Back In My Day Dad Rants About The Early Internet
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.
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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!