The Web sucked in 1996


	The Web sucked in 1996

Djiezes

8-2-2006 1:29 PM

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internet, history, web, www, 1996

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8-2-2006 2:26 PM

bignosemousie

The internet in 1996 looks like it had been created in its entirety by a panel of 13-year-olds with Geocities accounts who had about half an hour to spare each night before bedtime.

LOL.

8-2-2006 7:25 PM

jmackin

Oh but those of us online then were so thrilled all the same..LOL..I remember having my homepage at wired.com ...cutting edge ehh?..I never had a geocities account mind you..But still, it was all so new and so v. cool...hooking up on 28.8 modem..then a 33k...lol...actually..I had a 2400baud before that and hung out on BoardWatch's BBS. LOL..

Thanks for the post.

12-20-2006 5:57 PM

ghiberti

I first used the internet (yahoo) in 1997 for about 10 mins - my first impressions? "what a waste of time" - I'm now a dba/web programmer/graphic designer/systems analyst so just shows how visionary I was.

12-20-2006 7:14 PM

ghiberti

Following a link from this great clip I found this - time has stood still (thankfully) in some parts of the web

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			began archiving the web for a service called the
			<A href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Wayback Machine</A>. 
			They've now archived 55 billion web pages. That's enough web pages 
			that if you were to print them all out using 
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			1996. Although Internet Explorer 3.0 could run Java applets and 
			inline media, Netscape Navigator could not, and in any case nobody 
			felt comfortable doing anything more complicated than making a few 
			animated GIFs. Additionally, very 
			few web designers had even the most rudimentary of aesthetic 
			sensibilities, and nearly half of them were clinically retarded. The 
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