As someone who was there: The old internet truly did feel like an entirely different beast than what we have now. It felt like reading an infinite book, every website and page like picking up a rock and seeing what's living underneath. Admittedly, some of that was the sheer novelty of it all making it seem more magical, but I feel like the corporatization of the internet really killed the soul of it.
@N99622
8 ай бұрын
Well, in the early days all that really existed were social sites and services and handmade personal pages built by hobbyists. It was all about showing off one's individuality and knowledge and connecting with other people who were a part of that niche. I don't think it was only novelty, I think the early internet truly was something special 😢
@Jay-gf8tm
8 ай бұрын
This is the most accurate description I've read yet. It was called "surfing the web" because one thing lead to another and you'd spend hours finding your way to all these places, in the exact way you elaborated.
@4345ghee
8 ай бұрын
@@N99622the way I used to describe it was the internet started going downhill once everyone’s parents and grandparents joined it. But the way you’ve put it is much more comprehensive.
@damagedtalent
8 ай бұрын
Will confirm.
@owlbusdumbledork9966
8 ай бұрын
I was 11 in 2001 when I got my first Windows XP computer, and I had unfettered access to the Internet. It was magical back then, even if young me didn't fully understand it.
@Mad1Artist
8 ай бұрын
Shame we can’t donate to Walter anymore! Looks like a wholesome guy
@DebunkFile
8 ай бұрын
Yeah personally he was my highschool chemistry teacher, a little off the books in his methods but still a swell guy!
@TheSizzleDash
8 ай бұрын
@@DebunkFileI would make a joke but I can’t come up with anything but I love your videos, awesome stuff.
@Corrupted-file
8 ай бұрын
@@DebunkFile “Off the books in his Meth-ods” Nice. 🤘🏼
@cMind607
8 ай бұрын
@@TheSizzleDashhe was my teacher too idk why but we came back from summer break and we’re missing like most of our beakers..
@thelispinglizard5458
8 ай бұрын
He passed away unfortunately
@CadetKippy
8 ай бұрын
MOREEE OF THIS PLEASE!! pre-commodified internet is absolutely incredible - a true testament to human nature. it feels like the spirit of humanity enshrined in pixels. i could look at old websites for hours.
@Corrupted-file
8 ай бұрын
“The spirit of humanity enshrined in pixels” Very nice. 🤘🏼
@qwertydog9795
8 ай бұрын
if you go looking at onion sites some of them are like this..the ones that have nothing to sell and nothing to do except archive things the individual found interesting/important. it's a shame Intel exchange vanished - there was so much weird and wacky bullshit on there and it was so fun to go through
@kilgoretrout413
8 ай бұрын
It took hours just to load the internet in the old days … 👴🏻
@ferret9263
8 ай бұрын
for real, as an '07 kid I've always felt a strange attraction to thing like the early internet, old roblox, older pokemon games, etc. there's just something so nostalgic and forlorn about those kinds of things. however I'm fine with the newer pokemon games, the modern internet tho is infested with those gosh damn singing skibidi toilets and modern roblox is just a corporate dumpster fire, and a shell of what it once was.
@HQ4575
8 ай бұрын
@@kilgoretrout413which made finally getting to that site that's been loading for a couple minutes so much more worth it 😂
@firewarrior1072
8 ай бұрын
I think most of us can agree that the current internet is not the future we wanted. We should look to the past like this, taking the good aspects of this era and combine with what we have now to work towards something better.
@GlennJimenez
8 ай бұрын
What an altruistic view Cheers
@KazmirRunik
8 ай бұрын
That's pretty much what "Web revival" is about
@justaweeb9086
8 ай бұрын
I think I remember hearing about this thing called Ghost net where it's like a backup Internet powered by the people themselves, where you can use your own computer as a server to host you own net/sites. That could probably be implemented too with this alternative internet
@Bobo-ox7fj
8 ай бұрын
@@JamesWagner-vv9iznarcissist tries not to whinge about themselves online for just 30 seconds [impossible] [gone sexual]
@roxycauldwell544
8 ай бұрын
Honestly, just like everything else, once corporations and unhinged old people found how to use the internet it was game over. I remember being like 13 and the only thing parents really cared about was Farmville on Facebook- now they're fluent in all forms of social media and its all nightmare fuel being pumped with fear mongering, misinformation, and advertising.
@codexnecrogeddon
8 ай бұрын
I'm an older millennial, so I lived through the very early stages of the internet. I spent a lot of time on geocities sites, livejournal sites, Pokemon cheats and strategy websites, flash game sites, flash webtoon sites (anyone remember Homestar Runner?), and a number of random forums and chat rooms. It's very nostalgic, but honestly, back then... we spent most of the time on the internet just waiting for things to load.
@middleofnowhere1313
8 ай бұрын
Homeboy Homestar is still running.
@Dumpsterfiregrace
8 ай бұрын
😂 I got my son (now 20) a Cheet stuffie when he was a baby. Now excuse me I have a lightswitch rave to attend.......
@bluetwinkiesaregood
8 ай бұрын
I’m old enough to remember when websites had guest books and web rings.
@MichaelWilliams85
8 ай бұрын
I have similar experiences waiting for Dragon Ball Z pages to load and then wasting a whole pack of ink cartridges printing out pictures of SSJ3 Goku to show all the kids at school
@Tschoii90
8 ай бұрын
Don't forget the counter on the bottom.@@bluetwinkiesaregood
@lazarus8069
8 ай бұрын
Last story was really sad. My heart goes out to the White family. Great video!
@DebunkFile
8 ай бұрын
Hopes and prayers go out to that man!
@KrazyVideoChick
8 ай бұрын
😅😅😅
@Persun_McPersonson
8 ай бұрын
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz ...Huh?
@SvoiChelovek988
8 ай бұрын
@@Mcdonaldsemployee493we know. It is just a joke
@christopher9727
8 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
@JayAymi
8 ай бұрын
Its crazy to hear someone describe what an email is in a time where the whole email-concept was completely new.
@GhostofJamesMadison
8 ай бұрын
Il say this, faxes suuuuucked
@christopher9727
8 ай бұрын
... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
@THICCTHICCTHICC
8 ай бұрын
Weirdest part to me was how much detail there was over things I've never really considered. Emails have always existed to me so I'm not really able to describe them in a way that makes them sound revolutionary
@craigusselman546
8 ай бұрын
I was 13 when the Internet became public sending an email in 1993 was a big deal!
