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Sweet-Earth-2909@reddit

I met my husband on Yahoo Personals! And I had several Geocities sites.

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DrawTap88@reddit

The stinky meat project. It was a guy that let some ground beef rot in an area of his back yard that was nearest to some neighbors he didn’t like.

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hacksawomission@reddit

The system... Is down... The system... Is down...

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I was just on vaca in Ireland with my friend and kept screaming “thatched roof cottages!” every time we passed a house with them (which was surprisingly a lot seeing as I’d never seen one ever). 3 days in she asked why I kept yelling that and I think I just stared in disbelief for several minutes. Because… burnanating the countryside. Burninating the peasants.

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often_awkward@reddit

I have this framed in my home office. I'm a nerd and I'm proud of it.

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flambethegreat@reddit

I have this as a tattoo....

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

My friend also had a Trogdor tattoo right above his knee! If I ever got one I’d definitely have Trogdor as a option

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flambethegreat@reddit

Mine's on my right bicep. There's another dragon on my left. :)

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Professional_Wrap_34@reddit

I worked on a research team that launched a satellite in the early 2000s. A sketch of trogdor was added to it. The BURNiNATOR has been to space!

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hacksawomission@reddit

Trogdor was a man! He was a ... Dragon man!

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TamalesForBreakfast6@reddit

The cheat! We got you that light switch so you could turn lights on and off. Not so you could throw light switch raves!

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TheLakeWitch@reddit

The Cheat is grounded

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TheLakeWitch@reddit

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Just_a_guy81@reddit

do.do.do.do.do.do.badda.da.da.do.do.do.do

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no1kn0wsm3@reddit

Homestar Runner

https://homestarrunner.com/

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GargantuanCake@reddit

No loafing.

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

I went to a nerd camp the summer of 2004 and a bunch of us formed a Homestar Runner fan club.

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TheLakeWitch@reddit

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✨TEEN GIRL SQUAADDD!✨

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HereWeFuckingGooo@reddit

To this day whenever I cook Pan-Asian cuisine I say "MSG'D! Ow, my stomach lining!" in my head.

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novisimo@reddit

No idea what this means. Im a xennial and an internet user and I'm lost. Nice!

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HereWeFuckingGooo@reddit

Oh man, you missed out.

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Nephite11@reddit

Homestarrunner dot net. It’s dot com!

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TamalesForBreakfast6@reddit

I used to wait every week for the email so I could joke about it with my friends

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Allahn77@reddit

"The emails, the emails. What? What? The emails."

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paradox183@reddit

To this day I still sing, “Oh girl, I want to email you so niiiiice”.

I also still have my red The Cheat t-shirt.

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The_C0u5@reddit

Ugh my mouth tastes like... email

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

Check your email check it down. Check your email smack it around.

( I say that a lot when checking emails )

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russthammer@reddit

“It’s dot com”

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Dandibear@reddit

Y'all would enjoy r/homestarrunner

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often_awkward@reddit

Also the one I always remember is da Cheat light switch rave party.

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often_awkward@reddit

They still post on YouTube and I still watch it.

Hello fellow birth year cohort member! I hope you don't have to engage in any burnination today.

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Way_2_Go_Donny@reddit

No two people are not on fire.

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beebs44@reddit

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Turbulentshmurbulent@reddit

Migente.com

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nopester24@reddit

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Sdemon235@reddit

This was the first thing that came to my mind too

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nopester24@reddit

the o ly other one that REALLY sticks out were the old Joe Cartoon skits. but I think they were around the same time and the hamster dance was much more popular

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Diablojota@reddit

r/GifsYouCanHear

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aburningcaldera@reddit

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This belongs.

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AdoptedBySmurfs@reddit

I still sing this song. My kids aren’t impressed.

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zzz242zzz@reddit

I still have a magnet of fourth down hamster on my fridge.

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thatSeveryonedraws@reddit

My children have instructions to have a choir sing this at my funeral.

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throatchakra@reddit

Just in case you want to get this stuck in your head hamster dance

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Hmmmm_Interesting@reddit

Beeta-dee dah-dee dah-doe-doe…

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Captain_Roastbeef@reddit

Limewire.

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ooooooootreyngers@reddit

The sound of someone signing on to AOL Instant Messanger. Like a door opening.

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attaboy000@reddit

All your base are belong to us.

Napster

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MetaVulture@reddit

ALL YOUR BASE

BASE

ALL YOUR BASE

ARE BELONG TO US

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_derpology_@reddit

FOR GREAT JUSTICE! LAUNCH EVERY ZIG!

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steamtroll@reddit

FOR GREAT JUSTICE TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG!

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB

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Gravy_Sommelier@reddit

WHAT YOU SAY!?

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butt_honcho@reddit

MAIN SCREEN TURN ON

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Solo4114@reddit

HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN

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5ubatomix@reddit

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

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TheVelcroStrap@reddit

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positivefeelings1234@reddit

Literally showed this video to my kids yesterday. Lol!

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

I'm gonna send it to my 15 year old with no context.

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TheVexingRose@reddit

Playing Nanaca crash and walking away the moment anyone said "You know what I like the most?" in a suggestive tone. Yes I know, please don't say it.

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sgrams04@reddit

AOL chat rooms.

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MexicanVanilla22@reddit

And the sounds. The door creeking open and slamming shut. Welcome. You've got mail. Goodbye.

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LordoftheScheisse@reddit

You used to be able to force sounds to play for the entire chat room: {S DROP

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VaselineHabits@reddit

Really annoying when you were trying to be sneaky when your parents were asleep

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sgrams04@reddit

^YOU’VE ^GOT ^MAIL

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FRESH_TWAAAATS@reddit

needs the pause. “You’ve got.. Mail!”

