photo post from 5 months ago
texelations

I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack

Reblog this if you are an old fogey online

Reblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapper

texelations

Things this starter pack simply does not convey:

  • The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem
  • The computer hanging up on the internet when someone called
  • How damn long everything took to load
  • Having multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browser
  • IRC bots 
  • The frantic search for the midi player when a  webpage started playing music
  • Putting videos on to download overnight
  • jpg compression on photos taken with the webcam
  • This: 
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commodorez

No tabs, taskbar-only web browsing.

We die like Web 1.0 surfers.

indrora

@commodorez I don’t know what rock you hid under but I had FULLY TABBED BROWSING using the power of Netscape Navigator in 1998. My 56k modem had compression enabled and it worked.

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#My library system used a prototype version of Firefox called Phoenix #I wrangled between 80-100 tabs over dialup too
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