Hmmmm..........

Remember Nihil when you first joined how the "Images Server" for Anti Online seemed to be not working like once a week almost?
I do indeed!..................actually I lurked here for almost two years because I only had a 14.4 dial-up .......... I only joined when I got 28.8

If I might continue with my theme.................

6. Dial-up Connections

Back in the day, all we had was dial-up. This was pretty slow, and over here in the UK, it was charged by the minute.

We did not have free local telephony back then, so you ended up paying the ISP and the Telco. Naturally, that reduced your internet usage, and you only went where you really wanted to go.

What I am saying is that the environment tended to concentrate traffic, and people did not "surf" or "browse" as they do these days.

7. Cable, Satellite, & Broadband

This is related to #6, but I am referring to the advent of high speed connections. These allowed and encouraged people to be more adventurous; they no longer remained totally loyal to the limited number of sites that they previously visited.

Unlimited usage billing plans contributed to this effect IMO, particularly over here.

8. Online Gaming

I am glad that subject has already been raised, and I agree that it might make a useful and interesting forum for ourselves. The fact that, despite the rules, real money is often involved certainly invokes a security aspect.

Back in the day, there were precious few gaming sites and communities and if you said "LAN party" people would look at you with glazed eyes as if you had just stepped out of the latest episode of Star Trek

Now gaming is global, and presents an enormous distraction to younger people who might otherwise visit a site such as ours?

Please remember that back then, laptops were hellishly expensive and underpowered.............I just dug out an old one .........Casio? .......486/75Mhz, when my desktop was a PII/333Mhz, with 384Mb of RAM.

Just a few more thoughts to be going on with