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

Formality

Next, if you forgot to include the abbreviated ‘www.’ before any URL, your browser would have no idea what was expected of it. A website would not load unless the proper address was entered in its entirety. Nowadays, you can just type ‘Google’ or ‘Facebook’ into the search bar, and instantly you are brought to the page of your choice. In the 1990s, the internet was not so simple. Imagine all that time that people spent typing ‘www’ and the countless other things it could have been spent doing. Selfies, maybe (if they had been around back then). Unfortunately, we'll never know.