Person Asks “What’s So Ancient Only Internet Veterans Can Remember?”, 30 Folks Deliver

Still use it, nothing is better for my MP3 collection. Nothing

That's because it really does whip the llama's donkey!

Me too, until I saw WMP uses about half the resources.

I still use it 🤣

eeeeeee ... oooooooo ... boi boi boi ... scrrrrrrr ... welcome! You've got mail!

I am hearing it right now! !

My husband has that sound as his ringtone. He's a software engineer 😆

That sound is on YouTube, I showed it for my kids the other day

And it was pure happiness when it was finally connected after screaming for minutes

It's my ringtone. Anyone who hears it and responds appropriately may be my friend

Trying to surreptitiously get some internet time at 2:00am without waking up the whole frickin' house. I'd try to use couch pillows to muffle the damn thing.

I HEAR this comment! “Da ding Da ding Da ding SCREEEEEEEE”

Yesss the noise as the dial up connection was made. The modem sounds

Like Venom and airplanes...other high pitch sound

The price you pay for admission

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Or when you'd spend 4 days downloading a movie and it's end up being in another language?

Nah, you could change them to account for unique visitors only.

Or just starting the counter at 300,000 to look more popular than you really were lol

Ha, don't I know it

I was always too worried the count worked read 1 to ever include one on my page

Accurate

I'm so tempted to get some now.

I was like wait. How come this isn't still a thing? Then I remembered that I would always change it right back to the arrow because the others are too cumbersome.

Myspace >FB and you'll never convince me otherwise.

Yassssss! 🙃

It’s my current ringtone :) really makes the other millennials in the office perk up when it goes off. (The MSN messenger noise is my text tone too hehe)

But it was so exciting ! Getting connected yeeaaah

I sometimes listen to it on yt :D

No way at all to slyly get on the internet.

Loved those sounds.

Just play it on a loop with an Amen drum pattern and some 808.

That and if you accidentally call a fax line 😳

Depends on the browser, too: some will try prepending a www if the entered hostname doesn't resolve; some will also try tacking on the legacy TLDs (.com, .net, .org). While this makes for shorter typing, it means you can end up somewhere you don't want to be (see: whitehouse.giv vs whitehouse.com). Many browsers that used to default to this convenience behavior discontinued it because of the security risks to lazy typists.

People rarely ever type urls anymore. It's best to just Google the site. So you don't want to type this in when you do it that way.

true, but google will step in and give you the website as a search result in most of those cases.

YES

Also, not all websites are www