back and remember a much simpler time. In the late 90’s there were only around 100,000 websites, compared to more than 160 million in 2009. The web browser of choice was Netscape Navigator and most people used dial-up Internet connections with mighty speeds ranging from 28.8Kbps to 33.6Kbps. It was a time of hamsters, chain-letter emails, chatrooms and a man called Mahir Çağrı

You can find a great little post about the webs in the 90’s which might be of interest here:

http://thirtyyearscounting.blogspot.com/2010/06/lkjkghg-hampster-back-in-1998-canadian.html

By: adonis

adonis — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:20:40 +0000

Where are Netscape and Altavista… It was long time ago, really long time ago, and lots of tgings changed till now. I feel old myself, i think i am getting old

By: PenaltyKillah

PenaltyKillah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:21:00 +0000

Do I spot Bliss’s (Windows XP default wallpaper, the one with blue sky, clouds, and green pasture) uncle on the old MSN.com site? LOL!

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By: Compare My Stuff

Compare My Stuff — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:56:08 +0000

It’s shocking to see how far yahoo has come. Lycos, excite, altavista are BG (before google)…

By: Savvas

Savvas — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:28:47 +0000

That brings back memories of my first internet experiences… lol… it was all about AltaVista back then =)

By: metallicatown

metallicatown — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:25:33 +0000

I was online back in 1996, I used webtv then and was a regular at Simpsons.com chatrooms

By: vince

vince — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:08:39 +0000

someone mentioned Pointcast.. I remember that, I actually sat around to wait for the screensaver with ‘real-time’ info to come on lol. I started with Excite as my homepage I think in 94-95, and I hadn’t changed it until Google came on in 98 -by then the barrage of moving GIFs had just made me sick. I remember my then-wife taking home a Google mousemat from some convention where they were announcing their launch!

As for sites, homepages were the thing, where people built ‘shrines’ to their favorite movie/music stars. Good times indeed. Oh and I remember the pain of the phone bill before the ‘free’ internet access hit Europe ca. 1999/2000!

By: jannghi

jannghi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:21:27 +0000

Anyone remember WhoWhere or Four11 (later bought by Yahoo and relaunched as Yahoo People Search)? I was in my last year of college when I first began using the Internet and WhoWhere was one of the first sites I discovered. Both of these were sites where you could list your e-mail address(es). WhoWhere also allowed you to list favorite music, books, etc., and to write a personal message at the end. Lycos acquired WhoWhere in 1998. Yahoo’s people search used the same system as Four11 (with the trademark Yahoo screens) until Yahoo bought Four11. I had my then-current e-mail addresses on both of these and found some people I knew, but I didn’t find a whole lot of them.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:58:57 +0000

band fan sites….you could search “Van Halen”, “Green Day” or any band name in yahoo and you would get tons of pages apart from the official webpage

all addresses were printen in full form (http://www.hotmail.com)

superbad.com

ICQ ruled