It has officially been more than twenty years since the internet became mainstream, so now those pioneers who lived through dial-up modems and the AOL disc-aster can talk to the youngsters about the “good old days”.
But heed this illustrated warning from C-SECTION COMICS and keep your ranting under control or you may end up facing assault charges.
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
And while IRC was great fun, and I remember using voice chat over IRC, but it was too nerdy for many people. So instead we used ICQ for messaging/chatting. Or we join internet forums/discussion boards to correct other people who were wrong, of course. And there were also newsgroups and e-groups (before it became yahoogroups).
It is true that many sites were hosted in Geocities, but some are hosted in Tripod or Angelfire. And a good number were hosted in university servers. But yeah, most sites worth going to (anime character shrines, remember those?) were in Geocities.
And I liked the screeching sound of modems negotiating protocols with servers.
Gawd, I've been surfing the information superhighway for 20-odd years! I am old!