“Mem’ries, Like the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories, Of the way we were.” – An Awful Harpy.
10 years ago, I was on a 24K dial-up connection at University which was constantly being interrupted by lovesick housemates. I used something called PINE to read my email, and my address was dpye@uoguelph.ca. I frequented mIRC instead of instant messagers, used Altavista.com as my search engine of choice and would happily wait over 5 minutes for CNN.com to load. And by CNN.com I of course mean Danni’s Hard Drive.
If you’re feeling nostalgic for the early days of the gold rush, have a look at this collection of screenshots to see how some of your favorite sites looked as recently as 5 years ago. It’s hard to believe, and it’s only going to get crazier. By the time I’m forty, I fully expect to be surfing the net on the inside of a pair of sunglasses whilst video IM’ing with people on my wristwatch. As well as hopelessly addicted to Nuke.
Detroit Velvet Smooth from Moncton
That’s pretty cool Dave. Al-Jazeera West hasn’t changed much eh?
jv
love sick eh? remember the boss and carry chamber? the black socks pumps? goin to beat up carry’s ex at squirlies and chickening out? I remember us waiting 30 minutes for that naked pic of alyssa milano to download then another 30 minutes to print it.
Dave Pye
I did far worse than beat up that kid. I made him look like spineless dirt in front of everyone he knew. He never bothered anyone again after that. I know you’d have liked to see me throw him through the front window, but subtlety goes a long way.
Brian Fitzgerald
check out http://www.waybackmachine.org/, you can look up the past versions of tons of sites. They don’t have any records of davepye.com, bullshit.
Doug
You used pine? Nice! I used Elm for 8 years as my mail reader and VI as my text editor in Elm. Nothing beats Pine and Elm, IMO.