@iwannabethekid34xc
8 ай бұрын
@@GhostofJamesMadison theyre still used too lol.
@ColetteHart
8 ай бұрын
I didn't experience the early part of the Internet, but I was there on the tail end of the wild west era in the early 2000s. It was nice to find and see people who were genuinely passionate about whatever they were talking about and forming small, close-knit communities around it. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. One example, everyone has at least heard about shock sites, less censorship meant it was relatively easy to accidentally run into adult and nsfl content. Sites were full of obnoxious pop up ads with flashing colors and sound that could easily download malware to your computer if you clicked on them. It was also pretty awkward when you were a kid using a public computer to browse a fansite for your favorite TV show or game and a pop up ad for an adult site appeared on the screen.
@DebunkFile
8 ай бұрын
Absolutely. If we ever make another video like this we will likely go over that side of it aswell, as it unfortunately kinda slipped my mind even though I wanted to mention it during early drafts. Appreciate this though!
@soniablanche5672
8 ай бұрын
The old web was so much better when it wasn't monetized. Nothing was centralized, all website looked unique. Security was worse obviously but that's about the only flaw.
@ManiacMayhem7256
8 ай бұрын
Old internet ended 2014 by all means.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
ironically enough it seems way less secure these days with all the geolocation tagging and corporate data ''leaks'' and reselling of data to third parties.....@@soniablanche5672
@SIGSTART
4 ай бұрын
This is a good point. It's easy to have nostalgia goggles when remembering the Good Old Days™ of the Internet, but even back then, some websites were doing obnoxious stuff - usually to push some form of monetization. Whole feature sets in modern browsers owe their existence to blocking pop-ups, pop-unders, and other annoying dark patterns. Torrent sites are like a time capsule in this regard. They still very much look and behave like overly-monetised 2000s websites. But man, I do miss the days where (almost) all web forums weren't Reddit, when IRC was a lightweight app rather than the slow behemoth Discord is becoming, and when people still made websites rather than social media profiles.
@thomas_xsg
6 ай бұрын
The old internet was fascinating, exciting, obscure. Now it’s just a tool. The fact that the old internet was a place to showcase/explore interests as opposed to a commercial one is one of the biggest changes.
@skystoyhunts7225
8 ай бұрын
Furby autopsy is words I'd never thought I'd hear but here I am lol. You can actually do this with 1998s furbies. You have to break the zip tye and unscrew the face screws and cut the strings that hold the ears together and moving and after that you take the fur off and there are screws that keep the shell on it and you take those out and you'll see the insides of the 90s furby. I've only taken the fur off of mine to clean the fur if it's dirty
@randomtinypotatocried
8 ай бұрын
It automatically made me think about some of the unhinge posts from the furby modding community
@artificial-ryan
8 ай бұрын
check out the game tattletail lol
@oyonan
8 ай бұрын
I liked it when people would put “hidden links” on their website. It would likely be a single period that linked to a website or a teeny, tiny picture of a one by one 19:04 pixel, and you’d have to meticulously mouse over every pixel of their page to find it. It wants often worth it, and often you never did find it, but it was fun. Guest books were fun. It was a neat way to leave messages for others, and maybe get some communication back. I wrote an essay in high school in 1996 about how lonely it was online. Everywhere you went, there was evidence of other people, whether it was the content of the page, slow connection speeds due to website traffic, message people left in guest books, but it was lonely because you had no way of actually communicating. It’s like we were all walked off from each other. We did have chat rooms, but those were places specifically set up for it. The rest of the time, you were shoulder to shoulder with people you couldn’t see, hear, interact with, anything at all.
@petalpotionsart
8 ай бұрын
Wow, this video is so nostalgic! Reminds me of being a kid and just browsing whatever the hell the internet had to offer.
@GlennJimenez
8 ай бұрын
It was really quite a ride wasn’t it? It’s hard to describe today what it felt like then. So much felt unknown.
@petalpotionsart
8 ай бұрын
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz Uhhh that WHAT was?
@mechface
8 ай бұрын
i repair and clean 1998 and 99 furbies, so seeing an era accurate website of the same exact thing i do today is actually cool to me
@quantumjourney1
3 ай бұрын
You are evil sir, leave those gremlins in the past where they belong, we only barely survived them
@WildVoltorb
2 ай бұрын
Wait wut
@DanielAusMV-op9mi
2 ай бұрын
Hm that is really cool ❤
@sjzwang
8 ай бұрын
internet veteran here. basically went to a tech oriented school, we had to learn html coding in 6th grade. everyone had their own page with their picture, info, favorite color, and random gifs. I used to binge read a html website that updated regularly. it was called something like obake monogatari, and was a collection of japanese spooky stories. wish I could find that website again but alas no luck, also did you know that AI does not index web 1.0 content?
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
okay then don't use ai then
@MetaLinkuto
8 ай бұрын
Have you tried using reddit to find the website? There are some subreddits dedicated solely to finding lost media
@FloralAndFire
8 ай бұрын
I feel like there's no accurate way to describe what the old internet was like unless you were there. It just felt so raw and new and lawless. One could learn code from a friend and make something anyone in the world could find. The mid to late 90s and especially early 2000 was a lightning in a bottle experience people will never get again. It was Humanity changing.
@rdred8693
Ай бұрын
I loved it. Gen X, and I just remember the awe I felt finding other people that had the same interests as me. I miss geocities , angelfire, and livejournal
@I_Stern
25 күн бұрын
Try Neocities. 👍
@caralhogames533
8 ай бұрын
that last one is so sad, having a family member, especially a parent suffer from illnesses is so hard to deal with emotionally, i hope Walter White is doing ok nowadays
@Corrupted-file
8 ай бұрын
You might want to sit down; I have some bad news for you…
@randomtinypotatocried
8 ай бұрын
@@Corrupted-fileIt must be bad news if he's from New Mexico lol
@ChillFuel
8 ай бұрын
Damn, this video is so much cooler than I thought it would be. Its so interesting to see what people thought the internet would end up being like back then.
@DebunkFile
8 ай бұрын
Absolutely, I’m glad you enjoyed!!
