The Internet As It Was In 1996 - 90's Websites 

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I remember in the 90's when I made an email account with yahoo and my entire family thought I was a serious computer genius.

I miss the early Internet. While I don't miss Dial-Up, I miss the days when the Internet was this cool thing that very few people used and it didn't dictate our lives. (ie NO Social Media).

I am 41 yrs old, so this brought back sooo many memories! I graduated HS in '96

I was born in 1996. I love seeing what the internet looked like in the 90s. And it's amazyi g how far the internet has come.

Miss the internet from back then. No ads. Every website was unique. Now every website uses the same basic format and is loaded with adds.

I feel lucky I was born in 81. I've got to see first hand how the internet and tech has evolved so rapidly. I remember getting the original NES then going on to things like Dune 2 on PC and windows 95.

I first got on the internet back in 1996 when I was 16 years old at my friend's house. It was a magical time in the old school internet was a magical place

When I was a kid I was so excited about the internet at my Dad's house that I would rent out from the school library a book of interesting urls because I didn't even understand search engines. (In fact I started using the dogpile search engine from that book) It was child safe sites like simulated aquariums, games and webcams of people using office coffee pots. I loved it.

the old youtube was better, the comment with the most up votes always was the first one, and each comment you could actually see the number of down votes as well, there wasnt that much censorship and at the same time people never left too many offensive comments, maybe just truthful or funny comments,

The 90s web was crazy you really had no standard of what made a professional webpage. So you had all these webpages with some of the most creative and chaotic homepages in the world. It’s a real shame we don’t pursue programming as a hobby anymore now that it’s being seen as a necessity.

Oh, the Nintendo website from the 90s.❤️ Playing my Super Nintendo from 1991 to around 1998 was surely part of the best times of my life! Thanks for the video man!

I had internet in 93, I used to send my dad messages to his office 10 miles away. I thought that was awesome..

I was an adolescent in the late 90s/early 2000s. I miss so much of this era. I wish I could go back in time, and relive it.

Getting my old Windows 98 machine online was one Hell of an uphill battle, especially because I had to resort to an old wifi card with drivers from a sketchy place but it was worth it!!! I'm so stoked to see the old internet again the way God intended!!!

Memory and emotion as one. When I hear the dial-up song I am transported in a time where learning was a beautiful and youthful experience. Thank you for the video Dan.

If only it loaded that quick back then! I remember leaving my connection on to download a 4mb MP3 overnight! And hoped it didn’t stop at any point because there wasn’t resume downloads back then!

God, what a throwback. I remember searching for fun midi versions of my favorite songs, searching for assets for Bryce, checking out new screen savers, getting kicked off cause my sister wanted to call her friend Becky, entering chatrooms... those were simpler times.

Seeing that 1996 Nintendo website again is awesome. I remember a random older kid saw me surfing the Nintendo page back during 96/97 at the library and showed me you didn’t have to type before every website. I felt like the librarians had mislead me.

1994 for me. It's sad I knew that was Windows 95 on his PC. My first computer had a 20 Meg hard drive. I told the sales guy I would never need more than 20 Meg.

I remember the internet in the 90s, soothing crackling sound of the modems, connection would break whenever someone would pick up the reciever. Thanks for this stroll down the memory lane.

I never realized how much things changed until now. It was such a gradual change.

I remember when companies started making websites for their brand of food. I was actually eager to go check out a new webpage that my favorite cereal created lmao

Takes me right back! I remember hogging the phone line at home lol! And my dad would go nuts when the bill came in - had to spend ages highlighting my calls so I could pay for what I used. I guess I was quite late to the net - sometime around 1993 or 94 I think.

This Windows GUI is far clearer and easier to see than Windows 10.

I remember back in 1997 when I got my first "modern" computer with Windows 95 on it, and going on AOL (American Online) at the time!! The main "search engines" of the day WAS NOT Google or Yahoo....No, no, it was Excite.com or Alta Vista!! And the best part was NO POP UP ADS!!!! In fact there wasn't a lot of ads for anything really!! Unlike today when watching a RU-vid video and you are slammed with 10 ads in a 5 minute video!! Companies then really didn't understand that the Internet was a marketing tool back then, and thought computers, the world wide web, and the internet, were just a "passing phase" thing or fade!!! Just three years later I was on Road Runner, with a Windows ME, HP computer, that was sporting two hard drives and a DVD burner, I paid around $4000 for at the time, new, and I was writing web pages and chatting on Yahoo Messenger with friends all over the world! And keep in mind this was now 2000, and at the time I could tear down my machines upgrade them to do things most computer users NOW have no concept how to do even the simple tasks, like upgrading memory and so on!! Since those days I have built many of my own computers, and make them do 8 times more than the "normal users" do, and I now sit in a room with 6 computers around em most of the time, still learning skills that even college trained engineers can't wrap their heads around!! And that isn't the "end all" to my tale!! Thanks to the internet and the World Wide Web, I have learned to repair cars I have never had to work on before, do home repairs and wood working and so very much more!! And of course I have learned way more about computers then most people could begin to know!! All because I like to teach myself new things and then try what I learn from the internet in my personal life!!

