The Web in 1994

[rich kolker]

Another thing from back then --

Swapping the latest version of Netscape with friends on a floppy disk. The whole thing fit in 1.44 MB.

 

[Sec31Mike]

I remember the olden days on the net.

Sucky dial up connections that were nowhere near your modem's capability, and trying over and over to get a better data rate.

I was on AOL when they were billing by the hour, some of my monthly bills were close to $400. Those 24 hour straight chat binges were very costly. I even did the whole drive across the country to meet women thing. I look back at that and go - holy fu**, what was I thinking. I once drove 52 hours straight cross country only to roll my car 1/4 mile away from where I was going.

I started buying and selling on eBay back in 1998. First thing I bought on eBay was a box of Christina Aguilera cards (was hoping for an autograph).

I actually remember Yahoo being a portal, not a commercial site.

Sometimes I miss the olden days on the net. You could actuaally find what you were looking for.

 

[Sparky]

First time i used the internet was on my brother's computer back in 1995. Pentium 75mhz with 8 meg of ram and a 512MB hard drive running Windows 3.1

First time i surfed on my own system was on a Sega Dreamcast back in 2000.

 

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TimelessTrek said:
Nowadays, it's ALL FLASH, ALL-CSS (ugghhhh...what a pain!), ALL XML AND DHTML.

I share your opinion about CSS, Flash and DHTML

They've been pushing the Web 2.0 thing for a couple years now and it STILL hasn't caught on...and 2 years is an ETERNITY in the tech world.

AJAX and dynamic content loading were never, ever meant to replace all static pages. Unfortunately, many people do seem to use it for content that doesn't benefit from client-side scripting at all.

 

[TimelessTrek]

Sec31Mike said:
I remember the olden days on the net.

Sucky dial up connections that were nowhere near your modem's capability, and trying over and over to get a better data rate.

I was on AOL when they were billing by the hour, some of my monthly bills were close to $400. Those 24 hour straight chat binges were very costly. I even did the whole drive across the country to meet women thing. I look back at that and go - holy fu**, what was I thinking. I once drove 52 hours straight cross country only to roll my car 1/4 mile away from where I was going.

I started buying and selling on eBay back in 1998. First thing I bought on eBay was a box of Christina Aguilera cards (was hoping for an autograph).

I actually remember Yahoo being a portal, not a commercial site.

Sometimes I miss the olden days on the net. You could actuaally find what you were looking for.

That's a pretty cool story! I'm so sorry you had to use AOL though - in my all years, I've avoided that company (even AIM) like the plague!

 

[TimelessTrek]

Zero Hour said:

TimelessTrek said:
Nowadays, it's ALL FLASH, ALL-CSS (ugghhhh...what a pain!), ALL XML AND DHTML.

I share your opinion about CSS, Flash and DHTML

In my opinion, there is never a reason why a webpage's code (unless it's a FAQ or novel) should be anywhere near 20-50k...but I bet you will have a hard time finding a big name company using anything but all the above mentioned stuff and choking bandwidth.

They've been pushing the Web 2.0 thing for a couple years now and it STILL hasn't caught on...and 2 years is an ETERNITY in the tech world.

AJAX and dynamic content loading were never, ever meant to replace all static pages. Unfortunately, many people do seem to use it for content that doesn't benefit from client-side scripting at all.

Database/programmer types love it - it's justifies their bitchiness and extended work hours and raises project costs for clients




BTW - Do people here remember when you would go to book stores and they actually had Internet "Phone" books? They were like books made specifically for listing cool sites on the web. There might be only a couple hundred sites in any given book but it was cool how before big search engines came around you still had to use paper with pixels to get what you wanted.