@tifKh
8 ай бұрын
I’m 37, guessing a little older than you. Thank you for giving me a new perspective, I guess I really was there when it was becoming accessible in households. My dad’s job afforded us a computer before most people, and he was an engineer and into gaming, so that increased my exposure- I never thought of how that really can set me apart from people who literally grew up WITH it, I watched it’s birth into the
@jamieweatherwalk2752
8 ай бұрын
I'm a coupleyears older than you and the first time I was ever in a chat room was like 1996 or 97 through aim. I was a teenager. It was definitely different back then. We went from dial up, to what we have now in like 3 decades .
@omega3fatass61
8 ай бұрын
@@jamieweatherwalk2752awesome, had no clue aim was around that far back
@BierBart12
8 ай бұрын
Oh no, the Microsoft assassins got to him before he could finish the comment lol
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
I was born in 1991 and had a computer since i was like 3 or something
@Beeraltar
8 ай бұрын
He says he grew up with KZitem so I guess he is actually rather young
@mistydayremainsofthejudgment
8 ай бұрын
as someone who did grow up on 90s internet, i miss it all the time. it was such a different experience. i miss when the web was not constrained to the same 10ish sites.
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
what? constrained to 10ish sites? there's NO limit! The Internet, if anything, has been expanding to the point where there are MORE websites!
@rickyeska1
8 ай бұрын
It's crazy how many more people are online but it feels smaller. I saw a graph recently that showed nearly all internet activity is linked to the big sites like facebook,IG,Twitter, ect
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
You have no idea@@shadowchasernql
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
Name 10 websites that you visit frequently @@shadowchasernql
@skree_fpv436
8 ай бұрын
This was a really fun video! I first got the internet (AOL) in early 1995 when I was still in High School. I don't think AOL was even connected to the world wide web yet. What really impressed me was the chatrooms. The idea that I could talk to a bunch of people at once, from all around the country in real time using the computer was wild to me. I used to spend so much time in them chatting with others. I know that sounds ridiculous today but it seemed so futuristic to me back then.
@Lilnaomi3
8 ай бұрын
I'm not sure about 95 but in 96 you could use Japanese websites. There were people sharing things like the english page of hitoshi doi in the Japanimation Station board.
@Gatorade69
8 ай бұрын
If you were connected to AOL then you were connected to the internet/world wide web. AOL just had their program that kind of sandboxed you into AOL services/sites. If you were to bring up Internet Explorer you could browse like normal.
@elizabethmacpherson0989
8 ай бұрын
It was so fun! “asl” forever immortalized in my head 😂
@skree_fpv436
8 ай бұрын
@@elizabethmacpherson0989 I recently saw a comment that said "That's cool asl". I was confused at first until I found out the kids use it nowadays to mean "as hell'.
@Chayliss
6 ай бұрын
My buddy used half his parents checking account numbers and make up the rest to get on AOL. Found bbbs through him. Got a cc.generator while connected to the internet though a bbb. Was on AOL for years for free. At first those accounts lasted 6 months, then a month, finally they figures it out. Warez rooms. Games movies and.music heheh
@cheshirepat30
8 ай бұрын
I first got on the Internet in 1994 when I went to college. It was the Wild West. There was no google or KZitem. More importantly, anyone could make their own website. Every internet service provider would give you space. I learned HTML and started making websites for everyone! It was fun because of the animations mentioned in this video.
@Vascularityisgood70
4 ай бұрын
Google came out in 1997 And youtube was released in 2005 But the internet was still good the entirety of the 2000s It got bad in the mid 2010s onwards
@Duckz4bucks
4 күн бұрын
@@Vascularityisgood70yeah, but the downfall started earlier than that arguably
@Ed_Stuckey
8 ай бұрын
Being 80 and having a lifelong interest in electronics, I was 'into' computers long before the IBM PC came to market. I got online in 1995 via 28.8k dialup. I kinda watched it all happen and participated a little bit. Back in the 90s, I had a bit of free web space associated with my IP account. I put up a genealogy web page or two that I had written using Notepad. I'm pretty sure I still have a small graphic that I displayed in the corner of the home page saying [created with NotePad]
@cobymudgett8804
8 ай бұрын
I miss this old Internet. 35 years old. And the 90s and Internet were peak nostalgia for me. I miss the 90s. Also you got a new subscriber today
@DoritosBurger
8 ай бұрын
Same here man. I will cherish those memories for as long as I live. It’s crazy that we were alive when this technology was first just taking off.
@Anonymous121212
8 ай бұрын
Ahh I remember how back then we called fanmade websites "shrines" and instead of image tabs we had "galleries." There were also turnpikes and webrings which are just collections of links like masterlists but in comic sans and curlz. And ofc we had tiled wallpapers and loud MIDI automatically playing. The net is more efficient now but it's so soulless with its sterile muted monochrome colors and minimalism. Probably why the loud and over-saturated vaporwave aesthetic is still so popular.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
God MIDIs used to be so effin cool
@Dipsoid
8 ай бұрын
Holy shit, webrings, you just unlocked a deep memory from me.
@madambluewave
8 ай бұрын
I'm 52, so I saw all of this happen and it was really cool that there was such personal sites out there, but when the internet first came out, we were all really dumbfounded as to what we were supposed to do with it lol so you had Gen X and the beginning of millennials finding a place where they could pour out all of their creativity, and we didn't have as much ways to communicate back then, so it was crazy to think anyone else would be visiting your site. It's like most of the personal pages were homage to whatever you were into, never really thinking anyone else would be into it.
@indridcold3762
5 ай бұрын
The internet became a known commodity around 1994 when I was 17. I have to say it was a very weird and dream like place. It was almost like one big liminal space.