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

I did MSN chat rooms for awhile but before that it was Microsoft Chat. I spent the most time on Yahoo Chat.

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cmh_ender@reddit

Asl

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remberly@reddit

Oh yes. Met some lovely ladies on there

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masterjaga@reddit

AOL CDs!!!

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bgva@reddit

A/S/L

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aburningcaldera@reddit

18/f/Long Beach

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flittingly1@reddit

Yahoo chatrooms

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goad@reddit

And AOHell.

I don’t even remember exactly what we used it for (likely just low level trolling like creating a fake account to use, or punting annoying users from a chat room, inserting ASCII text, etc.)

But it certainly felt cool to be able to do so at the time.

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garygnu@reddit

CompuServe chat rooms were my first online experience. Chaos and majesty.

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SnowDay415@reddit

List me

Those who know, know

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TAAllDayErrDay@reddit

Yahoo chat rooms for me, but yup. Spent my freshman year of college on the computer lab talkin shit on n00bs.

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Sofagirrl79@reddit

I remember in '98 some guy in the AOL chatrooms said he liked to put chicken tenders up his "wazoo" and the chat room had a good laugh about that

Ahh simple times compared to our current hellscape of hyper materialistic influencers

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rumblepak1@reddit

AOL chat rooms were the best, but the turning point for me was discovering that some of them served up MP3s. This was 1998 and the first time I found out I could download songs and burn them onto CDs. Game changer.

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DelcoTank@reddit

Making webpages on geocities.

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SlobZombie13@reddit

Angelfire

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Tsunamiis@reddit

I often accidentally miss typed that website and had to show my parents why porn was on the computer. Thank god they never found THE FOLDER.

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Aggravating-Alarm-16@reddit

When my parents moved out of the house I grew up in, they found all the 3.5 disks I hid. Granted this was in 2010 but still

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Ltimbo@reddit

Stayed hidden for a long time. Where were they?

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Aggravating-Alarm-16@reddit

Behind the desk drawer

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Ltimbo@reddit

Ahh yes no reason to look there unless you’re removing the drawers to move. Nice hiding spot.

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SlobZombie13@reddit

What was the mistype?

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Tsunamiis@reddit

www.ANGLEfire.com it was an early free only fans site.

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garygnu@reddit

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Solo4114@reddit

Funnily enough, my Geocities website was called Docking Bay 94.

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relikter@reddit

Multiple Angelfire accounts to get extra storage space.

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larryb78@reddit

This is the way

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Evocatorum@reddit

I still have the website I made in 2001.... was fucking awful.

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Potatoe_Potahto@reddit

I'm still not sure what the point of a "web ring" was and now I guess I'm never going to know.

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Sukuyan@reddit

Yes!!! I loved making webpages, and it was so simple that I could make or change them so quickly.

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VVrayth@reddit

https://i.redd.it/2ulc0bq5jh1g1.gif

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tommy0guns@reddit

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aburningcaldera@reddit

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

This is the most based reply.

The most memorable "trend" of the internet from 1991 to 2009 is actually still growing stratospherically. First introduced in '89, but not published until... 1991, the World Wide Web has grown to be the most prominent aspect of the internet. So much so that the majority of respondents didn't even think of it as a 'thing' but instead listed things that were (or are) a part of it. The WWW is so dominant that other internet technologies have either been largely subsumed into it (gopher, usenet), or at least have interfaces to it (email).

And no-one is replying to this post, on this web-site, without using it. Even the app users are replying over http based comms channels.

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Confident-Cellist-25@reddit

The Ally McBeal dancing baby

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Jayne_Purchase@reddit

The Ooga Baby!

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Juls_Santana@reddit

good one!

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TheLakeWitch@reddit

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Ooga chakka ooga ooga ooga chakka

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Glittering-Show-5521@reddit

The numa numa dance.

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Neither-Mycologist77@reddit

I can't believe I had to scroll so far for this.

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Glittering-Show-5521@reddit

Yeah, I had hadn't seen it either, so I had to post it.

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tommy0guns@reddit

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Tacotek@reddit

This dood was my favorite! He still pops into my brain every once in a while.

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UnicornSheets@reddit

“The spoon is too big” and other classics like “my anus is bleeding”

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jsusbidud@reddit

Napster, ICQ, Landos Stinking Hole, Bit Torrent, Dancing Hamster, Dancing baby, AOL Chat, MSN, Hotmail, Friends Reunited. Making your own website. Chat rooms.

Getting TV shows before they came on cable TV (in the UK) blew my mind. DIVX was a big deal back then as it was the video version of MP3, creating 700mb movies.

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greenerbeansheen@reddit

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MediaIndependent5981@reddit

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skoda101@reddit

Badgers badgers badgers

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BasvanS@reddit

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Scrolled way too far to find this

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ksgar77@reddit

Mushroom Mushroom!

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

Snaaake

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Mr_SunnyBones@reddit

Oh! Its a Snake!

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AccountOfMyDarkside@reddit

Hamsterdance.com

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pamakane@reddit

www.artbell.com

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Averyjones2k@reddit

Limewire

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Lovefist1221@reddit

Warez

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zzz242zzz@reddit

Surferz serialz

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

Rotten.com

Limewire

Kazaa

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zzz242zzz@reddit

Hotline/KDX

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FreemanAMG@reddit

Man! I've forgotten about rotten.com! I saw things there that I've never unseen

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First_Bed6735@reddit

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GTQ521@reddit

The sound of the modem. I could tell you if it was a 56k connection based off the modem sounds. Needed that extra boost over a 33.6k connection for gaming.

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BaWeepGranaWeep@reddit

a/s/l

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braxtel@reddit

18/f/cali

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SteveEcks@reddit

The Christian ska chat rooms were my haven as a 15 year old.

