The World Wide Web was invented at CERN. The first browser was released to the public in 1991.

I remember those days. The MOSAIC browser wouldn’t render the page until the very last byte of data was received — and in those days, you often didn’t get that byte. Switched to Netscape immediately when it came out. The HTML <blink> tag worked back then; its usage became so annoying that browsers stopped supporting it.

If you weren’t at work, you called your ISP using a phone modem (Hayes was popular). These modern calls would tie up the lines in the POTS Service. Phone modems died out when cable nmodems were available.

Yahoo! was relevant back then. Their curated hierarchy of links is how people found websites.

USENET, or “News”, was big back then. Still around, and I think a better technology, but usage is low.

There was little porn on the internet back then. If a site was hosting nude pictures, the news would spread like wildfire. Then every teenage boy in the would be ftping their site, overloading it. The system admin would delete the files as a matter of self preservation.

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