@mathieuleader8601
8 ай бұрын
I find the old dial up sound for connecting to the internet to be very comforting
@magaz
8 ай бұрын
My favourite memories from the early 2000’s are community forums. So much has moved into Facebook groups these days and the community feel you’d get in a forum just isn’t there anymore. I remember the good ol days of the “ol’ blue” Airsoft forums. Talking to the regulars on there then meeting up and shooting them once a month. It was amazing
@Diegoddk
8 ай бұрын
this is the only reply that sounds like the thing I remember... nobody edited html files, they hosted phpbb templates and some created blogger posts. But at that time internet was so good, that even those small websites had huge communities of people. it was amazing
@HannahandCailinLoesch
8 ай бұрын
Honestly wild how the first site that came up in your search was a bird owner’s blog about their pets, because a very similar site - called LisaShay - was the first thing that came to mind when you were describing your own internet exploration as a kid. We had pet birds when we were little and it was our favorite website…and set up almost exactly like the one you found with stories and photos, etc! Not sure if it’s still around. Miss that simple era of the internet :’)
@98Zai
7 ай бұрын
I remember there were TONS of sites about pets. It was almost a 50/50 chance of any website having a page about their pets. So many guinea pigs and cats.
@DarkwaveMistress
8 ай бұрын
My fondest memory of the old internet is an mailing list dedicated to an anime I used to love. It was the first time I ever got involved in a fandom, and I made my first internet friends there. We had a ton of fun, talked everyday, shared fanart, fanfiction, roleplay, and just fun conversations. It all began to dwindle till no one replied anymore and mailing lists stopped being a thing. I still remember them very fondly.
@GangstaSparkleFairy
8 ай бұрын
I was in a few video games/ jrpg related groups and I have such good memories of finally meeting others who shared my interests. The early internet was great for socially awkward kids like myself back then (still awkward but kind of old now.) Also, in the mid-late 90's yahoo chatrooms were a big thing for me. Ah, nostalgia...
@DarkwaveMistress
8 ай бұрын
@@GangstaSparkleFairy Yeah, it was the place we could go to for anonymity yet sharing our interests with openness and sincerity. I really miss the days when people didn't ask for your social media and you could be a little silly and overly excited about things in peace.
@AWhiteNovember
8 ай бұрын
That last one. That was very sweet of him. Mr White is so blessed to have a son like that.🤍
@thunderczar9272
8 ай бұрын
As someone who grew up with the budding internet, the big thing I remember was how difficult it was to find anything. Today we have places to go and things to do with social media, vast amounts of word-of-mouth knowledge and advertising, but when it was just a wild west of people making pages, you really didn't have any direction to find anything unless you had heard of something through a friend. Typing in random web addresses was a dangerous game and could get you face to face with something you didn't want to see. This was a very cool video! Incredibly interesting to take a look back before technology developed into what we know now.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
That's because you didn't know how to google properly A lot of people struggled with this I never had a problem finding information on the internet until 2016 and onwards...
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
or you mean like, before google? lol
@thunderczar9272
8 ай бұрын
@@RobotronSage Yep, this was before Google, my man. 🤘
@emanuel_soundtrack
2 ай бұрын
Alta vista
@dyrr836
6 ай бұрын
As someone who spent a lot of time on the 90s internet, thank you for posting this. It makes me glad to know that future generations will keep this era/style of the web alive. As long as people like you are here to preserve it, that spirit will never die. I'm so happy to see younger folks keeping that light alive. Who knows, maybe the increasingly corporate internet will actually inspire a boom in popularity for the spirit of web 1.0 As for a memory I have, I remember first discovering fanfiction and genuinely had my mind blown. I remember reading fanfics for old early-mid 90s cartoons and thinking they must have been "secret" episodes that just hadn't aired yet or weren't allowed to air because of how edgy they were. When I figured out they were written by normal fans of the shows, I thought it was the craziest thing ever especially as someone who was obsessed with creative writing as a kid.
@Dmckenzie6
8 ай бұрын
I know I'm getting old when "old internet" is just stuff I grew up with.
@volk4523
8 ай бұрын
Mood.
@bnsyphotography2104
8 ай бұрын
what do you mean "mood"?@@volk4523
@bobhope4949
8 ай бұрын
It’s like hd tv, the lack of quality made it better lol
@4345ghee
8 ай бұрын
We didn’t know it was a lack of quality back then. Back then, that was as good as it got! Same way 144p videos were once considered great quality because there was nothing better at the time. Then 240p came along and made 144p look like potato
@chief3619
5 ай бұрын
I came to the same realization the first time I heard Enter Sandman on the oldies station lol.
@zenniththefolf4888
8 ай бұрын
CoolMathGames first launched in 1997, honestly some of the most fun I've had on the internet, especially as a young kid.
@psychedelicpiper999
7 ай бұрын
Man, you’ve got a deep voice for someone who grew up using KZitem as a kid. KZitem didn’t truly take off until I was in 8th grade. I don’t recall using it before then. I’m 31 now. Downloading RealPlayer videos, Windows Media Player videos, MPG videos (AVI files didn’t work for me, since there was no player for them on Macs), MP3 files, JPG files, GIF files, listening to a Japanese Pokemon online radio station on Live365, watching Flash animation series like Homestar Runner and Amy Winfrey’s series, playing Shockwave Flash games, downloading SNES emulator files and text-based walkthroughs - that there was my childhood. The pre-KZitem and pre-social media Internet was quite a wild ride, and there are methods of entertainment that I don’t feel like a lot of my peers were even aware were possible back then. Despite the slow connection, the lack of HD video, and the lack of streaming, you could pretty much do most things back then that you can now. By 1999, the basic framework and building blocks of the Internet were already established. It wasn’t just text and images like most people believe.
@soulofastro
8 ай бұрын
I was there in the beginning. It's hard to describe how isolated and small life felt before the internet.
@codyryanlewis
8 ай бұрын
my step-grandmother first introduced me to the internet ( i was born in the early 90s) and i remember her sitting me on her lap while she typed on her keyboard on a website, eventually her "saving" and previewing the website that pretty much looked like all of these - designed with more of a sunflower/hippy vibe and detailing her life and hobbies - more like blogging (before that was an actual thing) and I WOULD GIVE MY WHOLE LIFE right now to be able to read or even take a small glimpse of that webpage today. I didn't much get to know or spend a lot of time with her - i think in her own small way she was writing that because she knew she didn't have much time left and wanted at least someone to run across the page to put herself out into the online world hoping we (her family - kids or grandchildren, etc) would come across it one day. i think she is where my love for computers and technology came from, i eventually started coding in school - as with everyone else my age but this video gave me so much nostalgia from watching and made me feel like I am one of the rare ones who grew up with the internet and can see how far it has come - you've gained a subscriber today. thank you for these feelings!
