When the Internet Was New | DARK SIDE OF THE 90'S 

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Who remembers Aim, MySpace, AOL, SBC Yahoo, Windows 95, Chatrooms I’m from 1992 lol

As a 90's kid, i'm glad to have been part of the beginning of the internet and to see through its development over the years. No doubt the human mind is extraordinary in ways we feel impossible.

I miss the wild wild west days of the internet in the 90s and 00s.

I used to access the public library’s computer to find cheat codes and strategy guides for video games in the 90s. Good times.

I like how this really is edited like a 90s documentary

As a 70s kid and a 90s young adult I remember this all too well

I remember when Windows 95 was one of the coolest things when I was a kid. man the Internet/World Wide Web was becoming better innovated in the 90's lol.

Being a 90's kid, I remember all too well how internet blew my mind.

As a kid growing up in the 90s, I remember being so excited about the internet (and honestly computer tech in general). It really did feel like... well, like the future, like that was it. Nowadays I am much more disillusioned when it comes to the internet. We are more connected than ever, and at the same time somehow disconnected from one another. The feeling is hard to describe...

As an 80s kid and a 90s teen, I was so curious about this new thing called the internet. Didn't get to really start using it till I was 21, but it was well worth the wait.

A much much better time to be online. Before social media ruined everything.

i started the first britney spears website in 1997 because she was the top searched person

I miss the 90s so much. It really was an amazing time to grow up, with all the huge advances in technology and electronics that took place during the decade.

We went to visit my grandparents for the Hollidays a few years ago and my grandpa wanted me to look as his computer. He said it wasn't working. So I went into his office and he had a PC from like the 90's and it had an old version of Netscape Navigator. He was still using a landline for internet but that PC was so old he couldn't get online anymore. We went and got him a new computer and hooked him up modern internet and he was like a kid with a new toy. It was cute.

I remember not having internet or any kind of computer even in the offices at school to every student having access to multiple computers at school. I felt like my graduating class was an experiment.

I was born in the 90’s… the title makes it seems like it was ages ago 😂😂

Now I really understand my Dad's nerdy excitement over computers growing up. My parents immigrated to America in the 90s and I can't even imagine the fascination he must have had buying our first computer. It was a truly simple time such as playing CD ROM games lol

Love how they went straight from Netscape to Google Chrome without even mentioning IE. Between 1997 and whenever Firefox started to become popular, almost everyone was using IE except the few who knew better.

It really is so beautiful. Little did they know, after all those sleepless nights in the office, working hard to craft this idea of a global connection to everyone on earth, that their dreams would become a total reality. The internet is an amazing thing.

Sometimes I wish we could return to a time pre-Internet, even temporarily. The constant stimulus and need to feel connected can be fatiguing.

This video ended really abruptly.

Oh 1996, the days I would surf the web in search for cheat codes for Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Netscape was my default browser at our Public Library in middle school.

I remember times spent on the internet was brief due to dial up connection, because of the importance a phone call had back then. Like an hour to an hour and a half max. Just going through web pages of the things I liked

I was born in 1991 so I have seen the growth of the internet from this … to THIS. It’s incredible.

Life was more relaxing back then. You could start loading a web page, go out and mow the lawn and by the time you were done, the web page had finished downloading.

This plays like a trailer. We need a full length documentary!

I remember those days in the 90's working for an internet company. It was ground breaking. And so so much fun. At times at work we stayed up all night and in between work we played a lot of PS1 games because I always brought into the building a square TV, PS1, & controllers. And when we worked the graveyard shifts, it helped pass the night. Before we knew it it was 6am and time to go home. Sometimes we stayed until 12pm, went to lunch together, and then go home. And do it all over again. You really don't see that anymore and that's just sad. I'm grateful for the 90's & early 2K's.

Before facebook and Instagram ruined internet

That was more futuristic than ChatGPT and Starship combined.

