REMEMBER WHEN THE internet first arrived in our lives?
It seemed like it would change everything. In some ways, it did. In other ways, not so much.
Here’s how we saw the internet in the 1990s, based on archival material:
We thought it was a brave new world
That would bring people together. Like the people in this stock image:
We talked about ‘surfing’ it
Totally radical. Check out the guy grabbing mad air on the top right.
But we didn’t really believe CD-Roms would ever be a thing of the past
They held so much information!
We thought everything on the internet would begin with “e-”
We thought this sound would define our lives
YouTube/willterminus
We thought Dancing Baby was incredible
Look, a baby! Dancing!
And we despaired of photos loading line-by-line
We thought AOL would probably rule the world
That is, if it took over Indigo.ie
Either way, the @ symbol would be EVERYWHERE
Another amazing stock image:
We talked about the ‘information superhighway’
And sometimes we needed it explained to us
YouTube/PDCS216
We knew about ‘hackers’
YouTube/Matthew Trinsey
We thought Geocities was the future, and all websites would look like this
oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com
(Ahem. Like this.)