@dwartbg1
4 ай бұрын
You know about the wayback machine? This website has a chance to have been archived tbere, as long as you manage to find it. If you want give me some names or just hints and I will try to help
@codyryanlewis
4 ай бұрын
@@dwartbg1I've tried that website and even trying to find any clues as to what it was by googling, thanks for your comment but I've exhausted all of my resources to find the website. I was a kid back then so it was in the early 90s. It also doesn't help that now days there a lot more well known people with the same name. but thank you!
@rdred8693
Ай бұрын
Did you click on the site above? I bet you can find it.
@codyryanlewis
Ай бұрын
@@rdred8693 yeah i thought i had replied, must have not went all the way through but i’ve tried it, no luck but thanks guys!
@cryptidbunny8791
8 ай бұрын
In the late 90's when I was a teenager, I found a site belonging to a MIDI composer. The guy was pretty good, I even downloaded a couple of his MIDIs and converted them so I could listen to them on an mp3 player. The site was last updated in 2003, and I occasionally like to check and see if the site is still there (as of posting this, it's still there). It's how I get a glimpse back at how the internet was when I was young.
@skootergirl22
8 ай бұрын
I was a teen during the 2000s
@ivanzrilic1516
8 ай бұрын
What's the name of the site?
@nick56677
4 ай бұрын
Site name plz
@shadowledastray
4 ай бұрын
Oh yeah, googling "MIDI music" is good way to find old school web pages. "Toasterhead's MIDI site" is one I remember by name and still up (last updated in 2000).
@CupidsJerboa
8 ай бұрын
As a furby collector, skinning furbys is actually very common still (I have a skinned one I need to work on currently lol,) usually we skin them for repairs, but I’ve seen some people do it for art projects too! You can find tons of modern sites talking about skinning furbs, and once you get used to it they actually look really funny without their fur, my mom thinks they look like robotic flies
@will-love-lvx
6 ай бұрын
Interesting hobby!
@carrieonly5638
8 ай бұрын
I was there at the dawn of the internet. This video made me feel old :)
@DebunkFile
8 ай бұрын
We hope we sparked some nostalgia from this video! Was meant to bring those who experienced back and show what was missed to the newer generation!
@sandrafaith
8 ай бұрын
Same, same
@WrestlingColin
8 ай бұрын
Just today I donated to Internet Archive and was talking to a friend about the “death” of the real internet. Good timing.
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
Neat how the Internet has died and yet you're still somehow on it.
@WrestlingColin
8 ай бұрын
@@shadowchasernql crazy how you somehow managed to misinterpret two sentences.
@Duckz4bucks
4 күн бұрын
@@WrestlingColinthat’s what the “internet” has done to us Edit: sorry for necro
@whyccan9063
8 ай бұрын
Hey, thank you for presenting Neocities to me As a visual artist I've been yearning for freedom from Instagram for a long time, especially with their terms over image ownership becoming gradually more blurred and shady. I considered opening a personal blog various times, but to do it with blogger or wordpress only gets me pretty much in the same spot regarding the internet monopoly. Great to see projects like neocities becoming a thing. I just truly hope it's not destined to become what it swore to confront...
@randomtinypotatocried
8 ай бұрын
I kinda want to check it out as a visual artist myself
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
You could have always had your own website.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
Learn how to use a machine as a server Register a domain Learn how to make websites ??? Profit?!
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
@@RobotronSage i mean i guess. Neocities just sucks ass
@sboochek
7 ай бұрын
I do not comment often on YT, but this video touched my soul! I was like 12 when I first went to internet, it was this small public room in National museum, and we were chatting in MiRC or how was it called. Than I ofcourse remember our first internet at home at around 15, when you could not call if you wanted to browse. And the last memory of this can not exclude porn. I remember printing black and white papers of naked women, and oh man, how long was one picture loading (literally, pixel by pixel) :D Oh yeah, the wierd but good old times :)
@98Zai
7 ай бұрын
LOL yeah pictures would take a long time to load, sometimes pausing for some reason or failing to load midway. It was frustrating. I also remember there being troll images where the "important part" was basically a rick-roll and you had to wait like 30 seconds before you would know.
@Lxthargy
Күн бұрын
That tick sound at 3:50 is the exact same alert sound that my local surgery uses, and it honestly gave me some sort of strange childhood nostalgia. I'm not sure what it's from but it's just reminded me of visiting the doctors as a child, something I *always* loved.
@christopherleadholm6677
8 ай бұрын
"Since I was a kid I was watching KZitem videos" Jesus christ, kid.... 🤦♂️
@amoureux6502
4 ай бұрын
I'm very sorry to tell you KZitem is almost 20 years old
@The_One_Over_There
2 ай бұрын
i guess you think that people in their 20's, possibly early 30's, are still childeren..... Because i was only 11 years old when KZitem came around, but i'm 30 now. I was very much a kid back than, but there's no way in hell i'm still a kid today.
@emanuel_soundtrack
2 ай бұрын
I used internet before youtube, downloading from napster
@Spasmaticus
8 ай бұрын
It was a simpler time back then, there weren't 5 gigantic corporations controlling the majority of the content. Every visit to the web had a purpose, it was rejuvenating - not mindnumbing like it is today. One of my first internet memories were connecting an old laptop to the phone modem, to play simple games, like browser based RPGs or a tank game on Netscapes home page. That was the first era, the era of small content creators, small sites, a fragmented landscape open to exploration. Second era was the professionalization and clustering of larger communities. Pre-facebook social medias basically. Things got much more aesthetic. Third era is where we are now, fully bloomed social medias, global communities, few original creators (most content is regurgitated), fewer and larger corporations in the background controlling everything. More censorship and control.
@johnson941
8 ай бұрын
I immediately tried the Wiby search engine like you did in the video, and I am not kidding when I say that the first website it redirected me to was literally a 11th of september 2001 debunking site, it looked like. It was a very weird rabbit hole, since there was hundreds of pictures with text "debunking" what they contained as well as some hour long interviews with the author.
@Tschoii90
8 ай бұрын
_Alex Jones has joined the channel._
@hannahg5216
7 ай бұрын
Feeling lucky?