In 1995 my dad bought a Packard Bell with a 486 dx/2 blazing along at 66MHz for around 3 grand CDN. I was an intelligent and curious 10 year old with an excited geek for a dad. We literally watched the birth and growth of the Internet in real time. It was a very, very unique and interesting time to grow up and become of age.

The 90s really was an amazing decade. I was born in 1980 so I spent all my teenage years discovering music like Nirvana, Pearl jam, etc. Tryin to get on the World Wide Web off a free CD-Rom from AOL or whatever other companies. NAPSTER, Mtv, Yahoo Chat Rooms, Super Nintendo, Beavis and Butthead, Arcades and so many more cool things. I miss it :)

They invented the internet, and five minutes later internet porn was invented.

The beginning of the internet was like the fucking Wild Wild West. Glad I grew up right during the beginning of it to see it for what it originally was and what it then turned into.

All 90s teen like me here will say the same thing on how this thing was mind-boggling when it started to get into homes. Speed was 1.8k sec on good days :) I remember chat rooms like mIRC.. had a hard time believing it was real people with nicknames sending all this random garbage chat in public rooms. Now isn't there something as trivial as writing to people with a keyboard lol

i wish i was alive for the times like this that were just unbelievable for the human mind to understand, like seeing space for the first time to. all these things, i hope we’ll still be able to come up with new things and new ideas yk

I rememeber my computer being the size of a microwave back in the mid-2000s.

I remember how expensive internet was back then! Especially if you wanted Cable or a T1 line!

Back in the early 90's I didn't know how to capitalize the letters on the keyboard. The keyboard was so intimidating to me, now I can type like 60 words per minute...

Back when adult friend finder wasn’t a scam

As a teen in the 90's, I didn't get much sleep. School and part time jobs during the day, friends in the evening, and internet all night.

Got my first computer in 1996, an old Macintosh that was thrown out from the elementary school where my dad worked and I attended at the time. Man, things have come such a long way since then!

I was there before the web, in 1987, on Usenet. We were pioneers.

Our first computer ran Netscape Navigator over a 56k dial up connection on Windows 95. To say things have improved would be a big understatement.

What a time to be alive. MIss those days.

I started using computers in mid 90s, introduced in primary school but i only started using the internet around late 90s/early 2000's properly. Yes i had those AOL CD-ROMS and playing DOOM, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Tomb Raider 3 and Age of Exmpires to name a few, simpler times.

The first search I did in the mid 90s at the high-school computer lab was for "lowriders".

'88 baby here with a question I'm tired of asking myself: Can we just go ahead and have some kinds of instant good feelings created instead of pills and medications with side effects? Like "What's wrong with that guy?"...."He's a little sad, give him a dose of the 90's with a little 70's in it" lol

I was on the internet when there was only 4 websites, you could see the entire internet web sites in less than 4 hrs. I told my daughter, she said “dad that never happened” I laughed, I worked at DEC.

Ah the good ole AOL days lol....now I couldn't imagine life without internet again. . . I remember spending hours in the library going through Britannica and encyclopedia for school reports, now everything is done from your finger tips, you actually really don't even have to leave the house anymore lol. Work, shopping, school etc. All from home 👍✨

More of this please!

I was born in 84, middle of America Missouri. When the internet came into homes, it was wild. Loading in the AOL disc for the 60min or whatever time. Being able to chat/talk to people from all over. (A/S/L for the ones who know) It was crazy, coming from a time when you got charged extra for a long distance phone call. It all ended tho, when mom picked up the phone to make a call. Those were the best times and we didn't know it.