Fun stuff. I did tech support for a local dial up ISP around 1996\97. 3/4 of my day was walking people through uninstalling and reinstalling the TCP\IP stack on their Windows machine. Especially fun to troubleshoot with people calling in for support on the single line they had to connect at all.

I feel like you need to limit your internet bandwidth to truly experience the nostalgia.. those pages are loading way too fast. 😂

I gotta bookmark this search engine on my Amiga. Who remembers Ask Jeev's? Never used it much but everyone i knew would go crazy over it.

Growing up as a 80s kid with my first Packard bell with win 3.1 then upgraded to win 95 this is fucking amazing and the best thing I have ever seen on RU-vid. Love this absolutely love this

I remember it well. The sites were basic but they weren't covered in annoying ad videos.

Kudos to you sir for this uplifting blip from the past. What I miss most is late night streaming of Art Bell and all his eccentric guests i.e. UFO/Paranormal etc on Real Player behest of a Mac LC550! Those where the days!! Life without smartphones, Ipads was quite ok.....

Netscape navigator with the spinning light house was my first experience of the interweb! Thanks for the video!

I was born in 95. But I wish I could have lived through the 90s as a teenager. The little bit I remember of the 90s were great. I hate social media and always have.

i loved that internet, the clean sites n everything. good ol times

Before we had any internet at my house I can just remember the excitement and anticipation of seeing endless photos of Leonardo Dicaprio slowly loading on a friend's computer when my friends and I were 12/13!!! We were completely oblivious to what the internet would actually become and how much it would change people's lives.

I wonder how many people remember the Mosaic web browser? :-) Back in the mid to late nineties I used to download websites at uni with a program called Teleport Pro, so I could then look at the site offline at home without an internet connection.

Wow thanks for featuring my project! Hope people get some good enjoyment out of it.

I got on the WWW in 1996. My boss thought the internet was something you bought on a CD-ROM. I remember the whole thing being a bit cumbersome to use back then, especially by today's standards. Usage was measured in hours rather than megabytes. Patience was a virtue. You were constantly learning, but that was OK. The people on the other end of the line were learning, too. Boy, how much they've learned since then. And when a mobile phone with a touchscreen arrived, that was a communication revolution, for better *and* for worse.

Wow, talk about a blast from the past! This is freaking awesome man. I enjoyed watching this video and taking a fantastic trip down memory lane seeing my favorite sites back in the glory days of the web using the awesome theoldnet.com site. Thanks :)

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thank you for taking me back, and keep up the incredible work!

Everyone: Ah, remember the good ol' days, when the internet wasn't as invasive as it is today... Me, born 2003: 😢

I remember when I first heard they were going to sell bottled water. I thought that was about the dumbest Idea I ever heard. Guess I was dumb.

This is a lovely find, gonna setup a VM and have some fun with this. Thanks for finding. I don’t know why folks behind the Internet didn’t implement a policy where with every change you make to a site the old version must be meticulously archived.

Thanks for the video of my project, I hope everyone enjoys it.

I was so happy and excited everytime i had the chance to dial up on my modem at home, or somewhere else! This was in the late 90's!

I still connect using dial up, here in 2019.

Anyone remember that part in Friends where Rachel asks Chandler about what's how he's gonna use the laptop and Chandler replies " For DOOOOM"? Soooo 90's

Aaaahhhhh my childhood 🥰🥰🥰 Thanks for this! Gonna use it to show my Gen Z friends what internet was like for me as a kid! 😁

One word, *Geocities*

Ooooh, that rainbow colored text, that screams early internet

And thank wayback machine you have saved me much heartache and heartbreak over the years trying to find stories and things online.