@pinkpalace6117
2 ай бұрын
Yeah what was that about 😅 I never clicked it
@Akyuz1000
10 күн бұрын
Well do ya Punk? Hehe.
@opal_2476
8 ай бұрын
Never seen a video better reflecting my thoughts on the old web, this geniuenly made me emotional at one point. Thank you.
@Izelor
5 ай бұрын
The Internet is practically dead. Companies have taken hold of it and there is little to no freedom to be had. 5 years ago I joked that we would soon need a new "internet" to escape the current one. I hope that someone out there will be able to make it happen.
@Duckz4bucks
4 күн бұрын
I wish, but I feel like this it, we have arrived
@cursedseagullgames
8 ай бұрын
I think my favorite thing was the old sims sites for custom content, as some people used Geocities to host their cc and stories for the sims. Another thing I miss are now some of the old dress up and sprite maker sites, since some of the ones I had liked were tied to Geocities as well.
@JK-gm6kk
8 ай бұрын
It's been weird for my 1987 born ass, for sure. My parents were early adopters of the internet because of me, in the AOL 2/3.0 days. We had broadband by like 2002, as well. But I still raced BMX bikes on the weekends, tore around the back yard on my kx 80, and all kinds more outdoor activities. I feel like I was probably part of the last generation to actually do both, or close to it.
@JK-gm6kk
8 ай бұрын
I was one of those kids into progs/punters warez aka a script kiddie that was actually a kiddie. I was so bummed when AOL managed to make the IM basically punter proof
@brandon9172
8 ай бұрын
Kids still do both. At least zoomers. I was born in 2002, and I and everyone I knew did both, but I live in a very rural area with 5k people spread across a dozen or so towns. What you gotta take into account is the urbanization rate. Cities and suburbs have gotten denser, and rural areas have largely stagnated or declined. Its hard to do outdoor activities as a kid when there are no outdoors. Can't dirt bike when everything's asphalt and concrete.
@s0ular
8 ай бұрын
Something I miss most are the websites dedicated to specific fandoms without any motive of monetization. Whether it be a specific show, movie, band, game, or whatever. Hunting down sites that had info, images, wavs, and the rare gif library was such a treat. To add, these sites usually had a single owner that would provide their email address for correspondence, so it was never hard to communicate with the creator directly.
@scottbrydle8758
Ай бұрын
I guarantee I used Rei's bird page when it was new. I was obsessed with birds as a kid and my dad helped me research them on our dial up internet and I spent hours on cheap, simple geocities sites looking up random facts and pictures of people's pet birds. Damn. Amazing.
@krbzosi
8 ай бұрын
i really love your channel. this video was so cool. so nostalgic. even though - just like you - i didnt get to experience this old internet myself, it all feels so nostalgic. spent some time myself on that website, checking out old webpages and it was a good wayto spend some time
@IneptOrange
4 ай бұрын
I unironically used Furby Autopsy a few weeks ago not knowing how ancient it was. I went on a sperg-spree of trying to learn everything about the Furby's operating system, and actually ended up using some of that website without realizing it was actually old as hell and not someone's stylised personal website/blog.
@marigojiratari
8 ай бұрын
This really took me back to the time when I had a dial tone I would muffle with blankets and pillows to obsessively refresh message boards ❤ looking forward to more of these
@skifihls6858
6 ай бұрын
You mean disconnect/reconnect? I miss the old dial up sound. It was like the equivalent the ignition of a rocket launch that was just about to lift off. Except if someone picked up the phone it was ruined.
@Kate2102360
8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. I've always wondered if there's anybody else that misses the old internet so much. I grew up in China and has fuzzy memories of being able to go to google and youtube before everything was blocked off, those times were fun and scary, almost like exploring uncharted land and you never know what you may encounter with the next link that pops up....I miss that feeling so much😢
@Personb-yt7hu
8 ай бұрын
4:06 it always confused me that oil paintings were so specifically used as images in the early internet on more grounded sites like this.
@RussellB
8 ай бұрын
dude thank you so much for posting this. I remembered I had a webpage for my art from 2000 on, and I was able to download some of my 3D computer animation which I thought was embarrassing enough to let die. Now there is a nostalgic appreciation for the look of early 3D animation so I'm going to upload them to youtube despite how bad they are
@GangstaSparkleFairy
8 ай бұрын
This really takes me back. There's just something about those old, cheap looking, poorly designed websites from the internet's (and my own) youth.
@tumundodotorg
5 ай бұрын
I remember and experienced the old internet… being high and watching this impacted my nostalgia like crazy… both in fondness and sadness
@Lilnaomi3
8 ай бұрын
The furby autopsy page was on my local news. People had big concerns about them being listening devices, it was pretty wild.
@bossmangaming666
8 ай бұрын
Back in circa 1997 I'd never used the internet but was vaguely aware of its existence, I was in my early teens and had been a fan of 90's manga and anime for a few years already. Living in the countryside in the UK it was very scarce and hard to come by. I remember the first time ever using the internet at school and suddenly realising that there might be other manga anime fans online, and to my delight I found hundreds. A whole new world opened up to me that day, they were all Geocities fan sites and art galleries. Thousands of pieces of artwork, character designs and series I'd never heard of before. It seems crazy now, but in that moment as a kid, my whole world seemed to change.
@tubeyou8623
8 ай бұрын
The old internet was like going on an adventurous exploration of the unknown.
@MrFIRESEAL117
8 ай бұрын
I first logged on to the internet in 1998, I was 14. my dad just brought home our fist computer that was built at a PC convention at our local Sports plus (like Dave and Busters). Some notable memories at that time were - 1. Experiencing AIM, AOL/Yahoo chat rooms for the first time, realizing I wasn't the only one into the X-Files in my area and joining a corresponding chat room. 2. Combing the internet for Mega Man Sprite sheets. 3. Playing my first online match of Command and Conquer, then having my mom pick up the phone, costing me the game, Lol. 4. The Advent of GameFAQ's. A godsend for walkthroughs and cheats. 5. Visiting Newgrounds daily for Flash games and animations. the KZitem of its day where artists simply made content for the sheer Joy of it. The internet of the 90s and early 2000s Was a new experience we were all figuring out together. It definitely was fun Navigating Uncharted waters.