I really miss the wild west days of the internet. I am sure some of your remember being told that the internet was a Fad that would never catch on A few of my memories 1. The day i got my first computer. I was overseas for the military and when i came back, i used the overseas money that i saved to buy my first computer, A HP. 2. Napster (every 90s kid here knows..., i will leave it at that) 3. When i got my first broadband connection, i was still in the military at the time, and i was the first person on my block to get broadband. 4. Making my first legit website. 5. Helping my sister pass a test in college on the history of the internet.. In short i did not just use the internet, i studied it, and learned how it worked and its history 6. My first multi display, I was using windows 98 at the time, and i rarely have ever had a system that was not since then... multi display with CRT monitors really fills up a desk 7. My first IT Job 8. My first computer build (since than i have built like 5 or 6. 9. My first round with linux 10. Watching The Screen Savers on TechTV. 11. The military finding out that i was tech savvy, so they got me involved in doing more computer work 12. Talking or messaging out of state friends and family on MSN Live Messenger, AOL Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger without long distance fees 13. AOL Disks EVERYWHERE, if you know you know. 14. THE DIALUP SOUND. (google if you dont know) 15. YOU GOT MAIL (like i missed it so much, that i had a extension on my chrome that plays that when i get a email) 16. Do you guys also remember the horrible screen resolution on some of the first phones with a internet browser and them being painfully slow on both internet and the general speed of the phone. (might add more later) In short, i know there has been many complaints about how connected we are now. but for me, i have got many jobs and made a lot of money in my life because of the internet. So i am really glad that it is there. I am sure there is many more than i do not remember, but tell me, what are your favorite tech, internet or computer memories edit number 2: my very first computer but not internet memory was playing Oregon Trail on some elementary school computer. They only had one or a few computers there. But i did really well in my typewriter class.

That was a very weird ending, you could have at least shown the time magazine cover

Great topic!!

As a web application developer, I can safely say that the world wide web really changed my life.

@ 1:51 lol, i remember that "bum equipment" brand from the 90s 🤣🤣

My favorite part of 90s internet was Newgrounds and learning html.

Damn we thank you for your service Netscape workers

I remember sometime in the 90’s my high school teacher brought us into the school’s computer labs. He tried to explain how we could ask the computer anything. We all sat totally confused. He explained more about how the computer shares information and we should try it out. We sat whispering to each other as though he’d lost his mind. I remember in college an ex boyfriend of mine was studying something to do with computers and we were in different states. He told me if I gave him my password he could create a place where we talked live (instead of emailing). My mind was blown then too. Now just look at us! Wonder what life will be like in another 25 years. (if we haven’t blown us all up by then.)

Anyone that grew up in the 90s! The Internet, yahoo, AIM, AOL! Ahhh. “You got mail!”. 😅

Love this thanks for the content the people need to see more history like this well played

I still remember visiting the "Hacking websites and forums" back when images on webpages weren't even a thing. All text learning amazing stuff like destroying computers by making the fan speed go nuts or things like that xD

The Government(1990): What would be the best and easiest way to keep track of everyone and disguise it as a tool for convenience?

The 90s were fast paced times. Cartoons were about fast images, music was upbeat, advertisements have loud colors and lightning bolts, me as a kid would drink various sugary drinks while skateboarding. This break neck speed of technology and everything else definitely molded the mindset of millennials.

Why did this end so abruptly?

I was 9 years old when we got our first home PC, an IBM Aptiva 95 with Windows 95 and a bundle of programs like games and the Encarta Encyclopedia 96, of course we had Netscape Navigator, that was a life changing experience

I'm Gen X, but I cut my Internet teeth in 1997 when my mother gave me a brand new (to me) floor model all in 1 PC. I nerd out on these nostalgia videos.

I remember when my middle school just got computers…we had those colored Apple computers in the early 2000s

It's important to make the distinction between being online and being on the World Wide Web. I was on AOL and Prodigy. Others used CompuServe and BBSes.

Thank you for the video.I used internet for the first time in Australia in 1997

I remember receiving those A.O.L discs in the mail pretty frequently

I’m definitely a 90s kid and I remember all of this born in 1983. Great times!!!

Great video about this time in the early 90’s and the genius of Mark Andresson

I was introduced to the internet by my step-dad in september of 1993. I had been really big into BBSs for a few years before since 1990 for local chat rooms and stuff, and one day he asked me "Hey, you want to see the biggest chat room in the world?" He then showed me IRC. I can even remember the first thing I said on the internet, which was "Hey, are you guys really from australia?"

