The Internet As It Was in 2001 - Old Websites
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
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Let's take a trip back in time 20 years and see how some of our favourite websites looked in 2001, and how to experience it on your vintage PC.
theoldnet.com is a project to take you back to those early days of the WWW. Pulling in results from the Wayback Machine, this new website strips away all of the modern scripting language that archive.org usually insert, meaning you can browse the 90's Internet again on your retro machine!
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▬ Contents of this video ▬
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - World of Tanks Sponsor Message
1:59 - The Old Net and Proxy Setup
6:00 - 2001 Websites 
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I remember back in Oct 2001 my girlfriend saying there’s a website where you can buy anything. I said: ‘Even old Sega consoles?’ She said ‘probably’ and that was how the eBay obsession began.
this is the most 2001 thing i have ever heard
I still hate myself for not buying the video games I wanted back then. Everything retro you couldn’t give away back then. Complete in box super Nintendos we’re like 40 dollars back then. 12 dollars for a gold ocarina of time in box. The only game I remember being super expensive even back then was mega man x3. I paid like 80 dollars for it back in 2003
@@Kevinb1821 Are you kidding me? Nowadays that in box snes is $300
I was born in oct 2001😳
@@u1timatesquid803 I started gaming in 1991
When there was actual creativity in making website's and not oversimplified logos like now.
It was simple time and really good stuff
Yeah, and those full screen page blackout popups didn't exist (whatever that's called).
I'd argue the opposite - pages covered in ads that were often bigger than the page itself causing them to load slowly, only a few websites were very creative back then
It's a matter of taste. Plus Win11 design language is beautiful, everyone should do it like them or follow Google material design
RUclips in about 2009 was amazing
A bit paradoxical saying 'oversimplified like now' and then 'back then was simple time'.
But totally agree apart from that. Webpages in early 2000's were also more compact - and had MUCH less bloat, ads and BS. Meaning you could get an overview and kinda see everything at once. And the retro designs are so beautiful while down-to-earth.
This brings back so many memories. I started browsing the net around 1998/1999 but it wasn’t until 2001 when I seriously started taking notice of how important this whole Internet thingy was going to be, specially after the switch between dial-up to full on broadband
You probably lived your youth in the best time of human history
Yes one cares about Blox Fruits.
I loved how geocities, tripod and myspace (a bit later) enabled average people to have their own very "creative" pages. Facebook turned everything into McDonalds - homogenization. That spark of originality went away and AFAIK no platform is still like this.
I learned a lot from geocities pages actually. I remember siliconvalley/pines and some others taught me how to program in QBASIC.
I remember back when I had a myyearbook as well as a myspace page, and friends showing me how to customize them by copying lines of code and pasting them in a specific spot. I thought that was so cool and revolutionary. it allowed anybody to truly make their page their own. and then facebook took over and everybody's page looked the same. I think that says a lot about the public's willingness to accept mediocrity, seeing how the internet started to become even more mainstream at the same time other media started to become more homogenized.
@@user-ju9vt7qg6f Yes, plebs love mediocrity.
This is when I REALLY got into "surfing" the net!
Yup!
I started using the Internet way back in March 1999. When I started using it at the library.
Yes problem!
I started using internet in 1991 before web browsers even existed.
I really miss that era it was better than the 90s internet but more diverse than the modern internet.
It was the proper Internet evolved.
yes and yes
This is very nostalgic. I miss surfing the web in the 90s. I used to watch flash movies, go on gaming forums, and look up products on their websites. I will never forget the static you hear when connecting to aol and the internet.
AIM/AOL Chats and Forums were EVERYTHING back then. Him showing the PlayStation webpage from back then was so nostalgic, I was a big time PlayStation Forums poster at the time.
even that old website Design makes me nostalgic
The whole Internet was better back then. Fight me.
Before google turned into an advertising company and decided what your website had to look like and decided what "good" content meant.
Well, we could start with RUclips not being around for instance?
I'd say no Facebook was a plus.
The internet today is way better. Don't lie.
@@jaredballoonboy7944 I mean modern internet makes it easier for schools and students to get stuff done, stream ANY TV show, connect with friends and what not. But the fact that it felt less centralized made 2000s internet a little better.
