Nostalgia is a weird feeling.
When you’re young, you don’t really have anything to feel nostalgic about, and hearing your patents feel it so much so as to preach “the good old days” was, at the very least, annoying.
Well, now, 30 to 40 years later, you find yourself understanding the thing your parents felt all this time as you now begin reminiscing about everything that was cool about the early days of the internet (and tech of the time in general), and then you realize you have become your parents as you fight and possibly fail to push away that relentless urge to preach about the good old days.
Speaking of which, Redditors have recently been listing old-timer things from when the internet was young, wild and free. User Marambal17 went to AskReddit with the question “what is so ancient only an internet veteran can remember?”, and got loads of answers from said internet veterans.
Bored Panda gathered them all up oh so nostalgically and created a curated list for you to peruse. And while you’re at it, go vote, go comment, and tell everyone what’s an ancient piece of internet or other technology that you fondly remember from several decades ago!
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#1 Winamp
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#2 The Internet Can't Work If Someone's Using The Landline
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#3 Website Visitor Counters
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#4 Custom Mouse Cursors
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#5 Dial-Up Internet
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#6 Having To Type Out The Beginning Of Each Website
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#7 MapQuest Struggles
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#8 Desktop Themes For Windows
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#9 RealPlayer
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#10 Ask Jeeves
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#11 Cleaning The Gunk Out Of The Mouse
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#12 AOL's Promotional Media
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#13 Under Construction Gifs For Geocities
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#14 Invitations to GMail
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#15 A/S/L, or Age/Sex/Location (primarily used on ICQ)
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#16 Ye Olde ALT+F4 Trick On AOL Chatrooms
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#17 Searching Music CDs For "Extras"
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#18 Oldschool Website Programming
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#19 The Encarta Encyclopedia Mindmaze Game
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#20 "Turning On" The Internet
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#21 Online Bulletin Boards
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#22 Neopets
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#23 Alta Vista Search And Babelfish
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#24 StickDeath, A Stick Figure Flash Animation Website
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#25 Multi User Domains/Dungeons (MUDS)
MUDS. Multi User Domains/Dungeons. They were the text only precursors to games like WOW and Everquest.
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