30 Internet Veterans Share The Things That No Longer Exist That May Trigger Repressed Memories

Unlike Gen Z kids, we Millennials never had Snapchat, our own smartphones, and 5G. We grew up with chat rooms, one PC per family, and dial-up internet. The early days of the Internet are starting to feel like something ancient, but the World Wide Web actually began in 1989. AOL and IRC were all the rage in the '90s, which makes them more than 30 years old.

The years of the early Internet had a lot of interesting phenomena. That’s why one Redditor decided to ask fellow Internet veterans: “What’s something ancient that only an Internet veteran would remember?” Mine is probably the old-school message boards, specifically the Dragon Ball Z-related ones. If there are any Internet veterans out here, let us know your picks!

Bored Panda reached out to the dean of technology at the triOS College and a self-proclaimed technogeek, Jason Eckert. He was kind enough to tell us more about what the Internet looked like at its inception and whether the concerns we have about it now were similar to the concerns then.