21 Things Anybody Under 16 Won't Believe About How We Used The Internet

Better Than Nothing…?

Like just about everything else, the internet of the 90s had its pros and cons. Sometimes, viewing an image or an article of text proved to be too difficult of a task for dial-up connections. It seemed that if the internet was having a slow day, there was no chance of getting the full picture (literally). If the internet was feeling generous, it might divulge three-quarters of an image, leaving the rest a lovely shade of gray. Of course, the internet has never had any real bias, but talk to anybody who lived through the 1990s, and they will say that sometimes, it felt like their computer was a hater.