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.

"When Amazon just sold books."

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

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

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

"All links were underlined."

"Playing pool in yahoo chat rooms."

"Counters on webpages."

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

"Real Player."

"Encarta."

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

"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."

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

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

"Dialing into the bulletin board."

"Telnet to production."

"Netscape."

"ICQ."

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

"Having to be invited to gmail."

"The creepy dancing baby."

"Bored.com"

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

"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."

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