Having your own webpage that you hosted for free on Geocities or Angelfire or Yahoo homepage or something similar. When I was a kid, everybody had their own "website" which was usually just a landing page with a hit counter, some pictures/photos, an .mp3 of their favorite song and some general musings, maybe an about section or a blog if they were serious about maintaining it. They were always slapped together with the most basic HTML editors with godawful formatting and infested with banner ads and popups. I actually really miss those days, because the modern social media sites are creatively bankrupt and hosting your own website and actually making it good has become a more complex affair than it used to be (it's still around, but lacking the same charm). -u/AntiTheory

The under construction banner and construction worker digging gifs! -u/mystik213

Alta Vista -u/CassandraCubed

Winamp skins -u/tossaway69420lol

Weird little squares with blue and red on them that would sort of take the place of graphics until the graphics would actually load. The text would be visible but the graphics wouldn't be there yet. -u/hellogriff

Webrings. You go to a site, often a geocities site, for something you are interested in and see a little arrow at the bottom of the page; this arrow will take you to another site on the same topic. If you are crazy/diligent enough, you will eventually return to the first site. -u/jrparker42

When a TV show would say to check out their website at "h t t p : / / w w w ." Having to spell it out every time. -u/BigBoyTetranadon

When it was called the 'information superhighway' -u/attictapes

The .com version of a .org/.gov site being an "adult website". -u/VapityFair

AOL sending discs through the mail offering 500 hours of free web access -u/Keithninety

ICQUh oh (in a high pitched tone). -u/DictionaryStomach

FTP, Gopher, Mosaic, running download jobs overnight hoping that the multikilobyte download from overseas running at 100 bytes/seconds didn't crash. -u/magick_68

Making webpages using simple html -u/HeyHx2

Using offline mode of browsers to get back to some webpages while you were disconnected to save money. -u/Dangerous_Biscotti63

Using the internet or the phone, not both -u/Myrko6902

Actually running out of pages on the internet to look at. -u/FighterWoman

Amazon only selling books. -u/Shiaomimi

Mapquest. Now we just have Google navigation and Apple maps

Encarta :D -u/yellowochre25

asl pls? -u/Waaswaa

Internet dial up sound -u/Usernamess

Printing out pages and pages of cheat codes for games. -u/VastNewt

Not HAVING internet and playing Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball instead. -u/morenitababy

Readable Newspaper homepages -u/Karakoima