one time i downloaded a MIDI of the Friends theme song off of someone’s Angelfire page
I tried to illegally download an MP3 of Simple and Clean but my mom picked up the phone and disconnected our internet.
I made an anime fansite on one of my pet’s pages on neopets.com and every single asset and art on it was direct linked/stolen from other websites because i didnt know how to upload images to the internet myself
I owned and used a .zip drive
I made an anime fan page on Angelfire that just had a bunch of gifs I found for things I liked INCLUDING those ancient ass gifs of a) Pikachu running, b) Pikachu balancing on a Pokeball, c) odd dancing Raichu, and a bunch of Rurouni Kenshin screenshots.
The background was set to black, but had that falling cherry blossoms gif over it.
The font was gold colored and it was COMIC SANS.
i made a fanfiction shrine that was up for two days before getting taken over by middle eastern hackers
the first time i ever used internet explorer i used it to go to the nintendo power website in order to get the toll free number to call nintendo and ask them how to get the raiden magicite in ff3. (otherwise known as ff6)
I downloaded MP3s from AOL chatroom mp3 bots. Also cgshrines was my original danbooru. (IT’S STILL AROUND, AMAZINGLY)
I used to watch a music video of one of my fave low-key boy bands (No Authority, what up?) on their interactive CD in the Mac Lab after school.
I once made a Kingdom Hearts AMV set to Good Charlotte’s “Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous” on Windows Movie Maker and uploaded it to Kazaa.
I had a Gorillaz fanpage that had a built in chat feature that I used to talk to my friends while in computer class because other messaging clients were disabled. Â I was found out pretty quickly.
I actually printed out the neopets permission form for my parents to sign and then physically mailed it to them bc scanning and emailing it was beyond the realm of my ability
The AOL Parental controls on my account wouldn’t let me access half the Sailor Moon fansites I wanted to visit, so my parents let me borrow theirs sometimes so I could freely browse them.
I made an As Told by Ginger fansite on Geocities.
I bought and paid for a second phone line at my parents’ so I could go online safetly. I also got a domain name for a couple years, pointing to my GeoCities page that had a black background, rainbow text, and animated GIFS.
My first internet search was on my neighbors’ computer, with AOL, and I searched for Hanson.
