sidcow Posted February 11, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2017 Am I hot or not? Jennicam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 11, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2017 And when every Internet search started at Yahoo and you'd never heard of Google. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I used to spend hours on MSN Messenger every day chatting to people all over the world that I became 'friends' with via message boards and groups. I have said before but the internet seemed friendlier back then. People tended to be a lot more genuine and open with each other. I guess there was no ego boosting or attention whoring sites like Instagram and Snapchat then I met quite a few people off there and the early forums and stayed friends with them for years. As you get older you just lose touch wth more people don't you. Everyone switches to Facebook and suddenly you become just a memory or someone you used to know. I think all the big messengers have shut down now.. the like of AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo. Its all mobile now but chats are never as detailed or wacky as they used to be, such is the nature of mobile devices. Halcyon days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 17 hours ago, sidcow said: Am I hot or not? Jennicam I remember one of the features of Hot or Not was "meet me". You basically got shown photos of other users and had to click yes or no to whether you wanted to meet them. If you both clicked yes then you matched and could chat. Given the value of Tinder, the developer of Hot or Not must want to kill himself!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjmooney Posted May 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 31, 2023 (edited) This resurrected thread is itself already nostalgic. I still find it interesting to think that many (most?) contributors to this thread never knew a world without some form of internet access. Whereas I grew up in an era where it simply didn't exist. No web, no net, no home computers, no mobile phones, no video. Even I find it hard to imagine what that was like, now. But it was completely normal. First internet access was when I was doing my MSc in the early 90s, on a green screen mainframe terminal. We logged on remotely to a University in Australia, and simply saw a list of files. I was utterly amazed. Then, email (and the Villa mailing list!) But the real gee-whizz was irc. Chatting to random people in other countries (mainly the US) - something I now do daily, on FB, VT, etc. And I think the first actual website I saw (apart from our work one) was Christian Jahnsen's Villa page. Edited May 31, 2023 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 As above,but I also remember when I first went on the net I had a dialup connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted May 31, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 31, 2023 Apart from finding good scans of Cindy Crawford, this was the bookmark to have. It's the oldest archive I can find but it was definitely around in 1995 http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/c937079/AVFC/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 9 hours ago, mjmooney said: This resurrected thread is itself already nostalgic. I still find it interesting to think that many (most?) contributors to this thread never knew a world without some form of internet access. Whereas I grew up in an era where it simply didn't exist. No web, no net, no home computers, no mobile phones, no video. Even I find it hard to imagine what that was like, now. But it was completely normal. I was 18 when i first went 'online'. I'm glad I'm never had it as a kid. Saying that, the early days of the internet for me were magical. I think it was the excitement of it all, the ability to chat to people all over the UK, or further afield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 A/S/L ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xela said: I was 18 when i first went 'online'. I'm glad I'm never had it as a kid. Saying that, the early days of the internet for me were magical. I think it was the excitement of it all, the ability to chat to people all over the UK, or further afield. I agree and disagree. I was online when I was about 11, on our dial up mode, playing rudimentary text based games in a web browser , and talking shit on IRC. My parents had no **** clue what an internet was other than checking their Yahoo email, most IRL friends had nothing to do with it. It was the wild west, there were no rules, nobody really knew what this new thing was for other than buying books and stealing music. It was a bloody brilliant few years. It was also the golden age of parents not really realising that games weren't all for kids anymore. Or maybe it was just my mum. These days though, with a day of mainstream internet, Insta, snapchat and it providing a way for kids to bully each other from home? Yeah, my kid will be nowhere near it. Edited May 31, 2023 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 On 11/02/2017 at 10:00, sidcow said: And when every Internet search started at Yahoo and you'd never heard of Google. Ask Jeeves and Lycos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted June 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2023 3 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: Ask Jeeves and Lycos. and Excite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2023 Anyone remember, a year or 2 before Dancing Baby a couple of similar things went round which were similar. One was a goldfish in a bowl you could torture by zapping it, liquidising it ete and a farmer looking for his dog which was being dragged behind his tractor. Again you could hit various buttons to do unpleasant things to host dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted June 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2023 Freeserve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 13 hours ago, sidcow said: Anyone remember, a year or 2 before Dancing Baby a couple of similar things went round which were similar. One was a goldfish in a bowl you could torture by zapping it, liquidising it ete and a farmer looking for his dog which was being dragged behind his tractor. Again you could hit various buttons to do unpleasant things to host dog? Sounds like the ramblings of a madman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 On 31/05/2023 at 20:18, BleedClaretAndBlue said: A/S/L ? F / 18 / Miami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villadevon Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 The excitement of moving from 28 to 56 kps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2023 33 minutes ago, HKP90 said: Freeserve Tiscali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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