That shows a picture of a browser with a million search bars installed. This feels like it was more of a thing between 1998 and 2002. I’d say that wasn’t early Internet, it was when it started to become mainstream.
I started on the internet in 1995 (demon Internet in the UK TAM account using slip) and the Web then was actually a very small part of what I did online. Yep the websites that were around rarely had ads. If they did they were part of a garish geocities page most likely.
But I was more often on usenet (yes kids before it was used for paid piracy we did actually use it for it’s original intent) and IRC (remembering the efnet/ircnet split). The Internet browser was just another app you used online.
Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising
Back then, websites didn’t need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone…
That shows a picture of a browser with a million search bars installed. This feels like it was more of a thing between 1998 and 2002. I’d say that wasn’t early Internet, it was when it started to become mainstream.
There was a time when websites had hours.
I started on the internet in 1995 (demon Internet in the UK TAM account using slip) and the Web then was actually a very small part of what I did online. Yep the websites that were around rarely had ads. If they did they were part of a garish geocities page most likely.
But I was more often on usenet (yes kids before it was used for paid piracy we did actually use it for it’s original intent) and IRC (remembering the efnet/ircnet split). The Internet browser was just another app you used online.