PALOmino1701
I used to keep a magazine beside the computer so I could read something while waiting for a web page to load.
chevymonza
Just the other day, I ran into a guy who said “I don’t know anybody who’s ever read a magazine.” I had to take a minute to digest this idea.
HiddenCity
“When I was your age, television was called books.” -grampa in the princess bride
“When I was your age, internet was called magazines” -chevymonza
throwawayayaycaramba
I was thinking about it just the other day… it’s crazy how centralized the internet has become, how everything now revolves around a handful of sites. Back in the day going online was basically like going on an adventure, there was no “hub”; how long it’s been since I was recommended a cool website! I remember I had a magazine from like 2000 something, where they had a list of “the 50 best websites on the web”; that whole idea feels so archaic nowadays.
kemushi_warui
That’s why it was called “surfing”. Because you’d go to a site, then catch a link to another, and then to another. It’s like you were riding from one to the next, and could end up at a totally unexpected place.
TheTardisPizza
It was like falling into a Wikipedia hole except it was everything.
Scarbane
StumbleUpon
SnooBananas915
And you had to type the website in exactly to get what you wanted. Which meant having 30 random, crumpled, torn pieces of paper with long URLs on them. In your pockets, your bags, your desk.
slashdave
Yahoo used to have what was intended as a top-down directory of the entire internet, created by hand. It was incredibly useful at the time.