I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

@johnnyvibrant Yes and the page turned over before you could write the details down and you had to sit through the other 400 pages before that one came back again!

@kibcol1049 I'm so old, I can remember when there was no internet!

The first internet advert was, if I remember correctly, a US lawyers firm. They got serious stick about it. And here we are, running PiHole and uBlock Origin to keep the ads away.

@kibcol1049 @johnnyvibrant
God, yes! It was quicker to go down town and book at a travel agent on the High Street!

@kibcol1049 I can remember that dumb phone was a thing & now even ipon & android is nothing impressive

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I remember when Google came along and made Magellan, LookSmart, AltaVista and Yahoo redundant almost overnight. I used Dogpile to submit the same search string to multiple databases simultaneously, then you could continue with the one that looked most promising.
And Google was just a page with a search box. Nothing else.

@geospacedman @kibcol1049 MP3? Youngin'!

We just had to settle for the MIDI version, none of this waveform stuff.

@johnnyvibrant @kibcol1049 Those were the days!

@GOKUSHRM @kibcol1049 And the smaller the phone, the more impressive it was.

@QuantumAspect @kibcol1049 %True

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 MOD files went hard tho, if you had a tracker to play them.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

*We* had to make do with a live orchestra in the corner of our sitting room.

Tip of the hat (or should I say "Drop of a hat"?) to Flanders and Swann

@TheLancashireman @stuartl @kibcol1049 I should probably credit Hugh from the Armando Iannucci show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ15EdEOncc

@TheLancashireman @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think the live orchestra is rather a significant upgrade in fidelity compared to a MP3.

Not very portable though.

@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049

Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.

@TheLancashireman @stuartl @geospacedman

@kibcol1049 I remember dialup to connect to an ad free internet, worse than that I remember punch cards .

@kibcol1049

I remember when the Web was new. I remember hoping that it wouldn't take off, because I had to pay for dialup by the minute, whereas, before the Web, I could just log in, collect email and news, send my messages and hang up again, all within a minute or so. Much cheaper!

@kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yep for example I used an Archimedes to browse the Internet in the early days and midi files weren't a thing on that platform, but we did have lots of repositories of tracker music.

@stuartl @TheLancashireman @geospacedman @kibcol1049

The chamber orchestra was less intrusive and was so called because you could put it back under the bed when you'd finished with it.

@kibcol1049 I’m so old I remember when they added iframes to HTML. I remember thinking the web was really starting to go downhill. Those were such innocent times.