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You’ve been on the internet too long when….

Jonathan and I have started to compile a list of ways to know that you’ve been using the internet for waaaaay too long:

1. You remember when Amazon only had books

2. Yahoo was only a search engine

3. Hotmail had a 10MB capacity

4. Chat was only on AOL

5. ICQ Numbers were easy to memorize
5.1 You had an ICQ number

6. You know about the “view without images” option for loading web pages
6.1 …and you used it

7. You had a geocities account and you changed your “city” more than twice

8. MSN Comic chat was hot shit

9. You’d load a webpage then go wash dishes or cook.

10. Your internet connection was also your phone line.
10.1 You used *86 to turn off call waiting so you wouldn’t get kicked off.

Add more in the comments :)

This was written by Holly. Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006, at 3:26 pm. Filed under The Others. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback.

11 Comments

  1. Jonathan wrote:

    You remember when Juno was free.

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:27 pm | Permalink
  2. Jonathan wrote:

    You remember the ICQ “uh oh”.

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:32 pm | Permalink
  3. eartha wrote:

    Well, I have a habit of capturing my user names for new stuff I sign up for. For example, when I got my Gmail account, I signed up all combinations of my name I wanted to use and my website names. I did that for Skype too.

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:37 pm | Permalink
  4. eartha wrote:

    I remember when IE was “THE” browser and testing web sites in Netscape was a pain, lol.

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:39 pm | Permalink
  5. Holly wrote:

    Remember when 800×600 was the largest resolution on your monitor! ROFL!

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:44 pm | Permalink
  6. Jonathan wrote:

    LOL… damn… that is old school. I remember the 10 second “IM send / appear delay”.

    Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
  7. Gabe G wrote:

    i definatly had a juno email adress called gettingcrazywiththecheesewiz.com

    Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9:59 am | Permalink
  8. Justin wrote:

    You remember when AOL finally launched Unlimited Pricing and could be on the internet all day.

    Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 10:15 am | Permalink
  9. Jonathan wrote:

    Oh damn… I got in so much trouble when that came out. Apparently my parents missed all kinds of calls…

    Sunday, January 8, 2006 at 4:27 am | Permalink
  10. Manuel wrote:

    Lesse I have done the following.. You know you have been on the internet too long when:

    Used gopher to do searches for topics (remember Veronica?)

    Had a shell account and was using ‘telnet’ and ‘archie’ in the early ’90s

    Used NCSA Mosaic to get around on the web

    Remember talk on a shell account? Pre-IM

    When an ISDN line was “broadband”

    Anyone still remember the days when domains were free?

    Monday, January 9, 2006 at 1:10 am | Permalink
  11. this.is.damon wrote:

    What do you mean ICQ numbers were easy to remember? 9483933 girl … I still remember mines .. how sad!

    Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 10:18 pm | Permalink