That I was the millionth visitor and I could claim my free iPod.
I remember the “to download this answer this survey and win a free iPad” and being smart enough to know it was a scam but also dumb enough to think it might be real and just enter the info of the vacant house down the road and check it every day to see if it had came
“Under Construction” gif and blinking fucking html.
But really it was “connecting to 087762534 BEEEEEEEEEEE BEEE BEEEE BEEEEEEBEAOOOOOOKSCSHSCSHSVSHSHSVSVSVSHSVSVSVSVSVACHSHHHHSHHHSHSCSCHHHSHSHSHSHSHH…”
Though that was audio.
I can still tell you if the connection is gonna be successful by hearing it.
The dancing baby
My high school mass media teacher thought it was the greatest thing ever. Looking back, that experience should’ve told me exactly what the internet would become.
BBSes. My first modem was for my Commodore 64. All you could connect to were Bulletin Board Services which were simply someone else’s computer that was running software. Usually you would get some sort of menu if options when you connected.
CompuServe came not too long after that probably on an 8088 or 386 PC.
Dial up modem sound. Followed by the AOL portal site.
I didn’t know what a URL was, so I was stuck with going through the kids section of the site, which I believe was a webcrawler that grabbed sites that had games on them. That was pretty much the internet for me.
