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- When a 4GB HDD seemed massive?
- When 32MB of RAM was plenty for everything?
- The first time your friend showed you Winamp and MP3s and you refused, point blank, to believe that it was even possible to make CD-quality music at such small file sizes.
- When you actually bothered with the analogue line cable from your CD-ROM drive to your sound card?
- When it was quicker to hunt down MP3s off dodgy websites and FTPs using Altavista than it was to rip the CD yourself?
- When CD Burners needed SCSI cards?
- When people actually paid for Netscape Navigator?
- When people actually USED Netscape Navigator?
- Reinstalling Windows 95 on your Dad's friend's computer because it had destroyed itself after a botched Netscape 4.x install?
- Voodoo2-accelerated Quake 2?
- When Macs also came in ugly grey boxes?
- When you didn't have to prise out the Windows key on your keyboard so you wouldn't accidentally hit it while playing Quake 2 (we didn't know about WASD/mouselook then), because your keyboard didn't have a Windows key?
- Winamp 2.x?
- The internet in 256 colours on your 1MB Trident graphics card?
- When 28.8kbps was fast?
- Downloading images from places like The Ultimate Animanga Archive?
- Suck.com?
- Hotmail before Microsoft bought it?
- Geocities before Yahoo bought it, when you had a simple text field to edit pages with? I made my first ever website in that editor.
- IBM WebExplorer? The first browser I ever used.
- the RGB values for the shade of green on the default Windows 95 desktop?
- Warcraft 2 over IPX networking?
- PCs in 1996?
February 10 2006, 18:28:27 UTC 6 years ago
XD
February 10 2006, 23:03:31 UTC 6 years ago
February 11 2006, 00:08:02 UTC 6 years ago
All but the stuff about really early internets. I only got it in 1998, and I believe we had 56k by then.
... Funny how I'm STILL on 56k 8 years later. ;-;
February 11 2006, 11:45:28 UTC 6 years ago
March 6 2006, 05:04:13 UTC 6 years ago
March 7 2006, 02:08:09 UTC 6 years ago
That's back to the future!
You know there are branching examples even of those.To stop things getting stupid, I will go only a few years prior.
Altavista:
looksmart
MP3s:
-Remember being able to play .mod files? You could actually get "decent" sound without a soundcard, through a mere PC speaker. GASP!
CD-ROM:
-Zip disks
Several web gravesites:
-Dozens of BBSs in the Melbourne region. Some with a GUI!!
-Fidonet
-Gopher
-Telnet (using telnet to access Lynx browsers on locked university/school computers that no installed browser - my first madboards posts were on Lynx)
Hotmail Pre-MS:
-Fido-mail.
1MB graphics cards:
emm386.exe
DOS=HIGH,UMB etc....
Win 95:
Command lines! Only commie Linux types use that stuff anymore.
I'm not trying to out-do you or anything lame like that, but even in poor old '96, we could say proudly, "we've come a long way, baby".