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25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

Some memories from the glory days of the internet.

By Toonacious

Published 2 years ago in Feels

Some memories from the glory days of the internet.

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    The internet has changed a whole lot over the years, and it can be hard to remember that time back when the internet was still in its fledgling stages. That being said, there is no doubt that those were some of the best times. Here are some things from that glorious time recalled by the people of AskReddit that you'll only remember if you're a true internet veteran.

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "When Amazon just sold books."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "When we used to risk getting viruses just to get cool cursors."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "If going on a long car journey, having to print off directions from MapQuest."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Signing up for a new email address and the username not already being taken. Glorious times."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "All links were underlined."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Playing pool in yahoo chat rooms."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Counters on webpages."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Having to clean the gunk out of your trackball mouse with your fingernail."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Real Player."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Encarta."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Not being able to play flash games until the flash player had been updated."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Making aol away messages in the funky fonts and colors. And those midi sound files that played on a loop. And those dress up “dolls.” It would take AGES to download all of those images."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Having to physically carry your computer around to a friend's house if you wanted to play multiplayer."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Actually having to "switch on" the internet. Opening the shortcut, typing password and clicking connect and then waiting for the dubstep music to finish."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Dialing into the bulletin board."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Telnet to production."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Netscape."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "ICQ."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Winamp. It really whips the lamas a**. So much time perfecting skins."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Having to be invited to gmail."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "The creepy dancing baby."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Bored.com"

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Putting a music CD into the computer to check out the "extras" only for it to load way too slow to do anything with."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "Old websites written in a notepad file with basic HTML using tables for spacing/formatting and images that took forever to load. This included lower than lo-fi midi audio files that auto played when the site loaded and "webring" affiliation links at the bottom of the page. People thought making a personal page look professional meant it looked like a newspaper column with a "table of contents" link list on the left side in traditional roman numeral style list."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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    "MUDS.Multi User Domains/Dungeons. They were the text only precursors to games like WOW and Everquest."

    25 Old Internet Things Only the Coolest Of Original Users Remember

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