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Tsunamiis@reddit

Because that’s where the other horny repressed teens were?

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SteveEcks@reddit

Not that I discovered. From what I remember we just talked about random stuff, going to shows, how life was different in the various places we lived.

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Tsunamiis@reddit

Damn our experiences in the same place varied wildly apparently.

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SteveEcks@reddit

Admittedly, I was extremely innocent until moving out to go to college at 19. I now look back and realize some of the situations I truly did not comprehend... I could've lost my virginity far, far sooner than I did. No regrets, but man there were a few times I think about now and I'm just like, "OOOHHHHHHH"

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astrobuck9@reddit

Wait, was Christian ska an actual scene?

How many bands could there have been?

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SteveEcks@reddit

Five Iron Frenzy

OC Supertones

The Insyderz

The W's (they were more swing)

So 3.

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Both-Tree@reddit

This wins.

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Geechie-Don@reddit

All the racist comments yahoo would allow in the “comments” section of articles; especially if the article was about Black folks. It was disgusting what they allowed people to say.

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willworkforwatches@reddit

FIRE ZE MISSILES

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mwalters8@reddit

But I'm le tired

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butt_honcho@reddit

Then take a nap . . . .

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mwalters8@reddit

and then … FIRE ZE MISSILES

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Canesjags4life@reddit

LMAO I use this almost daily

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SunshinePup@reddit

I use this quote all the time. I'm the only one who gets it 😭

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KCRoyalsFan402@reddit

Wtf mate

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

Me, too! Well, my wife knows it. So there's one person that gets it.

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dramatix01@reddit

I still say this just like that.

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willworkforwatches@reddit

Fucking kangaroos.

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RootDDoot@reddit

EBaums world and Maddox, The Best Page in the Universe

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Darwinbc@reddit

Kids crappy artwork

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hallowbirthweenday@reddit

Ding ding! Here comes the shitmobile!

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Juls_Santana@reddit

Beat me to it by about 5hrs

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vajrasana@reddit

Came here for Maddox, stayed for raising the abortion cutoff to 80 y.o.

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jblak23@reddit

I had to scroll way too far to find ebaums!

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cooconnor@reddit

Spear Toss!

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MartinMerten@reddit

Y2K.

My uncle filled his swimming pool with drinkable water…just in case.

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Rude_Man_Who_Shushes@reddit

Ebaums World

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Temporary-Warning883@reddit

Message boards/forums. Like someone would make a fan site for a band and have a message board with different subtopics and you would create a username and post there. I used to frequent one and met people irl. 2 couples from the community even got married! One was from Canada and one was from Australia. Now it’s just Reddit, maybe Facebook still, where that kind of stuff takes place

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cranberries87@reddit

I legit met people on message boards 25 years ago that I’m still close friends with to this day! There was more trust and openness then. I’d never give my phone number/real identity out on a forum nowadays.

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melvinmel@reddit

Hot or Not People of Walmart

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vegasaquinas@reddit

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cranberries87@reddit

You could spend hours on Ebaums world!

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dontletyourcrownslip@reddit

Those emails you'd send your friends that were a list of 20+ questions you'd answer

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bgva@reddit

My favorite was the one about how Bill Gates would send you a large sum of money for every email you forwarded. My gullible ass sent a couple dozen out thinking I was gonna be set for life!

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cranberries87@reddit

OMG I remember one about a box of clothes arriving from Old Navy!

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

MSN is going to shut down unless you forward this email to 10 other people

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church-basement-lady@reddit

Dance. I’m a kitty cat. And I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.

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butt_honcho@reddit

I say sexeh things to myself when I'm DAAAAANcing (ticka tick tick tick)

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chargoggagog@reddit

How has nobody said Hamster Dance yet?

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butt_honcho@reddit

*Hampster

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irate_alien@reddit

because it's going to trigger flashbacks

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Hmmmm_Interesting@reddit

Beeta-dee dah-dee dah-doe-doe…

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garygnu@reddit

I grew up watching the animated Disney Robin Hood.

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AfternoonNo6827@reddit

Was just about to!

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chainmailler2001@reddit

Chatrooms. Pretty much don't exist anymore.

Don't forget GOPHERS.

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grummanae@reddit

Chatrooms. Pretty much don't exist anymore.

They became a liability.... after too many exposure bits on predatory behavior

Not that it isnt for the better but somewhere society forgot to teach common sense about strangers

closest thing I can find to them recently was a whitehouse live viewing chat on YT .... this is still going but was and still is full of MAGA

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chainmailler2001@reddit

I met my wife in a Yahoo chatroom at a time where online dating was still rare. We also knew people that had flown across the country to meet people they had met online only to end up beaten and robbed. When my wife and I met for the first time, her family nearly had a background check run on me. I had to send a copy of my drivers license and talk to multiple members of her family first. We have been together over 22 years at this point.

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veni_vedi_vinnie@reddit

The jump from dialup to cable modem/ dsl

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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

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MaruSoto@reddit

NEDM

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minneapocalypse@reddit

It still exists. www.ytmnd.com

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Thewrongbakedpotato@reddit

Captain. Jean-Luc Picard. Of the USS. Enterprise.

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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

Kramer breakdown was pretty epic

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minneapocalypse@reddit

🥇YESSSS. That one was always my favorite 😂😂😂

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

Yeah, but not the same.

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SELECTaerial@reddit

StumbleUpon was such an amazing thing for wasting time AND finding new, obscure things

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

Stumble Upon was awesome!

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askthepoolboy@reddit

I truly, deeply miss stumbleupon.

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

This and Fark for me

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SunshinePup@reddit

I miss this so much

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fluffhead77@reddit

Meeeee too

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HarryManbackMessage@reddit

ICQ

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

RIP ICQ, 50467411

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Gondi63@reddit

26954397

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modulus801@reddit

I still have my number memorized.