@jonnaking3054
5 ай бұрын
I first get the internet back in 1996 when I was about 15, I just remember it being like a "maze" so to speak. You could get into some really "bizarre" places lol
@MebiManga
8 ай бұрын
This video made me reflect on the fun experience online when I was younger - when there were few or no bots in the websites I visited or games I played, and when everything wasn't commodified. People just came together to share their thoughts, create small communities, and had fun making friends.
@8ava8198
8 ай бұрын
that Internet Explorer website was really onto something...
@chrisramsey6725
8 ай бұрын
This brings back memories. I was lucky enough to be in high school at the time the web became mainstream. Went to College in the late 90s and got to see the whole evolution of what we now take for granted.
@violentincantation
8 ай бұрын
something i really miss from the old days of the internet was all the japanese webrings dedicated to fanart & fanfics of games & other media. seeing people's old art was always fun. i always liked looking at the pokemon focused ones.
@tifKh
8 ай бұрын
I loved webrings- clicking next next next, want there a random option too?
@KOTEBANAROT
28 күн бұрын
Going through webrings was so amazing and cool. So much cool and truly rare fanart.
@iainlaurence
8 ай бұрын
In the early 2000's, I used to find histories of different models of cars online on various web 1.0 blogs, each specific to that kind of car, with lots of interesting photos to go along with the text. Going to all those different blogs to find information was a different, more decentralized way of online researching than what we do today, with wikipedia and other similar sites that have information of everything in one place. I specifically remember a website about the history of the Volkswagen Bus and another one of the Toyota 4Runner, but haven't been able to find those same websites on more recent searches. I do remember that the Volkwagen Bus site was originally in Dutch, and only about half of it was translated to English.
@GengoSenmon
8 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention an important detail about the reality of the internet back then that Gen Z and Gen A should also know. You had to pay per hour of use back then (plus the hardware and monthly subscriptions were more expensive for the average consumer relative to today). Otherwise there would have been MUCH more content created back then.
@98Zai
7 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember ADSL being a holy grail. Imagine being able to be logged in more than 1 hour per day!??!?!?
@xboyertownx
8 ай бұрын
Discovery was really interesting back then. I remember being in middle school in late 90s and surfing sites like Nick at Nite and listening to short sanford and son clips. Music was still obscure and early file trading took dedication. Simple times at times take a bit more work.
@Universexy1
5 ай бұрын
The old internet was like being an alien discovering the human race for the first time.
@hen334
2 ай бұрын
This is what I was looking for literally the only feeling i get and I love it.
@KarlWitsman
8 ай бұрын
Those were the days! Being a young adult when the Internet came around, I went through BBS systems, Quantum Link, Compuserve, GEnie, and AOL, then finally cable internet. I don't know if any of my old HTML pages exist out there, but perhaps?
@GalenIRL
7 ай бұрын
whats up with the random reverb
@sophiestanculescu2635
3 ай бұрын
thank you for this video, it was very comforting and endearing. I started using the internet around 97-98 at about 10 years old. I remember, of course, the cohabitation with landline, and limited hours per month. I remember a disney website with games, especially one with a fridge and some kind of sentient moldy food. A bit later on, when I was maybe 12-14 I remember a forum based upon the Harry Potter world, which I joined as a demonology teacher. I remember researching intensely to write lessons, and role playing. I also remember teachers considering wikipedia an unreliable source for papers. Fun times indeed! I'll definitely go have some fun on wiby
@0bits_1
6 ай бұрын
In a lot of ways, I'm glad I was a child/teenager in a time before everyone had a computer in their home, and when almost nobody I knew had access to the internet. When I was growing up, nobody I knew had Cellphones (Smartphones weren't even a thing yet), and Social-Media didn't exist. If you wanted to socialize, then it was done in person or via Landline. If you bumped into a friend or family member you hadn't seen in a while, you genuinely had some catching up to do. People had less, but they also had less to worry about, and so what little they had made them happier and they'd squeeze more enjoyment out of it. Everybody wasn't in everybody else's daily issues. Privacy was still a real, tangible part of daily life. You could still have fun and get away with stuff. Movies were generally better and with regards to the videogames, you'd hear a little bit in the early days of development and then you wouldn't hear anything else until a trailer dropped and a release date was set. With the advent of the internet, Social-Media and IoT Devices, we've seen the rise of 'keyboard warriors' flaming and doxxing people simply for having a different, alternate opinion that they don't agree with, and the situation whereby anybody with an opinion or agenda has free [SIC] access to a platform from which to spread their message/s. Nowadays we're in a situation whereby 'entertainment' is either filtered through the same 'rinse and repeat' process in order to enter mainstream access/visibility, or it's 'cancelled' or buried by groups and/or AI algorithms if it doesn't fit a certain, currently acceptable, tried and tested mould. Entertainment has gone from being creative, relatively cheap and willing to experiment or put forth new ideas, to being repetitive, expensive, and terrified of setting a foot wrong. Comedy has gone down a similar route. Last time I even glanced at a comedy channel, it was predominantly populated by Middle-class, pseudo-intellectuals, each of whom had a face like a smacked arse and very little of worth to actually say. There are still some great Comedians around who are broadly genuinely funny and give 'food for thought' as it were without being preachy, but - compared to their earlier material - even they have cow-towed to the fear of verbally 'getting out of line'. Personally, I think the Internet and World Wide Web have created just as many negatives as they have positives.
@Rupninjatrash
8 ай бұрын
My favorite old website is the Van der Graaf Generator one. The band never made any official web pages, and they link to that fan site in their albums even to this day.
@PenguTT44-sh2oe
4 ай бұрын
I just miss the middle age in the 00's when we would all just hangout on some small forum for some specefic topic we were into. What a time it was for computing.
@DKC_Returns
2 ай бұрын
One of my favorite websites was one devoted to Dragon Ball Z that showed how the show was censored and changed for the US. My mind was blown. I remember you could mouse over images from the show, and they would change to the uncensored versions. One of the most well-crafted pages I ever went to. Shoutout to the author.
@sugarbunify
4 ай бұрын
I was there! This was my internet. 🥰 This whole video was a nice trip back into nostalgic times. It really, really was different back then. ♥ Thanks for sharing your journey.
