Yahoo came before most search engines. Then there was lycos and webcrawler and the early search engines that were always overloaded, then came stuff like Google.
Also don’t forget stuff like prodigy and compuserve and bbs’s before the web had much content.
Makes me think back to the days of YTMND, eBaumsworld, & Newgrounds, which would have been the early internet for me. Or the old IRC emulation channel I followed. All my in real life friends were on MSN Messenger, and all my online friends were on IRC
So you have lived two apocalypses? I bet this is a good story for your descendants!
God damn us internet vets have seen the rise and fall of many a digital empire. Refugees moving from 1 shell to the next,
IRC/AIM->Skype/vent/mumble->discord/signal/telegram,
netscape->IE->Firefox/Chrome/Chromium,
message boards/use groups->digg/reddit->Lemmy,
Search engines like ask jeeves->Google/yahoo->google.
Napster->kazaa/limewire->torrents/magnet links->Sonarr/Streaming Sites
I could go on but yeah it was insane.
Yahoo came before most search engines. Then there was lycos and webcrawler and the early search engines that were always overloaded, then came stuff like Google.
Also don’t forget stuff like prodigy and compuserve and bbs’s before the web had much content.
I remember having a list of numbers to multiple BBS services. Fun times. The fediverse reminds me of the old BBS’.
Makes me think back to the days of YTMND, eBaumsworld, & Newgrounds, which would have been the early internet for me. Or the old IRC emulation channel I followed. All my in real life friends were on MSN Messenger, and all my online friends were on IRC
Does anyone remember xFire? It was the first ingame overlay chat program I used. Long before I had a Steam account.
Lol yep, didn’t use it as much as vent but I def remember it and that early 2000s XTREME design.
Don’t forget Myspace. I so miss that, Xanga, and AIM.