Ha ha. Wonderful exercise, thanks a million. First PC in 1983: IBM PC1, all of 64K on motherboard 😎. Saw this all unfold before my eyes and feel ever so privileged to have been through it all. Just as I was thinking "Please bring up Altavista!"... you did so 👌 Brilliant ride. Thanks again!

hey dan.. i can't remember when my first experience was of being online.. i'm thinking it was around 93ish.. bulletin boards on the amiga, one of my mates had it hooked up to demon . net or something and we'd dial in and the teletext type graphics were rubbish but you felt like you were on the edge of something radical.. then years later my girlfriend's family had the internet, must have been 97ish.. and i remember asking her to look up my favourite band and to print me anything out she could find.. not understanding exactly how much there would be.. she came back with reems of pages! haha.. then there was a spate of internet cafes that charged for 30 mins/an hour.. eventually in 99 i got online with one of the ubiquitous free aol cdroms.... and i remember literally staying up 24 hours just surfing round on different sites.. what's amazing is after 20 years of being online i still find new and exciting pages.. what an incredible gift berners-lee gave to the world..

I remember a pc magazine in 1999 had an article about the first 160gb hard drive. £1500. They reckoned demand would be low, stating that nobody would ever need that much storage! Would love to travel back in time and show them a 256gb micro SD card in a raspberry PI4!

Even though I grew up through the 80s and 90s, I had no patience for using the internet in the 90s and early 2000. I didn't start using it till 2005 and now I cant stop using it. 😊

I miss when getting online was an adventure.

I prefer how pages looked back then. Pages took long and it did not matter because of the thought, "wow these page came all the way from the other side of the world and under the atlantic ocean and to my screen!"

I remember the day when I'm using dial up connection. All I did is download wallpaper lol

Thanks Dan. The best thing about this for me is that it gives a new lease of life to old machines connected to the internet, namely my Amiga 1200. Most sites these days seems to be http*s* which don’t work with outdated AmiSSL (and none of the workarounds mentioned online make any difference for me). But the 90’s web works beautifully on it. Maybe now I can justify the expense of getting the A4000 online too, and so take advantage of the Picasso IV screenmodes on the webpages.

Ah, Altavista! It was the best search engine, and my favorite. That's because it allowed you to use Boolean operators ("AND." "OR," "NOT," plus "NEARBY," which is not Boolean, but locates words that are close together, but not contiguous).

First time I experienced the web was when I started my first job back in 1995 for a large computer company. I used to work shift and late at night we used to have some great 'dukematch' games on Duke Nukem 3D on the company network!

Every website in the 90's was identical. Buttons on the left, plain text on the right in a frame. It pretty much sucked for the most part but did the job. My favourite memories of 90's internet was being able to stream DJ mixes online in real player and yahoo voice chat. I know there's modern equivalents today but back then it was the only place to go so the chat rooms were always packed. I always felt elite when I was able to get into London Global Chat: 1. It's actually amazing to think we were able to do all of that with a 56k connection! I love how the internet has evolved and become mainstream. Mobile apps have definitely changed the world for the better. We did have mobile internet in the 90's but it was terrible.

I wish we could go back to 1996, when people didn't overuse the word 'cringe'.

i really enjoyed how laid-back this video was. your commentary is nice to listen to in the background while i clean. thanks for this, dan, keep it up 🤘

I remember when I upgraded from a 14.4k to 36.6k modem on my Gateway 2000 computer and thought that was amazing! Let's not forget Juno free dial up internet with the ad bar or NetZero dics that came in the mail.

I would definitely say MSN messenger changed the internet forever. Everybody on the internet had it, it was like the What'sApp of the 90's. OK we didn't have phones and had to use a computer, but that was a minor inconvenience for being able to talk to your friends for free. Every computer had MSN messenger so people used to log in at school.

Also it's important to note that somewhere between the 1980s to 1995 was more like my computer calls your computer and they have a talk similar to a fax machine. And then you're in their particular net. Many offices had closed nets.to call you have to call or contact a business you would have to have their computer line and you would have to link up with them to do your banking or your email or whatever before the world wide Web came on. So it was more like a worldwide phone tree for computers you know the business has computerline like today you have to know people's fax machine line.in fact for many years even after the computers were put on the world wide web my computer had its separate line. Because I had dialog for many many years and then something like DSL and then I decided to go with a hotspot (or just use my phone's hotspot which is unlimited)from straight talk.it really depends on what I'm doin if you're just surfing the net watching something on RU-vid or or Netflix it's fine but if you seriously wanted to game then you would ask your local phone provider whatever that might be.before when I did have dial-up I had heart of Tennessee net which actually was founded around the same time that the internet was became a thing. I'm going to say 1995-1996 somewhere in there. And that was the dial-up I had for a very long time I think they charged me something like $14 a month.my local library I believe still uses it cuz it's cheap and reliable I'm fairly sure what they've upgraded from dial up since then though.

