Скачать или смотреть Surfing the web like it's 1999

We're browsing screensavers, browser themes, eBay in the 90s, AIM away messages, 90s tech trends and Y2K prep.

Back in the 90s, surfing the web felt different. Browsing wasn’t influenced by algorithms. We stumbled across websites and topics that wouldn’t have been surfaced to us otherwise. And webpages had fewer ads with more content per square inch. It felt like the entire world was available to us for the first time. I’m taking a look at a few of my favorite websites from 1999. We’ll be using the Wayback Machine to browse the web. The Wayback Machine's archive was much more limited in the '90s than it is today, so some of these webpages were archived in the very early 2000s, but we'll get close enough.

00:00 Intro
00:26 Browsing screensavers for download
02:27 Do I already have MALWARE?!
02:27 Internet Explorer skins
03:38 eBay in 1999 feels the same as today
03:43 eBay laptops
04:01 eBay PDAs
04:48 eBay PC games
05:19 eBay "Internet games"
05:39 eBay Other Hardware was weird
06:19 eBay thoughts
06:30 Boing Boing
07:17 Quick stop at Amazon in 1999
07:35 AIM away messages
08:33 AIM tricks (no ads?)
08:59 AIM profiles were early social media
10:10 90s tech tends and predictions
10:17 Apple ditches the floppy
10:36 USB was still new
10:57 MP3s getting DRM?
11:23 Bands release albums on ZIP DISKS
11:39 Best tech of 1999: Games, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Apps
12:47 Y2K prep
13:43 Wrapping up

#retrocomputing #retrotech #earlyweb #oldweb #90s #internetexplorer #msie