Lots of message boards.
Checking email for correspondence with friends.
Going to news sites to get your news.
Sellers on ebay giving revenge bad reviews.
Ordering DVDs/CDs.
Using real media player to listen to music.
Napster.
Hotmail.
Ask Jeeves.
Geo Cities
Warcraft II The Tides of Darkness on Battlenet.
That was the golden age of the Internet. It was still somewhat of a novelty and had not yet become too pervasive.
It was a great innovation but has now reached the point where it is becoming detrimental. Phone zombies stumbling about, online shopping destroying retail, the population becoming more dumbed-down and lazy... all due to too much over-reliance on and addiction to electronic gadgets. It's caused our society to become more polarized now that political groups with like-minded agendas can easily hook up and disseminate their propaganda.
Money has ruined a lot of it. At one time you could watch a video uninterrupted on YouTube. Now there's ads at the beginning and at the end of these videos, with additional ads popping up throughout your viewing. Everybody has to chase that dollar.
There is now too much invasion of privacy. Social media sites are basically data-collection entities which create profiles of users' demographics and interests. This is done so they can bombard their members with specially-tailored pop-up ads and spam e-mails.
It was fun and beneficial in the beginning. The honeymoon seems to have ended sometime around 2010.
You seem to have forgotten pop ups. They drove me crazy until someone invented a browser to block them. And hotmail didn’t have spam detection initially and your inbox got filled, even with porn links.
YouTube has a lot of ads but you can subscribe and not see them.
I agree that online has hurt bricks and mortar businesses. But for some things I buy, it’s great to know what I want and find it cheaper online.
Now that we are in a pandemic, I simply don't know what I would have done without one-line shopping.
So I can't complain about it at the moment, even though I know that small businesses might suffer.
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On “Parks and Recreation” they had a joke where everyone in the town of Pawnee was still using Altavista.
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Yahoo! Chat
Angelfire
Friendpages
Stick Death
Death Clock
usenets groups
gifs
chat rooms
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webtv
tripod
xanga
talkcity.com
netscape
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