The Internet is apart of our lives like the cell phone, school, or driving your car. We always use it to check email, get on social media, share a story about a missionary in the field, have an online store to sell products, or blog as a hobby. But the Internet was not always around and an entire generation of people do not know what the world was like without the Internet.
Below is an interactive infographic for the geeky people who want to know all of the details about when browsers came into existence, when certain Internet policies or web attributes were created, and even when mobile browsing began to impact the web.
Click the image below for an interactive look at the infographic.
What is your first memory of the Internet?
[via Evolution of the Web]
April says
My first experience with the internet was with Netscape
Eric Dye says
Me, too!
James Cooper says
Same here! and the first site I went to http://raiders.com (that should keep Eric happy!!!!)
Eric Dye says
HA-HA! (Do you play Fantasy Football?)
Adam Shields says
My roomate my junior year in college had a computer with a modem. (I didn’t have my own computer till I started grad school).
I spent a lot of time in 93-94 surfing on gopher message boards. Got to love text only.
Eric Dye says
THAT’S awesome 😀
vietchristian says
Surfing on gopher in 1992.
Eric Dye says
😀
wvpv says
If you don’t count BBS’s and modems in the late 80’s, Prodigy.
Eric Dye says
YES! That’s awesome.
Steven Gliebe says
I have vague memories of Prodigy and CompuServe as a child in the early 90’s but don’t have a whole lot of clarity until the AOL days came around. Remember those AOL keywords? I mean, they were more popular than URLs! Now what’s funny is that even when there were basically just two browsers (didn’t realize Opera went back as far as the chart shows), Internet Explorer was still the worst. Netscape Navigator was king.
I remember making websites with Netscape Composer (free WYSIWYG editor). Anybody remember that? My first website, though, was made with Geocities – straight up HTML types into a textarea back in ’97. The URL was something crazy like geocities.com/New_York/Times_Square/Whatever/Lalala/12345. It was like a massive street address. That didn’t work so well.
Eric Dye says
Netscape Composer? Check.
Geocities site? Check.
Yup. I with you.
Steven Gliebe says
Man, that was 15 years ago now. Big time old school.
Did your Dad have a Commodore 64 too? =P
Eric Dye says
Nope. Timex Sinclair 2000. Yeah-BOI!