We need to mix 2001 internet with the convenient 2021 internet. It’s not easy but possible.
15:08 Was nice of Steve Jobs to appear on the XP web page
I only turned 22 in August 2001! Gonna have some fun looking back at these retro sites! Happy days!
OK boomer
@@KarlHamilton ok script kiddie
And then I was born a months later
@@etriganthedemon666 i was born 17 years earlier
@@pumpedupbro4200 dang how old r u now?
I had dial up in 2001, AOL and this does bring back memories.
I remember GBA, Xbox and GameCube being released in 2001 along with the hype. I agree it was a fullstack year.
I was in secondary school and remember my sister talking about Windows XP.
Cheers Dan for taking time to do this video, it was a different world both technologically and real life (good & bad).
This is brilliant, and of course, running
it within classic Windows was a stroke of genius!
I’ve done this a couple of times on RISC OS and ReactOS, it’s certainly easy to get caught up in Web 1.0 ;)
I remember being on the Train to London around year 2000 on my Toshiba Libretto mini-laptop (running Win98SE) with a Serial Lead connected to my Motorola Timeport Phone at 9.6 kbps to use it as a Wireless Modem. I was using MSN Chat (remember that?). I casually told someone I was 'on the train' and they responded like 'whoaaa!! how??! , your on MSN??!!' - oh how technology advances!! LOL!!
The ps2 design is timelessly beautiful and the fact that is the original design for the unreleased Atari Falcon Microbox is like the tip of the iceberg in retrocomputing land.
Ahhh back when webpages where form over function and not designed by so called web developers .... i miss good websites.
Same. Those were the good old days
websites are garbage these days.
@@Acolis Websites today are nothing more than pages sticked together with tons of JavaScript patches clogging bandwidth
Nowadays it’s like they stick the pages together with glitter glue
Thanks for doing this follow up video Dan! We're always working on new features, plenty more to come!
You are so eloquently explaining everything! that's awesome
Well, he is British..
The proto-internet in the mid Nineties was interesting, since graphical web browsers were so new.
I'm sorry if you haven't screamed in terror was the shared line house phone rang when you where 14mb into a 50mb download on a 28k modem, you haven't known true horror.
That's your fault for not using a download manager!
Amazing. Good old time with AOL and ICQ chat program, so nice to see Netscape Navigator lighting up the icon. Thanks very much for making this video. Huge Fan. cheers!
Totally spoiling us this week Dan, 2 videos in a week is awesome. Love it 😀😍
Man, thats a throwback
The internet as it was during 9/11
I really like your videos, very informative and you sound like an enthusiastic radio DJ like Dave Pearce who was very passionate. Keep up the amazing work! You really engage your audience :-)
Did anyone else get the chills when reading the "US reacts to heightened terror threat" news article on CNN published on June 22 2001?
I don't get it...? 😅
@@christianbell8347 This was only 2 months before 9/11.
@@johnperivolaris6447 I... still don't get it. Sorry, makes no sense.
Very nostalgic, thanks Dan :)
This has given me a few ideas regarding getting other older devices online, such as PDAs!
Love these kind of videos
im a retro player, i have a lot of retro hardware, and let me tell you guys,
Wme is far more stable then w98se.
even back then my work computer had Wme installed and i had no problems what so ever,
the problem is that a lot of people had really old hardware that were probably on their last legs and also there was a big capacitor problem in the 2000's so there were a lot of bsod's
companies pretty much made Wme a scapegoat.
I am wondering, how can I track down a very old japanese geocities page that I don't have a link to?
My friend said he visited a "ghostpage" of an old webpage on the deepweb in japanese that doesn't exist anymore.
I think he forked and customized the browser but not sure. I am looking for something very specific.
Great video back to the golden days of the Internet and hardware advances
I can totally so relate to just about everything in this video. The early 2000's was really an interesting time back then.
I miss your weekly soulful house shows! On point from start to finish!!! Thank you.
I really miss those animations on the top right corner of the browser when finding the page. It was so cool. Edit: I also miss the look of the web in the early 2000s, when websites had those nicely done graphical layouts. Of course, those wouldn't go nicely on your phone screen. Mobile devices ruined the internet in my opinion.
