re: Does anyone miss the (mostly) anonymous Chat Rooms back in the 90's

I feel this way about the entire internet. Back in the mid 90s when my family first got it and I was still a kid I thought the internet was the coolest thing ever. It was like a wild west frontier of unexplored territory. Every day you would find something new, it was like going on an expedition into uncharted waters every day.

Now the internet is completely "colonized" and settled, its all streamlined and nothing is new about it.

The fact that I could get real time baseball scores blew my mind. Back when I was a kid if a game on the west coast ended too late, it wouldn't be printed in the newspaper the next day so you had no way to know who won.

Playing the original Quake over a 56k modem was awesome too. Holy shite I am playing this game with people all over the country! Until my mom & dad figured out what Quake was and deleted it.

AOL chat rooms were fun. Talking to random people and trying to get their pics. Or calling people idiots and watching them get mad.

We first got internet in 1995 or so... back when Goosebumps was still big. First site on AOL I ever went to was a Goosebumps fan site... pic took like 3 minutes to load.

I got into IRC beacuse of Pokemon, but it also was a place to download movies and music before Napster. And making mIRC scripts to go to war with other IRC users. I still use IRC to this day although its about 5% of what it used to be in its peak.

Long story short the internet used to be a place of mystery and exploration, an unknown frontier. It was better then.

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I loved some IRC

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IRC was awesome. Probably the one thing I miss the most about the old days.

I made a couple of pen pals off of that. Met one of them in the hockey chat room.