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Colossus-of-Roads@reddit

55162855 checking in!

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

118250..... I can't remember the rest of mine.

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jikt@reddit

119643481

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Fussy_Part69@reddit

That had a brief stint in my life

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SilikonBurn@reddit

Uh-Oh!

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

You’re the Man Now Dog

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

Message boards. There were message boards for everything. I frequented a forum that was geared toward women and it got invaded by SomwthingAwful.com in 2000.

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jlkb24@reddit

Making ringtones for other users to download from FunForMobile. I would also upload full length unreleased movies to stream, albeit in 4 or 5 parts.

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Comic Chat, Silk Road, the Bitcoin Whitepaper

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A-Supurb-Owl@reddit

Can’t believe no one has cited zombo.com yet! This is Zombo Com, anything can happen…

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Sweenbot@reddit

The unattainable is unknown at zombo com

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justanameanyname@reddit

Libby Hoeller

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THExIMPLIKATION@reddit

mIRC

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DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit

Gonads and Strife

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BijouWilliams@reddit

Wheeeeeeeeee!

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Sodamyte@reddit

"He's come to kill you because you're Jewish Kyle"

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thatguy420417@reddit

All the Ya-ho's

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

AOL, YAHOO!, web van, MySpace, Facebook.

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wanderfae@reddit

Webrings, personal websites, weird corners of the internet. Charlie the Unicorn. It was smaller and stranger.

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Pheeline@reddit

Man, I loved webrings, it was perfect for my late teen/early 20s self making my own website. I remember being so excited to get my own domain name, and pored over a ton of different HTML guides/etc so that I could code it myself. And join various webrings. :) The trends of small sans-serif text in a small block in one section of the page while the rest was some sort of large grunge graphic or black and white retro thing or whatever, that sort of thing.

I honestly miss the days of people having their own personal websites to show off their hobbies/interests/etc instead of it all being social media and subject to the almighty algorithm, and/or pressure to find a way to monetize it all instead of just geeking out, whether that geekery is nerd stuff or makeup or anime or whatever.

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snoopmt1@reddit

Free flash games.

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kyserzose@reddit

Mr. T Ate My Balls RealUltimatePower.net

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arcxjo@reddit

Typing with boxing gloves on your hands.

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Prollyjokin@reddit

Messengers—initially ICQ and eventually AOL and MSN. Until then, without three way calling you could only speak to one friend at a time after school. After school relationships bloomed.

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

Geocities

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jekyl42@reddit

MUDs! That stands for Multi User Dungeon, and they are (sort of) text-based MMOs that were en vogue before GPUs were sophisticated enough to handle that sort of thing. I still play one (Gemstone IV) to this day.

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badfishbeefcake@reddit

Playing with a friend at Ultima Online, and then see a naked characters, and then tell your friend: "Hey, this character is naked, kill him", then your friend attack and then he is mad at you for a couple of days.

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hot_sauce97@reddit

Stumbleupon.com

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ThinkFree@reddit

Anime web shrines

eGroups

Website guestbooks

Weblogs

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SpoolingSpudge@reddit

Badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom...

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Potatoe_Potahto@reddit

There were those couple of years in the 90s when everyone was obsessed with fractals for some reason. If I'm ever reading a scifi novel and there's some reference to fractals shoehorned into the story? I know exactly when it was written.

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bigsphinxofquartz@reddit

At least in the 2000s, the way that there's a mobile app for everything now? There used to be a clever website with a well-designed web app for a lot of that.

Functionally, that meant I was bringing my laptop everywhere, fiending for wi-fi, and living off of giant, curated bookmarks folders, but under those terms, it WAS getting me halfway to the efficiency that we effortlessly live today.

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Colossus-of-Roads@reddit

My first introduction to the internet was Usenet, and I guess the highlight was getting to have actual conversations with (or at least participate in discussion threads with) both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

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zenigmatic@reddit

Woah

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Phoniceau@reddit

Hot or Not

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dallyan@reddit

MSN messenger

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OraznatacTheBrave@reddit

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DreaEC@reddit

Homestead Runner!

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VVrayth@reddit

https://i.redd.it/i157xx8njh1g1.gif

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kcchiefscooper@reddit

Acrophobia, the fear of acronyms

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yourmomsbuttisbest@reddit

Your friend's older brother showing you atrocities like 2girls, 1cup, the jar dude, Mr hands, rotten.com....

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geekdadchris@reddit

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peritonlogon@reddit

Animated gifs were pretty cool in the 90's

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Ontheglass76@reddit

Razorfish, it just seemed like it was everywhere. And timing downloads

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ITSlave4Decades@reddit

Telnet Bulletin Board Systems.

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irish_ayes@reddit

MUDs too, I loved playing those through telnet.

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ITSlave4Decades@reddit

Did that too!

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aburningcaldera@reddit

Slow down there dork. I remember most weren’t tn3270 but some were so you sometimes you needed it.

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ITSlave4Decades@reddit

TN3270? Only if they ran on a mainframe or AS/400 from what I recall. Those that I frequented were all VT52/100/200/ANSI Color compatible.

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aburningcaldera@reddit

Well the place where myself and a small group went wasn’t always well known or supposed to be accessed. This was of course back when wardialing was also a thing.

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drop_carrier@reddit

Bonsai Kitten Zombo.com Homestar Runner

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

All those sparkly gifs and midi songs on handmade fan websites. Such a simpler time.

Those videos with the jump scares at the end. I hated those things.

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pienofilling@reddit

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This sod!

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

Seriously fuck this guy 😂

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Eternally-WIP@reddit

Automatic suspicion 🤨 if a friend tells you to search a pic/clip. Usually a jump scare!

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bassfingerz@reddit

Hamster dance! Ebaums world.