How did mobile phones ruin the internet?
@@KeepingitReal4 having to design a website that works automatically on a desktop and a mobile web browser removing some of the freedom, probably
@@Phenom0420 nah, you can design websites to have different interfaces regardless if they are desktop or mobile. It's just the concept of web design has become standardized since you're pretty much obligated to have a website if you're a business owner.
Yes at lie!
So cool. Tanx for the video.
There was no rubbish social media platforms back then..life was simple and fun
We cannot go back in time to browse the old website. But it must be lived in the present and in the future.
Damn if only to go back for a day. I was 10 years old and got a platinum gameboy advance and pokemon crystal. Something about seeing these images just squeezes my heart. It's like for just the tiniest fraction of a second you can almost feel IT again. I don't even know what "IT" is really. Just some odd connection to the time.
Nice edit 🎉🎉🎉
I wasn’t around during this time, but this feels so nostalgic.
Go further! I remember using the internet in 1990. Gophers, ftp, muds etc. Even more crazy was I had the same username!
amazing!
In the 2000s the main discussion was being done on forums. Now i feel most of the internet discourse occurs in the social media platforms.
I remember when you could not show pictures to get the pages up faster. And MSN messenger was so nice back then, they really succeeded to destroy it
Windows millennium being stable? That's an odd statement lol
The OS that you heard of so very often but no one you knew had it
I feel guilty saying I loved Windows ME ☺️
Very Cool review
RUclips traveller here. Excellent video. I want that sweet old-school PC setup
Great vid.
I miss the old days man😪
really good video
I feel so old 👴🏻
Olskool Vibes with Amiga Dan:-))
PS: Right now I'm locked into 2001 and there's no place I'll rather be like Clean Bandit..
ur channel is a goldmine
Just tried this on iBrowse on my A1200 - absolutely brilliant! Like going back in time :-)
6:23. I watched that site for awhile. My friends and I were WAITING for melee. We all loved smash. I used to use msn net dial up.
General Mills cereal used to have an awesome flash game website
Remember the ads? "X10 Cameras" and "Punch the Monkey" ?. How about sites like Deja News ? How about Dogpile search engine? ICQ ?
I had forgotten about Punch the Monkey. Those were pop-ups, right? I hated those things with a passion, lol.
Actually no, they were banner ads. Still annoying.
Wow I had forgotten about the very specific aesthetic of websites around this time.
It was also a very sad year with all those who were murdered on September 11th
Horrible day, I’ll never forget.
Man does this bring back memories, I used to visit the Apple website daily debating on giving them a try. I eventually switched when OSX Jaguar came out, bought a G3 IBook and an IPod 2nd gen as I was away at school. Here I am 20 years later and still using Mac’s wishing that Apple would have some “fun” in designing their products like they did back then.
I think the 2021 iMacs are pretty "fun", the splash of colour makes them feel like the classic home computer again.
Back to the time when windows xp was released in 2001 and finding out what people did on windows xp in 2001
The proxy would be such a good prank on someone hahahahaha
Haha yeah I thought of setting up a guest Wifi network and putting the proxy it via my router, would be a good prank when friends visit and connect to my Wifi.
I still have my iBook G3. And it didn't have wi-fi built in!. 'AirPort ready' was a slimey markering term that just meant it had a slot for the card that you had to buy seperately!
Omg I didn't remember the Google old version which I met much years ago, when I was used to use Windows XP
The Wayback Machine is a godsend It truley is.
I wish people used WebGL to create websites with 3d sections like how Vir2L used pre rendered 3d stuff in their V4 website version
Thank you.
I worked on library computers back in the 80s before internet and that was weird. Hours and hours of typing. I don't miss dial-up, waiting forever for a web page to load. And then the loading bar line. It would go almost to the end and almost download and then the computer would freeze 😂
F**k sake Dan...I'm watching this with a bad back. As if I didn't feel old enough ready
I started using internet in 1991 before web browsers even existed.
I had a CD shaped portable CD player. So glad when I got a Touch.
Windows XP was my first computer
100,000? They have over 6.5 million articles today.
