Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 09:21     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.


Nobody was buying stuff off the internet in 1996


I was. Even eBay was around.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 09:19     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.


Nobody was buying stuff off the internet in 1996
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 08:45     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:Downloading one picture is too much for the modem. Everything must be text.

Mosaic would let you turn off image loading. That was quite helpful.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 08:41     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Downloading one picture is too much for the modem. Everything must be text.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 08:38     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Have you guys heard about this new search engine called Altavista?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 08:37     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Why are you all wasting your time on this weird thing called the... uh... internet? That's for the dweebs and dorks in the computer lab in the basement. I mean, computers? Come on. I have a real life to live, thank you.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 01:33     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:Where’d I put the napkin I wrote the Mapquest directions on?

This is how I moved from Chicago to DC. Directions on a napkin.


Could have used a printer, maybe.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 01:08     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
IRC baby!!
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 01:06     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:Who on earth would actually buy things off the internet? I'll never stop going to stores where you can touch and try things on. So weird.


+1

Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 01:06     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:I’m on the DCUM chat room


It wasn’t around yet or was just a neighborhood email newsletter.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 00:51     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
From what I recall of AOL chatrooms in that year.....

If I were a watermelon, would you spit or swallow?

Welcome to the WWW!
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 00:37     Subject: Let's pretend we're 1996.
I'd be a newlywed, starting my first day as a married person!
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 00:19     Subject: Re:Let's pretend we're 1996.
Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t DCUM a listserv? One of my friends who had a baby earlier than the rest of us loved it. I didn’t join until 2004 when we were searching for a nanny.


2002

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/about
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 00:16     Subject: Re:Let's pretend we're 1996.
Wasn’t DCUM a listserv? One of my friends who had a baby earlier than the rest of us loved it. I didn’t join until 2004 when we were searching for a nanny.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2025 00:15     Subject: Re:Let's pretend we're 1996.
World Wide Web alphabetical directory listing.

Pets.com

Dancing Hamsters