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irrelevant_user_name@reddit

G.I. Joe PSAs

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Tetris_Pete@reddit

Porkchop Sandwiches!

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Collapsonaut@reddit

I'm a computer! Stop all the downloadin'!

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

"MemememememeMememeMememeMe ...I'm just fuckin' witcha, kid."

"Last one there's a penis pump!"

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taskerdobuy@reddit

Other than the dings and whistles of the dial up modem, I have fond memories of BBSs, freenet, usenet, and wasting hours watching some John Wick style stick figure animations (xiaoxiao?) as well as some young ninja (Ninjai) animated webseries.

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NombreCurioso1337@reddit

AIM

Then winamp.

Then YouTube.

All revolutionized the Internet and how we use it.

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askthepoolboy@reddit

Milk visualization or whatever that was you could have on while playing winamp.

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

winamp.

IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMA'S ASS

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AskTheAdmin@reddit

LOLcatz - I can haz cheezeburger?

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Juls_Santana@reddit

- "You've got mail!"

- Quicktime plugins and the emergence of watching trailers online

- MySpace and its copycats

- Napster and Limewire

- NortonAV

- Yahoo

- Maddox and The Best Page in the Universe

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ahawk99@reddit

Plugging your iPod into your computer to update it. I was actually just thinking about this the other day. It seemed like it took forever to update

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2099AD@reddit

The biggest thing I remember is that people would actually MAKE stuff. Homestar Runner. All the flash animations on Ebaum's World and Albino Black Sheep. Heck, even YTMND required some level of creativity. Fan art. Wikis. Learning to code HTML by hand. Things that took time and effort.

Now it's all talking heads either gushing about their favorite thing, or nitpicking little details to convince you that something that's actually really great is "bad." Or, like, TikTok dances. Or people lip-synching to movie quotes. There's not really any ART there, it's just sticking a camera in front of your face and doing some real basic editing.

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Same-Personality7128@reddit

Snood

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lexypher@reddit

SLIP or PPP account? Archie or Veronica search? Usenet: where is 37/52?

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xRVAx@reddit

Your computer locking up because of some weird JavaScript or ActiveX script freezing up your computer.

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jikt@reddit

Java applet

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masturbator6942069@reddit

The “you are an idiot” virus

https://youtu.be/GF5bR6GE2rk?si=DATzJB97Rz_SKjUL

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_plays_in_traffic_@reddit

did everyone here forget LEEROY JENKINS

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yuccu@reddit

Chat rooms were fun

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pienofilling@reddit

gif

Remember this guy?

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jikt@reddit

Someone that I used to know. Gotye.

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_Notebook_@reddit

14 yr old me Waiting 15 minutes for the internet to make a boob appear on my screen. Worth it.

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pienofilling@reddit

Was it in the right colours? My brother got given a floppy disk with a file showing a naked Pamela Anderson from a high school friend; he was very disappointed that she had green nipples!

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chaosmanager@reddit

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned LiveJournal. I don’t use mine anymore, but I get emails on the anniversary of my starting it. Turns out, it’s now old enough to drink and rent a car.

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pienofilling@reddit

Good point! I was late to the party on that one but even I joined around 2006 or 2007!

It was fantastic for fandom until the mid 2010s when it suddenly followed Russian law and the slow slide away turned into a mass exodus.

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dragon2fire@reddit

You just lost the game

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jikt@reddit

FUCK YOU! I LOST THE GAME.

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pienofilling@reddit

Bastard!

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jikt@reddit

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com

But I think it has been taken down now.

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Nwcray@reddit

Whitehouse.com.

It was definitely not a government site about the White House.

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mlm_24@reddit

gif

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pienofilling@reddit

Too recent...just!

That's 2015.

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MikeRoykosGhost@reddit

Mr T. ate my balls

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

Message boards. I loved going to the various message boards, especially on music and TV shows.

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queenquirk@reddit

Hanging out in AOL chat rooms

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stupidblue@reddit

Chocolate Rain

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stupidblue@reddit

Welcome to my web page. I kiss you!

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TheLakeWitch@reddit

gif

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Rob_Marc@reddit

Downloading a topless photo of Jenny McCarthy and watching it come in . . . l-i-n-e . . . b-y . . .a-g-o-n-i-z-i-n-g . . . l-i-n-e.

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jamesmango@reddit

Unforgivable

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AssaultLemming_@reddit

Slapping people with a fish.

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StevieV61080@reddit

Tons have been mentioned already, but I haven't seen WBS.net (Webchat Broadcasting System) mentioned yet. I was on there for years before ICQ, mIRC, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Messenger, and AIM.

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vandal_heart-twitch@reddit

The Sierra ImagiNation network

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TheVelcroStrap@reddit

//roll

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TheVelcroStrap@reddit

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kattrup@reddit

As soon as AOL online happened, my little corner of the world that nobody could ever see became very public.

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TheVelcroStrap@reddit

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TheVelcroStrap@reddit

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JettandTheo@reddit

Really miss the pure conspiracy websites run on an over clocked geocities website that wouldn't fully load because i was on a 28k modem.

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BringBackHUAC@reddit

Bonsai kitty.

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SunshineInDetroit@reddit

Watching a bikini pic load for 30 minutes while a group of horny middle schoolers waited around and half of us were running up and downstairs to get snacks

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Mr. T Ate My Balls

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Gravy_Sommelier@reddit

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

FUUUUUCK, I forgot ALL about that one, lol. Good times!

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

Ric Flair ate my balls was another

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Even Hulk Hogan and Chip & Dale!

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krissym99@reddit

Periodically the "ate my balls" memes just pop into my head.

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207Menace@reddit

MUDs

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

I sank so many hours of my teenage years into Majormud and TLORD

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207Menace@reddit

TLORD was the shiz.

