“Under Construction” gif and blinking fucking html.
But really it was “connecting to 087762534 BEEEEEEEEEEE BEEE BEEEE BEEEEEEBEAOOOOOOKSCSHSCSHSVSHSHSVSVSVSHSVSVSVSVSVACHSHHHHSHHHSHSCSCHHHSHSHSHSHSHH…”
Though that was audio.
I can still tell you if the connection is gonna be successful by hearing it.
Easy! It makes for a pretty fun mobile ring signal btw. I get a lot of laughs with that one. :)
The dancing baby
My high school mass media teacher thought it was the greatest thing ever. Looking back, that experience should’ve told me exactly what the internet would become.
I hated it instantly, and I KNEW what Internet would become.
I was not disappointed. I mean, I was, desperately, but you know what I’m sayin.
Dial up modem sound. Followed by the AOL portal site.
I didn’t know what a URL was, so I was stuck with going through the kids section of the site, which I believe was a webcrawler that grabbed sites that had games on them. That was pretty much the internet for me.
What you need my friend, is a web portal!
“Welcome!”
This is about all I can remember for my first online experience. Just remember opening AOL and not exactly knowing what else to do except click around random links, looking at whatever websites I came across, all with that classic 90s basic HTML look.
“You’ve got mail!”
I have a very early memory of being showed a grey web page with just a list of blue hyperlinks, extremely rudimentary. I think it was an early form of Yahoo! search.
The first thing I remember doing on the web unsupervised was looking up cheat codes for N64 games on Ask Jeeves.
When we got internet for the first time when I was a kid, and I immediately went to the cartoonnetwork website because it was shown on TV between cartoons.
I also remember that there was a vote held between a number of cartoons, and the one to receive the most votes would be shown 24h after the vote. I voted for my favorite one (some girl that secretly travels with some aliens on missions after school or something) and I realized that I could just vote again. So I voted like 100 times haha. Don’t know whether it was my doing, but that cartoon was being shown the whole day after the voting ended.
Heh, my first site was also Cartoon Network. And I remember the voting too, we had them in my country too. I can’t recall if I ever voted myself, but I remember some of the 24 hours days. Sometimes I loved it when it was a show I liked and sometimes I would be like “Well what do I watch today now?” if I wasn’t a fan.
Does the screaming and screeching of dial-up modems count?
Some pictures loading pixel by pixel, first in very large pixels, then a bid smaller, in finer resolution, and by the time the smallest pixels start to appear, you are already finished.
Earliest I remember?… searching for “Mario 64 tips & tricks” in the Internet Café on Yahoo and printing a novel length convoluted “cheat” to unlock Luigi
The first Internet thing I remember actually doing is my friend helping me sign up for my first email account, on Hotmail… In high school computer lab, so it must have been 96 or 97.
I do remember reading about the Internet and trying to find a way to connect from home on our Packard Bell… But we were remote… It would have been some extreme long distance bills…
Probably Yahoo. I had dialup in the 90s and Yahoo was the gold standard for search.
I remember trying Ask Jeeves later, but always went back to Yahoo when it inevitably failed to find what I wanted.
I played a ton of Yahoo games and remember getting into their “gambling” games as a kid (mostly blackjack, but also holdem on occasion). I would play at night when my parents were asleep because I want allowed to tie up the phone line during the day unless I headed to for school.
I remember setting up actual black jack games during recess in high school. I would be bank, and the other kids would play. I made decent money before the games got busted by the teachers.
I also brewed hooch in my locker.
Yes, I am very proud of who I was then and now.
We did something similar, but with a game called “13” in high school, but we played in Biology class and during lunch (we didn’t have recess in high school) when we finished early.
My brother also sold candy bars in middle and high school from his locker. He’d go to Costco to stock up, then sell for double, then rinse and repeat. A bit more same than your hooch ;)
Yahooligans was elite.
Rage comics
Actually, it’s probably Yahoo’s search engine
Stick fights and blue waffle/lemon party/hamster dance.
One of these things is not like the other.
Super fly
I don’t know what the very first thing was back when I didn’t yet have internet and could only use it when visiting my uncle who did.
But I remember the first site I visited after I had internet myself. I went on the Cartoon Network site to play some of the games they had.
A list of usenet groups on my dad’s computer around 1989. Porn groups, I think, but that may be mixed up with another later memory.
Ask your dad when you’re old enough.
Lol, he’s dead
Not as dead as his joke.
LOL, sorry for you loss.
