It was like this
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

There was mostly just animated gifs.

Exactly the same but with RealPlayer instead of Flash.

>>18484254
4chan

>>18484343

Buffering...

>>18484361
Oh god, the horrible, horrible memories...

/thread

Frames, frames everywhere

>>18484400
I wonder if the guy who made that was fucking proud of himself.

Fapping to porn in 160x120 resolution

>>18484426
...on a 640x480 CRT screen.

HTML., HTML EVERYWHERE

Kazaa, iMesh, Napster, all the cool stuff.

Evangelion episodes weighting 45 MB with yellow subtitles and 500% pleasure from watching it.

Porn came in the form of 7 MB clips and random jpgs.

irc was the H4><0r way of communicating with your TFC clan.

And so on...

Super low res porn and waiting ages for a 60 sec vid to load. Half the time it was like looking at a mosaic and letting your imagination do the rest.

>>18484426
Sometimes it was a good thing, ever see pictures of some of those 90s internet porn stars in hi-res? Yuck.

Those were dark days.
Every webpage looked like what a 15-year old who just learned HTML makes now.

I remember 1995. Holy fuck that was...sick.

>>18484418
He sure fucking is. Just look at his fucking grin

pages were made small enough to load in under 60 seconds on dial up... i fucking hated dial up, but i loved the internet. why does dial up still exist today?

>>18484474
I agree that flashy shit is annoying, but those old webpages were just hard to look at

Blue ribbons, Geocities, MacOS Classic, The Well, Razor1911, Motif everywhere, Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4.5. All good shit.

downloading 50mb videos over dial up and then proceeding to watch that in Real Player
hell yeeaaaaahhhh

>>18484493
3rd world countries and old people without relatives who care

>>18484493
For poorfags and hillbillies that don't live near a DSLAM.

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
That noise for several hours = one minute of porn.

Web 1.0 got style.

bad, real bad style

it was so bad it was awesome

ISDN anyone? @TheWorld?

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219003038/http:/www.pepsi.com/

MY EYES

>>18484512

Uh pretty much every single country in the world has broadband these days. The most isolated countries generally don't have internet at all, but there are very very few of those.

Web 2.0 doesn't refer to design/style, you god damn retards.

>>18484521
alt.tasteless, alt.depressed.as.fuck, alt.suicide.holiday, 3do.badattitude. Best NG's evar.

GetRight

because you needed several internet sessions to download something huge (like new Netscape version weighting a whooping 20MB) and the HTTP resume never worked

>>18484532

>IT HURTS TO LIVE PLEASE KILL ME

>>18484254

Faster.

Imagemaps.

>>18484254

Much, much, MUCH more mysterious than today's web is.

Now I know too much about it's inner workings to be as captivated by it as I used to be.

Hell, I haven't went really web surfing to find a new cool and unheard of website in ages. It's like real web surfing is dead now. Your life is restricted to a few sites that you visit daily and rarely ever venture outside the safe zone.

It's sad really...

Fuck it, I'm getting a few beers and I'm going to web surf all night in search of obscure stuff.

UnderConstruction.gif

>>18484609

Onion sites. Better get some addon that blocks all images though, avoiding the CP is hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_1.0

>>18484664
+1 for that! Gopher is great!

>>18484609
http://forums.thebestgamers.net/
have fun with this one, good for a cheap laugh or two

>>18484644

What do you mean by Onion sites?

>>18484664

Thanks man, I'll definitely check it out.

One of the first animu sites I visited in the 90's. It is still there and still the same style:

http://www.albatross1.com/ANIMIMG/animimg2.htm

>>18484735
deep web. use tor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web
https://www.torproject.org/

so much cp though. :|

With the while logo.

Then popups came.
>fr-free nudes?!

>>18484254
OH GOD THE IRC

geocities and gifs

geocities and gifs everywhere

>>18484727
>>18484727
>>18484727
that has to be the shittest site ever, thanks

4 hours to download one 3.5mb file

>>18484474
>not jQuery/AJAX/flashyshinyeffects-driven
I disagree, it should.

Lots of sharp corners, people could get an eye poked out!

Try this:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221053000/http://www.dell.com/

Dell's website from 1996.

wtf constitutes web 2.0 and 1.0?

>>18485122
Any part of internet history before you were born was web 1.0

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>>18485038
Downloading anything back then was such an exercise in patience... now I get angry if YouTube dares buffer a 720p video.

Just go to MySpace (and hope it doesn't bog down your browser so much you have to kill the process). It's like a museum for this old shit.

>>18485183
ill give you a 2 if you get a reply

>>18485132
the internet did not exist yet when i was born, this thread is full of cancer, die in fire. kthnxbai

>>18484609
I know that feel.

>Then:
12 windows open, finding new and hidden shit all over the web. Talking to random people in chat-rooms around the world, Slow internet but the wait was worth it for the 2min porn clip! Popups gave me free porn.

>Now:
One window, 5 tabs.
All communication done on one site.
All porn on one site.
Have not seen a popup in years.
Never venture outside of my small collection of bookmarks.

Time to go web 1.0!

>>18485206
>mad

Animated background gifs of night sky with neon
>green texts.

What is google? AskJeeves!

Anyone remember Lycos?

Yahoo chatrooms. "a/s/l?"

Nothing linked back to anything and Netscape was the shit.

>>18485402

This.

I miss Web 1.0.

The only thing still Web 1.0 is craigslist

Okay, I can see that /g/ has it's share of oldfags.

I am pleased.

I used Compuserve and Prodigy. Mostly texts and pictures, compuserve did have forums. Usenet wasn't a sack of cow dung.

>>18485420

4chan?

typing /? in an AIM chatbox would crash AIM and make windows freeze.

>>18485147
With turbo buttons.

>It was like this son

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/094/5/1/XeoFreestyle_by_Cwolf042.swf

>>18485402

Oh god the fucking "AskJeeves" jokes!
>"Anon, what's 'place something here' about?"
>"I don't know, you should ask my friend Jeeves!"

>>18485668

>mfw when most people don't know where Jeeves is from and never read Wodehouse

I know where jeves came from.

HIS PARENTS HAD SEX!

i always wondered, why was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1AQcGGSec&feature=related that sound there?

>I used to listen to a lot of dubstep during the 90s... every time my computer connected to the internet.

>>18485998
Hahahaha.

>bored as fuck
>pointless post

It was a good thread, but tis dead now

Play this
http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/
go to
cgshrines.rydia.net
save images to floppy disk

>What was it like before Web 2.0?

This thread makes me wish I were born 5 years earlier...

Fuck reading this thread made me remember RealPlayer streaming. Goddamnit, that shit pissed me off so much.

Funny cause now I get annoyed at youtube to buffers for half a second once at the start for a high res video, I forgot how good I have it.

>>18486058
>I'd fuck it.

>>18486136

We've become so impatient!

It was called "So much fucking Javascript and CSS that it's bloated"

>>18486136
buffering....