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

I loved this game but was a sheltered nerdy girl. I remember a verrrry awkward talk with my mom about the sex in that game.

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

I remember constantly flirting with the barmaid.

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207Menace@reddit

Yeah, the bard called me a "Harlot". 🤣

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

I think her name was violet?

I also remember a skill you could learn called "pinch real hard."

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Mr_SunnyBones@reddit

I spent too much time on JediMUD

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PapaDuckD@reddit

And their more programmatic-friendly cousins, MOOs. (MUD, Object Oriented).

I directly credit RiverMOO for my interest in computer coding which is what I took my degree in (comp sci) and has controlled the direction of my life.

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FiddlingFarter@reddit

My spoon is too big. My spoon is too big. I am a banana!

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

How common viruses and malware were. I was the go-to malware remover for my friends and family.

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amertune@reddit

ytmnd

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

In 1995, one of my husband's friends actually had a phone book of websites. Like an actual published yellow pages of the Internet.

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

I used to go to pc stores and get BBS magazines so I could play Legend of the Red Dragon

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Glittering-Show-5521@reddit

I had that too!

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abbydabbydo@reddit

Us too!

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291000610478021@reddit

AOL and Yahoo Chat rooms.

16/f/Cali when I was 10yrs old from Canada

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MartyMcFlysBrother@reddit

Geez. You were one of the first girls to enable online predators.

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291000610478021@reddit

Yup. It's wild to think about as an older lady with young kids

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

Damn this was a walk down memory lane, and now I have to think of something I haven’t seen posted yet…

Anyone remember “Mullets Galore”?

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sounds_like_kong@reddit

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Opie045@reddit

IM bombing people on AOL

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Imaginary_Quail_5544@reddit

Dancing baby

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condensed-ilk@reddit

I remember all of it being so liberalizing. The random websites you could find and online communication being so cool. It was all the same slop trash that we have today but you only participated in the slop that you wanted to, most of us knew to "not believe everything on the internet", and there was so much opportunity within that Wild West. Today's modern platforms and recommendation algorithms keep us all addicted to the few apps that amplify the most extreme of that slop that has far-reaching and dangerous influences that people will believe outright. I remember talking to a weirdo recently who was believing any random website's claims so I created a webpage spouting all kinds of silly bullshit that should be believed and sent it to him. He didn't get it.

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Thewrongbakedpotato@reddit

Getting unsolicited CD-ROMs from AOL in the nail that offered something like 70 free hours of dial-up.

Reading all the bizarre rumors of how to find Luigi or how to get the Triforce on N64 forums.

Thinking Bitcoin was going to be a fad and making fun of people who invested early.

Never being sure if that file was legit on peer-to-peer networks.

The Internet going out and playing solitaire or pinball.

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chadwickipedia@reddit

CollegeHumor.com

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KoRaZee@reddit

AIM

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chadwickipedia@reddit

Playing .wav files in AOL chatrooms in the mid 90s. I thought that was the coolest thing lol

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

I spent a lot of time on message boards in the early 2000's. I was a Final Fantasy fan, so there were a lot of fan sites with message boards where I could connect to other fans. FFShrine, FFAlpha, And the one I spent most time on, FFExtreme, where I met my ( now ex ) fiance

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FollowingNo4648@reddit

I miss message board communities that were small and localized. I made so many friends back in the day this way to go to shows with.

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TamalesForBreakfast6@reddit

gif

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firehawk2324@reddit

Badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom snAaAaAke

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Both-Tree@reddit

Yahoo chat rooms

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y2k2009@reddit

All the Zero Cool's and Crash Override's there were online after the movie "Hackers" was released.

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astrobuck9@reddit

Something Awful Dot Com

Before everyone found out how fucked up Lowtax was SA was the absolute best way to spend downtime at work.

Forum drama, FYAD, the Photoshop contests, people not karma farming, and watching people absolutely flame out and get permabanned made 8 hours just fly by.

There are Reddit posts that are occasionally funny, but SA was consistently just a good time.

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Rowsdower123@reddit

RealUltimatePower.net

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sgrams04@reddit

hotornot.com

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otiliorules@reddit

The “ate my balls” webring.

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CommaGuy@reddit

I loved Yahoo Games and Yahoo Chat rooms. I spent so much time in my college computer lab playing canasta, spades and other card games with random strangers. They ranked your play, so it was very competitive.

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JeerzQD@reddit

A/S/L

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

Goatse.cx

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REPEguru@reddit

Tub girl

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masturbator6942069@reddit

And lemon party, and tubgirl

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sattyspritz@reddit

Sending this to unsuspecting friends via AIM.

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thetrappster@reddit

Meatspin

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Backbreathboy@reddit

As a Dutch xennial, Hyves. Just simple socialisten with your own page. Innocent and fun and... A racing Banana!

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SinnU2s@reddit

That beached whale they tried to remove with dynamite.

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SmokinSweety@reddit

Faces of Death

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Hannu_Chan@reddit

gif

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BKindigochild@reddit

mIRC. Requesting downloads by chat commands.

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RealCauliflower773@reddit

Monorail cat. Icanhazcheeseburger

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pee_shudder@reddit

IRC

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Phoenix73182@reddit

YTMND

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HibiscusPoeppigii@reddit

Once upon a time, when you were on a band fan forum, the forum was literally just a giant email chain with everyone excitedly emailing each other all the time.

Poe's Angry Psychos, hello hello hello. Are you out there?

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throwsplasticattrees@reddit

Hampster Dance

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bgva@reddit

Still waiting on that Nigerian prince to send me the $10 million I was promised back in 2008.

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Dry_Inspection_4583@reddit

Oh the memories....