While you can obviously tell 2001 internet is different from today, to me when comparing it to the 1999s, 2001 was a cross over year where those most basic websites were disappearing in transition to something slightly more resembling what we have today.
This is the early era of the internet I remember the most as I was 12 years old and finally had my own computer for my browsing leisure.
I remember 2001-2005 being roughly the same with a lot of website styling changes occurring based on windows xp styling. 2005 after the release of youtube and the social networks, was really what was the final nail pushing us in modern times. The rest is history from there.
I can ramble on about memories from the past, but I will leave it here as you cannot live in the past forever.
Remember all the Flash websites when that came out! I always was intrigued but was definitely harder to code
craziest thing was everybody was using an irc client and there where so many, many scripts and addons for it.
I m lost in tat era love it
I didn't even have conscience memory until like 2002, but the Nintendo consoles bring back so many memories
So cool 🥰
i used to use a few of those instant messengers.
i miss the sound from my 56k Modem.
That was early back in the day
16:09 They don't go big on that one name/password thing? Just about all of their services are single sign in...a Microsoft account logs you into mail, your PC, your Xbox, you have your Xbox account inside Windows if you open the Xbox app and Xbox Gamepass works for PC games, too :D
Ahhhh this brings back so many memories. Makes me feel all nostalgic haha
It was a bit later on than 2001, but this made me think of Ask Jeeves and the amusing adverts they had for it on TV in the UK
I want to go back to 2001
The first search engine I ever used was Altavista.
The old open source php nuke websites were everywhere
My insomnia began as staying up all night online!
Is there a way to look up certain boards for gameshark codes n64 because unlike today i know there were lots of codes?
I miss it
I actually preferred the Internet back then, ok no videos or at least very slow and grainy but at least every website wasn't flooded with adverts like they are now.
Just use an adblocker
@@supersmashmaster43 I am. Brave browser
Yahoo was more of an internet directory than anything.
I used to throw these free AOL CDs like frisbees down my backyard balcony on the neighbor’s tile roof to see them shatter.
Just the term - surfin
I really luv Y2K espcieally technology & fashion bro 😊
2001: my first pc
Windows 98SE 64MB of ram and 8! MB of video
You're lucky... my first computer..I had a windows 3.1 computer with AOL and Netscape navigator... I found my computer for cheap at the Goodwill...😎 Those were the days!!!
I got my first PC in 2006 but it was already quite old
Celeron 333MHz, 384MB RAM, Diamond Viper V550 (Nvidia Riva TNT), 6.4GB HDD and Windows ME (originally came with Win98)
First pc was 1996.. a Compaq pentium 1, 133mhz, no dedicated graphics! Running 3.1 ;) I was 10. A couple of years later I had a gateway amd duron with TNT2 gpu. Got broadband around 1999-2000, 512k with the stingray modem!
@@jrlx86 my modem was super fast: 56kps😅
@@OwerWorldTube Whattt.... mine too... and I had to go to Napster or limewier to get my mp3 downloaded and one song to be downloaded took forever... surfing the net was a joy back then...😅😎🤣
It was also the year the Dreamcast left us
Not to mention cable internet so no more slow dialup messing up the phone
Pokemon Crystal!
I wish someone would've shown me how to use an N64 controller when it was in stores
Surfing the web in 2024: man all this ai shit suucks
Surfing the web in 2001: They did WHAT to the world trade centre??
I feel 10 Years old once again 🤣
wow i completely forgot about google groups. back when newsgroups were popular-ish
Hard nostalgia for the Nintendo site!
is there day by day webpages or just selected one time/day from the specific year?
For a specific date guess you'll need to access the Wayback Machine directly instead of through TheOldNet, which will break compatibility with most old browsers. Don't know if it will work with RetroZilla though, maybe you want to give it a try.
@@BilisNegra Thank you! I'm not using old browser anyway. Cheers
what version of netscape are you using? any version i use on win 98 just refuse to open most of the sites
I was using the AOL inbuilt Netscape browser
quite a few sites don't have their images archived, just to curb your expectations a bit.
@@gravitone no i was talking about visiting semi Modern sites still online and all