@Gheston
5 ай бұрын
I was born in 1991. I remember from very early on in my life, being on and seeing the internet go from a dial up connection, to what we have today. And as a kid, the concept of the internet to me was huge. It was a way to connect, to learn, to express. It felt like the future and it was. Sometimes I’ll watch old nostalgia videos or videos like yours, and it really does take me back to simpler times. A guilty internet pleasure playing a web browser based game, Neopets. And watch the Disney channel original series “So Weird” the big draw to that show, was that the main character used tech to help aid her paranormal research (which was very cool at the time lol)
@blacklabel9739
8 ай бұрын
Great video topic guys. Awesome to see that some of the old internet is still getting attention. You two might have the beginning of another series that can go alongside your deep dives.
@adaniel2929
5 ай бұрын
Half the fun was figuring everything out. As a kid it was easy to understand that "hey we're hooking up the computer to where the telephone goes" so it was all about seeing where you could go and what you could do. As for the internet today I don't really think it got worse in any way. It was often frustrating finding something you were looking for back then and today it's all within reach (and free). The internet is just a tool to connect and if anything it was just too useful to not absorb our way of life. It sucked up everything it could and then smart phones took our life outside the house. Don't worry about missing out on this bygone era of the internet, as cool as it was, because life before the internet absorbed it is what you really missed. PS: Internet users of the 90s wanted a future where the internet was used by everyone and for everything. We DID get what we wanted...
@KyleJWest-vn9kn
8 ай бұрын
As someone who grew up on the "old internet" I've felt for a while now that the magic of the internet is long gone. I'm sure part of it is nostalgia but it really did feel like an adventure when logging onto the internet was something you actively chose to do. You sat down on the computer and chose to go online, instead of it being what it is today... this ambiguous thing that's always available and always on. You don't "log" online anymore. Somehow that made it different. It also felt much bigger than what it does today. You had all kinds of personal blogs and different message boards. And sure, Reddit exists but it's not quite the same.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
No they literally deleted ''internet 1.0'' as in they actually tried deleting and replacing the fecking internet that's why it all looks dead and soulless now cause it's all just corporate filler content....
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
A lot of this is googles fault its like they figured they wasnt making enough money directing people to other peoples website so they deleted the cache and decided they only wanted to direct everyone, the whole internet, to google related ''services''. Basically instead of being a search engine they seem to be trying to be the only website / corporation on the internet... ?? Which is obviousy stupid, we should probably boycott google. I mean think about it it's as thought they saw everyone elses webpages as competition so they stopped being a search engine for other people Basically antithetical to the internet as a concept tbh.
@darrinlambert1314
3 ай бұрын
as an elder Netizen, I made Geocities websites for my IRC chat room RPG characters. they were glorified character sheets but I loved them. We had medieval, modern, superheroes, and Lovecraftian horror. The only way to find them was to share them on the web with friends and foes alike. It boiled down to people "hooking up" and being internet RPG soap operas. Incredible days to be alive. being not an adult but saying you were and trying to mack on people who claimed to be the opposite sex but....I dunno, probably weren't. Wow, I just got nostalgic, hard.
@InsertNameHere.1719
3 ай бұрын
“Sighhh” what a time man. It was such a journey traversing the old net as a kid. It’s actually the reason why I got into programming and hacking. Good times man
@MrDaddynomates
7 ай бұрын
Love this video. It takes me back to the early 90s. I remember when the Internet was new. I was the only person out of all my friends and family who used the net. The sound of the dialup tones😊. It was the wild west era of the Internet. Now it's a whole different place. I'm glad I was there at the beginning.
@mizosis
26 күн бұрын
I wish I could have experienced the old internet in its prime. It felt like everyone was closely knit and there was so much to explore. I think I only go on three websites daily on average; KZitem, Tumblr and Google. Everything feels kind of cold and lonely, but when I go on old websites or go on the Wayback machine, I get a sense of nostalgia and comfort from something I never even got to experience. I'm only nineteen as of now, I've only been on the internet for about eleven years of my life thus far, and even in those eleven years the internet feels more bleak, cold and corporate than it used to...
@mr13karrot
4 ай бұрын
Albino Blacksheep was *THE* internet page for me back then… it really captured that old internet melancholy and wonder.
@michaels_madness
8 ай бұрын
Born in 90, I got to witness some of the coolest parts of the internet. Some of the coolest times in human history (I'm sure I'm biased a bit)
@lizabeth1428
8 ай бұрын
My fondest memories of the old internet are the parrot forums. I think it's really cool you included one of the earlier parrot blogs. There used to be these great forums and active communities for hobbyists that have disappeared because of larger forum based websites (reddit). I used to go to a budgie specific website where budgie owners would share tips and tricks. I remember moving over to /r/parrots and being super stoked but now I kind of just wish I had my super niche specific forums back on their own websites. They were never geared towards monetization.
@shadowchasernql
8 ай бұрын
they.... they still exist.....
@lizabeth1428
8 ай бұрын
@@shadowchasernql it is not the same.
@RobotronSage
8 ай бұрын
Yeah remember when moderation used to actually be a pretty big deal? Like these communities were always really well regulated and not in an intrusive manner such as ''the corporations'' do I believe our mistake was ''buying into'' these corporate f*ing ''websites'' These aren't websites, they're corporate slop designed to look like websites Basically homonculi ''websites''
@Ace01010
8 ай бұрын
I found one about salior moon and its was made back in 1998 as a blog and it still had upload from 2023 on it, same old school design and all. pretty dope!
@98Zai
7 ай бұрын
I remember the word "geocities" used to give me so much nostalgia. It's now been so long that it doesn't trigger anything in my brain anymore. My body and brain has changed all it's cells and it's no longer part of me.
@Sl1kz
4 ай бұрын
No single ad.. that was so peaceful
@visionplusdrive
8 ай бұрын
I experienced the beginning of the internet, all of these old webpages I remember distinctly surfing them via 56k dial-up. The internet used to be a place you logged in and out of, and not everyone had access to it. In the 90's, it was the wild wild west. Now, the internet is everything... everywhere, all at once. It's intertwined with almost every aspect of our lives
@jasonmillers6941
7 ай бұрын
I started doing web design in 2004. I have since evolved with the times - with the scripts and certificates. This video has reignited the nostalgia of wanting to create a script-free website which at this day and age would probably only take a few minutes.
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