Rotten was a pretty big deal

Faces of death garnered some interest, but that was old on betamax

Napster was kinda neato

Goatse

Ninjai was an amazing cartoon from that timeline I think

Joe Cartoon ( frog in a blender)

Salad Fingers... Maybe later than that but still worth a mention

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thinly_sliced_lemon@reddit

AOL chat rooms

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masturbator6942069@reddit

Pranking people on vbulletin message boards with goatse, lemonparty, and tubgirl

Rant sites like Maddox were funny for a little bit

Actual anonymity

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RevolutionaryBake362@reddit

ICQ

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killervirgo@reddit

People 24/7 live streaming their lives. Justin tv most notably, as this eventually became Twitch.

Honorable mention: CU-SeeMe, ICUII

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Financial-Yak-4172@reddit

I miss bowling with elves and microwaving a hamster.

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cjwi@reddit

Blendering a frog was pretty fun

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Financial-Yak-4172@reddit

I knew there was another one. Thank you

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DMNSKN@reddit

gif

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jdsmith575@reddit

I still do that dance when my kids ask for PB&J.

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ineedstheanime@reddit

Where he at

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DMNSKN@reddit

Der he go

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blogsymcblogsalot@reddit

Peanut butter jellay

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DMNSKN@reddit

w/ a ⚾️🦇

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Tsunamiis@reddit

The robot sex required to access it.

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DontBuyAHorse@reddit

I miss BBSs and the hacker social scene of the 90s.

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DarthMech@reddit

Downloading from Newsgroups was an event.

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DarthMech@reddit

….2 hours later

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soundfeel@reddit

Easy. IRC.

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InSonicBloom@reddit

the most memorable thing about it was that it hadn't been taken over by corporations and governmental HR departments yet so it was fun.

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LonelyAsLostKeys@reddit

Once I got off AOL in 1997, my online time for the next 10-15 years was spent almost exclusively on message boards.

So I guess that.

The stupid LOLcat memes were really big when I was in college and is the first time I can remember friends in real life collectively talking about an internet thing that had seen in disparate places.

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secderpsi@reddit

Badger badger badger

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yaykat@reddit

Hampster Dance was the first viral (look at this!) thing I remember.

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SassySweetSorceress@reddit

AOL chat rooms. Online Zines (through AOL) & RTA (reply to alls) chats. Those doll makers (website). Making your own website. MySpace - when you could design it & add music. Limewire/Napster & making your own cds. I really did grow up on the internet/computer (we didn’t have cable tv for a while)

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snwbrdj@reddit

Rotten.com

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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

StileProject

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

remember the pro-ana skyblogs ?

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Eternally-WIP@reddit

When eBay first started and really took off. I still think about that commercial with that dad manager type singing about shopping the world while sitting

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S_A_R_K@reddit

Not a trend but I enjoyed fuckedcompany.com

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this_knee@reddit

this back street boys spoof that was done completely in Adobe Flash and Adobe Shockwave animation back in 1998.

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Torchness9@reddit

Away messages. I’d make mine to match my mood or “say something” to my friends or the guy I liked

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Eternally-WIP@reddit

Song lyrics are always classic

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Vegetable_Burrito@reddit

The video of the whale exploding that took my dad days to download lmao

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nochickflickmoments@reddit

gif

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HowOtterlyTerrible@reddit

Ascii art. So much Ascii art.

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brandieisdandie@reddit

Badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers...

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digitang@reddit

Myspace and top friends. I remember all the real life drama between people, and who they chose to include. Seems like we should’ve seen this whole “social media is brain rot” thing coming…

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

Fat Chicks in Party Hats.

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PokerbushPA@reddit

A/s/l?

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starshade16@reddit

Sign my guestbook, bro.

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therobotscott@reddit

I remember that stupid dancing baby was popular enough to make it into Ally McBeal, which I never watched. It seemed to appeal to older people enough to make it mainstream for a bit.

Also, was Slingo a phenomenon?

Oh, and hampsterdance.com

And Napster, Limewire, and Kazaa. Don't know if you can include Winamp as "online".

Don't forget chain letters.

Homestar Runner was actually great!

I never played Elf Bowling.

Not sure how popular ebaumsworld was.

All you base are belong to us.

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LuisMataPop@reddit

mIRC, Dalnet, Undernet, ICQ. Never ever say expose your real identity.

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a-ha_partridge@reddit

There were a few magical years in there with AOL/AIM where you were just supposed to talk directly to people and everyone did.

So much more fulfilling than modern social media where we’re pushing content out into the void and nursing parasocial relationships with likes.

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derpjutsu@reddit

Flash based things ruled. Games, animations, whatever.

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Whatisgoingonnowyo@reddit

Zombocom

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No_Cicada_7003@reddit

A/S/L?

First question I ever asked my now wife in a Yahoo chat room 22 years ago.

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DnDAnalysis@reddit

Sublime directory dot com.

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portrait_black@reddit

AOL chat rooms

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singleguy79@reddit

I mean who can forget...as much as we try...2 girls 1 cup?

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CouldHaveBeenAPun@reddit

Weebl Stuff was amazing!

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BrassHockey@reddit

I've seen things! I've seen them with my eyes.

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CouldHaveBeenAPun@reddit

🥕 👜 🧀

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jarosity@reddit

Cheese ruins lives!

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thetrappster@reddit

"You've got mail!"

Commercials mentioning "AOL Keyword"

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rinky79@reddit

The hamster dance

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larryb78@reddit

So many cd’s in the mail

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really_robot@reddit

MSN names with a shit load of emoticons and emo song lyrics.

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St_ofQualityFootwear@reddit

Holy hell... dial up going from 300 bauds per sec, then one day it was 14.4, then 28.8, then 56k... Angelfire sites, Excite email addresses, Ask (Jeeves), the entire early BBS (bulletin boards), AOL start up disks in the mail every g-damn month (we used to make sculptures with those bad boys). Lots more but who can recall all the misc. giblets of that long, long ago.

