If a consumer had his finger on the pulse of it all, he could really take advantage. It seemed less about making money and more about taking a hit in order to grab a foothold.
Even if the amount of virtual stores was nothing compared to today’s glut, the lengths those companies went to for your business was just nuts. I was around to see the great race to make “online shopping” a working thing. It took ten times as long to do anything.)īelow are five things I enjoyed from my earliest days online, in no particular order. Hell, I must’ve been having fun, since I somehow spent more time on the internet back then than I do now. Goddamned RealPlayer.Įverything was plodding and everything was made of glass, but we didn’t take it that way. Thirty programs always running simultaneously. Here’s an actual screenshot of my computer screen from September 16 th, 2000: Actual websites existed, of course, but between the slow speed and my unfamiliarity, I mostly stuck with chat rooms, forging fast friendships with total strangers that were completely forgotten ten minutes later.Įven after just a few years, a lot had changed, but it was still no comparison to what we have today. At the time, my concept of the internet only went as far as what America Online would show me. I first went online in 1995, back when you paid by the hour for an extremely slow connection.
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