People Are Sharing Memories From The Early Days Of The Internet, And I’m Curious If Gen Z Knows What The Hell They’re Talking About

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Back in our day, we had to hike 10 miles in the snow just to turn on the internet.

"Back in my day, we had one meme, and it was of a man's horribly gaped asshole, and we were grateful to have it!""And when we got the second one, it was of a woman shitting in a tub. And the third one was NOT about lemons having a party.""Going to 'Amazon.com' to buy books and CDs because that’s all they sold at the time.

""Using a download manager to download a 600MB file but having to do so by starting it right before going to bed and pausing when waking up, so the landline was free for calls during the day. At a rate of 2kb/s on AOL, this took 1-2 weeks to download something that would take just a few seconds today.""Cellphones technically could connect to the internet, but you'd use a tiny LCD screen and keys on your phone to browse. It was usually stupidly expensive, too.

 

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