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urbanlife78@reddit

My dad yelling "get off the damn internet, I need to use the phone!"

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2cstars@reddit

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90s-modem-noise@reddit

Hearing the “door opening” and “door closing” sound whenever someone would log on or log off of AIM

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guyako@reddit

Anybody else remember Bushdance.com? It was like Hamsterdance, except it was all gifs of George W. Bush dancing to Eric Clapton’s Cocaine.

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Canesjags4life@reddit

Learning HTML through Myspace

A/S/L?

Mytunes

Trying to find a replay of the Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction before YouTube existed

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rguzman2003@reddit

Did anybody else prank call using sound boards?

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stanjones6969@reddit

And now I put on my wizards hat.

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dominator5k@reddit

Bulletin boards

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FnordRanger_5@reddit

TIME CUBE

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

Zthing.com had britony spears parody vid of oops i did it again

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BrassHockey@reddit

Being able to find an active forum dedicated to troubleshooting and repairing the car you own. Didn't much matter which make or model. There was a community of support that was easy to navigate and helpful, so long as you made sure to use the search function before asking your question.

Now I think they're all mostly inactive if they're up at all, with most of the discussion being strip mined for ad content.

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Glittering-Show-5521@reddit

That and forumites of those days actually knew cars, diagnostics, etc. instead of just engaging in groupthink and being an echo chamber for people's collective stupidity.

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literanch@reddit

AOL progs

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Such_Victory4589@reddit

badgerbadgerbadger.com or the parent weebl and bob

early internet days were wild...

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AutoVonSkidmark@reddit

You use to be able to buy a book, much like the yellow pages in a phone book, that had lists of all the popular Usenet alt. Sites. This was before world wide web came around.

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throatchakra@reddit

That random ridiculous page of hamsters dancing to that silly song that gets stuck in your head for days…

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ezmoney98@reddit

First memory of internet is someone printing out all the moves for Mortal Kombat 2 on the 1 computer in the Library that had it.

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often_awkward@reddit

Charlie found Candy mountain.

Wheelchair Rebecca.

Two gender pronouns and one drinking vessel.

IRC and ICQ

Just randomly going on AOL chat and talking to random people in random places ... A/S/L

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

Elf Bowling

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placidjones@reddit

Leekspin!

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deathmonkey@reddit

Downloading the trailer to The Phantom Menace. I worked in the IT department of my university, and it appeared on every computer we touched, overnight.

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mikemar05@reddit

Not sure if it was a trend but anyone remember the MLM like thing where you installed something to literally have banner ads on your computer and got paid for it. And if you referred someone you got a % No joke that a friend's dad got it very early and made almost 10k a month for about a year. And extra crazy it was always free. No payments to anyone but payouts

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SpareMeTheDetails123@reddit

Burger King’s subservient chicken!

https://youtu.be/K0KjqQZquys

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

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jimmyandrews@reddit

Being able to go to Yahoo to see the newest Internet sites coming online. You could keep up with surfing nearly the entirety of the Internet as long as the site setup robots.txt correctly to find it.

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One-Particular63@reddit

Rotten dot com

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sarahmeover@reddit

Two girls, one cup....

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SlobZombie13@reddit

Stickdeath

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Vivid_Sprinkles_9322@reddit

How annoying getting a phone call was.

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ksgar77@reddit

Badgers Badgers Badgers Singing Horses My Cat Hates You

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Disastrous-Tap-3353@reddit

A/S/L?

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TheBr0fessor@reddit

Duckjob.was

Ugachaka baby

AOL pUNtERz

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EIO_tripletmom@reddit

I don’t remember fads, only what I did. I was not an early adopter, but I was online often by the mid 90s. I discovered message boards to argue about important things like TV shows. Fandom became a mainstream thing. I remember watching a lot of YouTube looking for obscure TV shows from my childhood. I even made some fan vids that were later ruined when copyright started being enforced. I torrented a lot of media. It was rough when initial estimated download time was like 10 years or something, but usually it was finished by the morning.

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fourtytwoistheanswer@reddit

BG.com, funky town is forever burned into my retinas...

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ProbablyAimee@reddit

Hell.com

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MsInput@reddit

Follow the magic path

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   If you don't send this email to 17 people you will die

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

One of the biggest disappointments so far...

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MsInput@reddit

I was gonna make it longer to mimic the true old school vibes but mobile Reddit formatting sucks 😂

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

💯

Reddit [...] sucks

And ftfy 😉

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fakeaccount572@reddit

[H]ardForums and genmay (General Mayhem)

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the_kid1234@reddit

I love that this is like the equivalent of saying “rock music fans from 1955 - 1985, what are some of your memories”.

That’s at least 3 or 4 distinct eras.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Think bigger

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Lower-Tomatillo-9513@reddit

Newgrounds. Newgrounds was fucking awesome

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OkPlantain6773@reddit

Early memes that were all ASCII characters

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al_brownie@reddit

Joe Cartoon (no I did not remember the name of it, I had to look up “frog in blender cartoon” lol)

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JimJohnJimmm@reddit

Emule

Newsgroups

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keep_it_kayfabe@reddit

Line rider and spinner.com

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Fresh-Toilet-Soup@reddit

Everything didn't need a phone number or something to verify you're using your real identity.

The sick site network.

The Internet was more exclusive, too many average people ruined the Internet culture and brought in sanitation and censorship.

The Internet is quickly becoming a mid sized shopping mall, a handful of social networking platforms, and advertising space with ads that literally stalk the user.

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jarosity@reddit

Mahir Cagri’s hacked website

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MightyBigMinus@reddit

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