RIP Internet Explorer (1 Viewer)

[Sailorsaint]

Never forget the days

I remember jumping from 14.4 to 33.6, what an upgrade! And that 100 MB hard drive? I would never fill up that monster!

 

[FL_Saint]

Could anything have sounded more ‘broken’ than when that dialup internet was cranking up? And once you were connected you could make a sandwich while waiting for your pages to completely load.

But hey, that’s what we had to deal with for a while.

I try to explain this to my kids, they just cannot grasp the concept. And having an actual email program is foreign as well. We have gigabit and when I think about the speed differences . . .

 

[superchuck500]

I remember jumping from 14.4 to 33.6, what an upgrade! And that 100 MB hard drive? I would never fill up that monster!

I think my first modem (freshman year in college, 91/92) was 14.4 but the university's system couldn't go that high.

 

[Bill]

I try to explain this to my kids, they just cannot grasp the concept. And having an actual email program is foreign as well. We have gigabit and when I think about the speed differences . . .

Or how about when you only had a single phone line and your house phone was effectively shut down while you were online. I felt like a big shot when I got the little box with the ‘incoming call’ light that would let you know when someone was trying to call your phone. But after taking the phone call I still would have to call back into the internet. Fun times.

 

[Paul]

Were some of you fogies also around when storks delivered babies to the house?

 

[FL_Saint]

Were some of you fogies also around when storks delivered babies to the house?

Yes. Please step off the freshly cut grass.

 

[kansast]

Early days of internet…. I remember getting a dedicated ISDN. 112k of always on internet. For a short time that was most excellent

 

[Sun Wukong]

Netscape Navigator or gtfo.

 

[Taurus]

Were some of you fogies also around when storks delivered babies to the house?

Live birth?

I remember when eggs you didn't have to keep wet were the newfangled thing.

 

[ChrisinNOLA]

Netscape Navigator or gtfo.

On my Gateway computer.

 

[fred8615]

Use Opera.

Use Vivaldi. Created by the same guy who started Opera, but didn't like where it was going. Especially after it was bought by the Chinese.