You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
• remember Netscape Navigator
• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower
• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal
• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB
• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster
• used the web before Google existed
• ever used a dialup BBS site
• remember Gopher
• ever downloaded music as .mod files
• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them
• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites
• know IRC commands
• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"
• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make
• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one
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@InvaderXan Great list, yes to many of those. I remember Mosiac, gopher, Usenet, having to download a video before playing it (no streaming), ripping mp3 in realtime as the CD is playing, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Yahoo, walkthroughs of DOOM, AOL as your news source and those trial disks everywhere (save them and reuse them)! ICQ, animated gifs, 256 color images, being the first freshman class the get Ethernet in our dorms.
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@InvaderXan Oh how could I have forgotten as well the MOD, midi, s3m and other audio files?? On a Sound Blaster card! My roommate had a fancy Turtle Beach card.