(16 Feb 2015, 8:30 pm)aureolin wrote Bit of retro Internet tonight. Does anyone remember...

...when we downloaded music like this?


...having to connect like this?


...or having to do this everytime someone wanted to use the phone?


...or when one of the greatest chat protocols, involved this?


...or failing that, you could look here?


...and before Firefox and Chrome, your alternative to IE was this?

Bloody hell yes...

I remember all that, used to get my music from winMX and Napster, and 56k dial-up, when connecting used to make a noise like an old tape deck computer(commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC64)...Also back then, I would set a film away to download and I would be lucky if it took 3 days to get, now I can get them in less than 10 minutes

When it came to Browsers was there 2 versions of Netscape...Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator

My favourite chatroom back then was Amandas Table, mostly populated by people from St Helens and The Wrekin...

MSN Messenger and ICQ was my life back in those days...

Back then I was also heavily involved in Wrestling E-Fed Roleplay sites, some good friendships came out of that period, good people I wish I still talked to today, I used to be part of a group who used the Metro Radio Message Board, we had regular meets at The Pitz 5-A-Side Centre at the Teams to play Metro DJs Team

I miss days like that lol

While on the whole nostalgia thing, anybody who was anybody had a Nokia 3210 or 3310/3330 Mobile, only game you could play was Snake and you there was a ringtone creator on there to create ringtones whose instructions could be found online, though there were only 2 slots free to create a ringtone.

I remember thinking I was the mutts nuts when I got a Nokia 3510, I was the first of my group of friends to have a phone with Polyphonic Ringtones