I remember when I first logged in to Runescape back in 2004 I was in awe that all the players around me were real people from around the world

I grew up in the 1970s, but got interested in 1983, in computers, then it exploded(my interest) in the 1990s, and is still going strong!

I had my first PC in 2003 and my first home internet a year after. It was super slow, super expensive, and super dangerous. Easy to say my first home internet only lasted one month after my mom saw her phone bill and my PC need to re-boot after it catched viruses. 😂

I am a 90's kid and i can tell you the dark side of the 90's was all the pirated media you could download via p2p websites/p2p software! I had limewire during highschool that p2p software was ruthless!

Sure, thats cool and all but it was us, the YOUTH in the 90s that fucking brought the internet into another stratosphere. You're welcome, kids.

I bet people in the 90s were freaked out by how fast technology were growing. Just like us right now with the AI's.

Awesome ❤

Man as a highschooler what got me was chatting online w people from all over. It was so new and just awesome, I was addicted to it. That and getting a computer at home I was fascinated with just the software, like exploring windows and files and seeing how it all worked. But what really put the internet over the top for me was gaming, when ncaa football 2005 came out and my buddy had internet at his house, and we went over to play one night it was the greatest thing ever. To compete against people from anywhere at any time. Then when RU-vid came about, oh man that was life altering too, still is. Myspace n all that was ok but wasn't really my thing, n I could tell early on that those sorts of things could cause problems so stayed away. Well when I really thought that was when ebola was news, I saw videos of people losing their minds and immediately knew it was because the irrational fear has spread through Facebook. Irrational because there was hardly any cases at all, yet it's all people talked about on fb. Now it's done that times a million with every fear inducing thing you can think of. And even non fear things like ideas and beliefs.

being a 2010s kid i didn't experience this, but pretty cool!

Grew up with the net. Now as a adult. One of the worse things ever we could of gotten.

old enough to have lived thru this, and can name pretty much every computer shown, and every politician and newscaster.

bogles my mind when people say things like "worst thing to even have was the invention of it in 1990... those people are stuck mentally in ancient times

"Anyone can access anything from anywhere" You mean like anyone in the world competing with everyone else in the world for jobs now, or for houses...yeah thanks for that

I was born in the early 80s, glad to see the transition and work with tech till this day! ❤ I also remember buying music and books from Amazon on my phone in the early 2000s.

Loved Netscape Navigator & Communicator. IRC, MUD's, BBS, ICQ, MySpace! The good old days. :D

1998 we had internet, but all that was available was dial up, with average speed of 14.2kbps. later we got DSL, which was better. This spring I got fibre optic, average speed is 100mbps

We were one of the first families on our block to have a computer and internet lol I was so obsessed with AOL

I remember those days while attending the University of Michigan, a very exciting time.

Being a 90's teen and nerd 🙂 I remember everyone suddenly come at me asking what's this internet is all about. So many 5.24" modems I used to screw into tower cases and cut my fingers on the HDD enclosures... Setting jumpers correctly to make the 2nd serial port available on the IO-card while not interfering with the mouse on COM1... And finally code the ATxxx-codes according to the different dial-up service... Great time for nerds to make money. 🙂 Unfortunately also for the only phone company in Germany. They charged by minute while in the US it was flat fee already. Still hate them until today for that!

It's cool that Vice did this story, even though how used we all are to use Internet these days, it's always interesting seeing & listening about how it all began.

I remember once the internet came around, you didn't have to wander through the woods to find pornography anymore.

The web was so nice when it first stated people on the web were so nice in the 90s you can trust random people on there. People use to just send you money in the mail expecting you’ll send back a trading card

It'd be nice to have chatrooms back, then you could actually get news.

I remember the first time I got on the internet. 1995. Monochrome text based screen. It was amazing back then.

Oh man! I was born in 1979, so I literally grew up on the "new" internet. Spent my lunch recess at school in the chat forums.