...the most nostalgic thing about the internet in the 90s~early 2000s is the sound of the dial-up connection into the internet XD

The internet was better back in the early 00's. People made their own websites with their own info, pics, etc. I remember I had a crush on Emma Bunton when I was 13 and there were a bunch of fan made sites in the Google/Yahoo results. Now I look, its all links to streaming songs, a single official page and the wiki. These days feel so corproate and robotic. Back in the day every website felt personal. Now it seems like most things go back to Wikipedia or RU-vid. Id love to see the internet go back to personal pages, less social media, etc.

Old School Dial Up Internet from 1996

back in those days we used the internet , today the internet uses us . beware !

Teh interwebs! I miss the days of using AOL and going in to chat rooms, but don't miss crappy dial-up modems. Had to have a separate phone line to connect to AOL. That sucked. Looking back at it though, 96 was a swell year on the world wide web for me.

If only I could go back to the AOL and MySpace chat rooms. Man oh man those were fun times

The 90s internet was mostly focused on human interaction and chatrooms. Todays internet is mostly clickbait garbage dump. When it dies i wont be missing it.

Internet was so much better back then. I remember actually building websites and learning how to code my Myspace page layout. The internet today does too much for you, there's no learning involved.

Omg remember chat rooms? Those were the days!!!!

Thanks for this video, that was NOSTALGIC, omg! I remember the old days of simple times, connecting to internet and searching awesome things, not like i do know, only... And the colours, typo, and awesome pictures, not like know, a blank,and white webpages.

I can't believe I found my website from 1996 !! Wow!!

Diablo... that was when I got on the internet, you had to play on battlenet... it was the weirdest thing, realizing that the other player in your game was another... person... it was so weird. Oh, and Geocities...omg...

“Your amiga” - awww, my heart sank a little.

I miss looking at random peoples' home pages, especially the ISP hosted ones. ICQ was great too, met some really interesting people on there. Still hanging around on IRC though :)

The "under construction" sign ! I totally forgot about it ! XD

i remember my childhood i miss my old day

Brings back memories when I was growing up and my school had Win 95 with Netscape.

the author of that book is probabbly kicking himself in the butt for writting it. some of us could see the internet had a future cause it kept getting better and better

I remember back around 1995 my teacher awkwardly asking me if I had been "skating the internet" instead of 'surfing the internet'.

Fun fact: n64.com eventually turned into ign64.com, which started to include different game consoles and entertainment topics under the Imagine Games Network, which would continue to significantly develop and evolve into the ign.com site we know today.

In the 90s, each and every site was its own small world to explore!

The Cuckoo's Egg was probably the only book I read every word of, without skimming. Loved the story, it was great, exciting, very entertaining. My brother and I had a chance to see Clifford Stoll in Coral Gables, Fl. once, in a very intimate setting. I think there were about 15 people there to see him. He talked for about 5 minutes before we realized he was disparaging the newly connected world so we got up and left.

I remember when I got my Amiga 2000 on the internet for the first time.

Very nice! I first got on the web in 1996 during my senior year at high school!

Net Zero! Lasted about one month. Free internet was a pipe dream.

I remember my parents flipping on our telephone bill because of how expensive it was to connect on a dial-up internet 😂😂

I used Kazaa back in like 2001 to download "The Fast & The Furious" on my dial up modem......it took like 10 days. It would take hours to download a song. I remember when a friend of mine got "cable internet" and you could download a song in a few minutes.....it blew us all away. You could listen to a song that you just downloaded, start downloading another one, and it would be ready to play when the first song was finished playing. The internet has changed SO MUCH since back then. I remember having AOL back in the mid to late 90's on a computer that could barely handle it. I would receive instant messages from someone and i would reply....but the reply would take so long that they would give up and disconnect before my message showed up. We didn't have much money and the computer was a hand me down, but my grandparents later bought us a HP that we used for a long time (it probably cost a couple thousand dollars, as most computers did back then). No doubt about it, the internet changes all of our lives.

Wow I was 13 in 1996, very cool thanks for sharing. Brought back a lot of memories, especially the Nintendo site.

I remember my first time seeing "Yahoo" was something called Yahooligans! in 1998. My first time using a computer was 1994, IIRC.

I remember back in the day a buddy of mine would download music from his parents internet(this was a bit later than 96, early 00's I think) and they were very strict about him using the net cause it was so expensive at the time. He found a program online that was for some mobile ringtones, jokes and pixel-art, funny thing about this program is it could connect his modem to the net without a password and it cost about a dollar fifty per minute of use(something he had not realized). When the bill was due it was something like 1500$ lol.

I love how when you clicked on a photo thumbnail it would take 2-3 minutes to fully download.

Is this that Internet thing I've been hearing about? I heard you could write a "paperless letter" with a computer, and send it without a stamp. Crazy times we live in.