You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
• remember Netscape Navigator
• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower
• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal
• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB
• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster
• used the web before Google existed
• ever used a dialup BBS site
• remember Gopher
• ever downloaded music as .mod files
• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them
• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites
• know IRC commands
• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"
• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make
• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one
You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
@InvaderXan I feel old and called out :) I wrote an article for the youth newspaper segment about Napster (while my hard drive was about half full with my first mp3 collection! *shoutout to Macster! Real ones know!*)
My search engines were Infoseek, Alta Vista, and occasionally Ask Jeeves.
I grew up with Hotline and Limewire (and I'm super glad they both had Mac clients cause I never caught a virus. I occasionally got a badly tagged file.
