These 18 things from the early days of the internet are a trip down memory lane

A Redditor named u/OlexC12 had mature forum users accessing random memories when they asked this question.

What’s something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?

What followed was a nostalgic feast, with most of these cropping up over and over. Do any of them strike a chord with you?

1.

Waiting for an hour for an image to download, line by line.
rrrrrroadhouse

2.

I remember one of my friends asking me, “Have you heard of YouTube?”

And I said no.
Burrito_Loyalist

3.

Iisham
Via Via

4.

Printing out your Google or Yahoo Maps directions since you couldn’t take the Internet with you.
Prackmatic

5.

DelTarrant

6.

The old internet was powered by a transformer having sex with a rotary phone in a blender, and they made you listen while the service connected.
Faith_In_Chaos

7.

The pop-ups. Oh my god, the pop ups. You’d open a webpage and 20 windows would open.
pinguemcecidero

8.

You rarely saw ‘Username already taken’.
Nanomeister

9.

People thinking you were weird if you told them you were going to meet someone that you only knew online.
SingleGuy79

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