The Internet As It Was in 2001 - Old Websites

[@P5ychoFox]

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.

[@Acolis]

this is the most 2001 thing i have ever heard

[@Kevinb1821]

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

[@patrickstar2845]

@@Kevinb1821 Are you kidding me? Nowadays that in box snes is $300

[@u1timatesquid803]

I was born in oct 2001😳

[@Icureditwithmybrain]

@@u1timatesquid803 I started gaming in 1991

[@MR-qy9op]

When there was actual creativity in making website's and not oversimplified logos like now. It was simple time and really good stuff

[@joeshmoe000]

Yeah, and those full screen page blackout popups didn't exist (whatever that's called).

[@nuttyjawa]

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

[@Vysair]

It's a matter of taste. Plus Win11 design language is beautiful, everyone should do it like them or follow Google material design

[@JonnyInfinite]

KZbin in about 2009 was amazing

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes lumber tycoon 2 is better

[@CasioMaker]

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

[@nevyanplamenov5409]

You probably lived your youth in the best time of human history

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes one cares about Blox Fruits.

[@steelysam7189]

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.

[@visionplusdrive]

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.

[@emsss78]

There was no rubbish social media platforms back then..life was simple and fun

[@joeshmoe000]

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.

[@NateB-v5h]

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.

[@themodfather9382]

@@NateB-v5h Yes, plebs love mediocrity.

[@belstar1128]

I really miss that era it was better than the 90s internet but more diverse than the modern internet.

[@MegaManNeo]

It was the proper Internet evolved.

[@tomyyoung2624]

yes and yes

[@Zero11s]

even that old website Design makes me nostalgic

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

This is when I REALLY got into "surfing" the net!

[@TheBlueThird]

Yup!

[@angusmeigh5141]

I started using the Internet way back in March 1999. When I started using it at the library.

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes problem!

[@V3ntilator]

I started using internet in 1991 before web browsers even existed.

[@TheFlareMind]

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).

[@cappaculla]

15:08 Was nice of Steve Jobs to appear on the XP web page

[@andljoy]

Ahhh back when webpages where form over function and not designed by so called web developers .... i miss good websites.

[@janeporter818]

Same. Those were the good old days

[@Acolis]

websites are garbage these days.

[@CasioMaker]

@@Acolis Websites today are nothing more than pages sticked together with tons of JavaScript patches clogging bandwidth

[@backwardsface3046]

Nowadays it’s like they stick the pages together with glitter glue

[@TheGuvOfWythenshawe]

I only turned 22 in August 2001! Gonna have some fun looking back at these retro sites! Happy days!

[@KarlHamilton]

OK boomer

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

@@KarlHamilton ok script kiddie

[@etriganthedemon666]

And then I was born a months later

[@pumpedupbro4200]

@@etriganthedemon666 i was born 17 years earlier

[@etriganthedemon666]

@@pumpedupbro4200 dang how old r u now?

[@LEVELMotorsports]

The whole Internet was better back then. Fight me.

[@moonshinepz]

Before google turned into an advertising company and decided what your website had to look like and decided what "good" content meant.

[@BilisNegra]

Well, we could start with KZbin not being around for instance?

[@museum1401]

I'd say no Facebook was a plus.

[@jaredballoonboy7944]

The internet today is way better. Don't lie.

[@nucleartaco04]

@@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.

[@joeharley1423]

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 ;)

[@groovegroove2336]

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.

[@ohmatit3838]

We cannot go back in time to browse the old website. But it must be lived in the present and in the future.

[@ojbeez5260]

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!!

[@TheOldNet]

Thanks for doing this follow up video Dan! We're always working on new features, plenty more to come!

[@CantankerousDave]

The proto-internet in the mid Nineties was interesting, since graphical web browsers were so new.

[@johnperivolaris6447]

Did anyone else get the chills when reading the "US reacts to heightened terror threat" news article on CNN published on June 22 2001?

[@christianbell8347]

I don't get it...? 😅

[@johnperivolaris6447]

@@christianbell8347 This was only 2 months before 9/11.

[@christianbell8347]

@@johnperivolaris6447 I... still don't get it. Sorry, makes no sense.

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

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.

[@NichlasHummelsberger]

That's your fault for not using a download manager!

[@madfinntech]

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.

[@KeepingitReal4]

How did mobile phones ruin the internet?

[@Phenom0420]

@@KeepingitReal4 having to design a website that works automatically on a desktop and a mobile web browser removing some of the freedom, probably

[@MinisterRedPill]

​@@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.

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes at lie!

[@PraveenSrJ01]

It was also a very sad year with all those who were murdered on September 11th

[@danwood_uk]

Horrible day, I’ll never forget.

[@SefiricAcid]

KZbin traveller here. Excellent video. I want that sweet old-school PC setup

[@hkhj139]

You are so eloquently explaining everything! that's awesome

[@bobfromsoireegames4309]

Well, he is British..

[@basukisugito3275]

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

[@HungLoo]

I can totally so relate to just about everything in this video. The early 2000's was really an interesting time back then.

[@wisemonkey9858]

The internet as it was during 9/11

[@TexasGreed]

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.

[@GabiN64]

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.

[@mae2759]

The worst part is that the discourse gets shoveled into your face (news feed) on social media, whereas on the forums you had to actively go look to participate. I miss that version.

[@Pugwash.]

Go further! I remember using the internet in 1990. Gophers, ftp, muds etc. Even more crazy was I had the same username!

[@pauls4522]

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.

[@contractor556]

Remember all the Flash websites when that came out! I always was intrigued but was definitely harder to code

[@delukard07]

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.

[@vmgomez87]

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.

[@jpete3027666]

2001 is when I first got “high speed” cable internet which was such a leap from the dial up I was used to. I started using eBay and Amazon in 2001. Seems like last week, but it was such an exciting time. I was 22 and the future of technology seemed to interesting and exciting. Now, the future of technology seems to he all about AI and that honestly freaks me out a bit. Ahh the late 90’s and 2000’s was an awesome time.

[@lovely-shrubbery8578]

Man, thats a throwback

[@joeblow8593]

Remember the ads? "X10 Cameras" and "Punch the Monkey" ?. How about sites like Deja News ? How about Dogpile search engine? ICQ ?

[@musiclist4792]

I had forgotten about Punch the Monkey. Those were pop-ups, right? I hated those things with a passion, lol.

[@musiclist4792]

Actually no, they were banner ads. Still annoying.

[@NeonEUC]

Totally spoiling us this week Dan, 2 videos in a week is awesome. Love it 😀😍

[@Tooxcade]

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!

[@SaudAhmedShaikh]

Back to the time when windows xp was released in 2001 and finding out what people did on windows xp in 2001

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

Windows millennium being stable? That's an odd statement lol

[@patrickbarks997]

The OS that you heard of so very often but no one you knew had it

[@hopephremixredux]

I feel guilty saying I loved Windows ME ☺️

[@mae2759]

Windows came out with a good release every other year. 98, XP, 7 were all good. ME/2000, Vista, 8 were all crap. I'm fully convinced most Mac users were people that bought Windows PCs on those crap years.

[@NyxusPluto]

I wasn’t around during this time, but this feels so nostalgic.

[@renasdulcek1334]

Theoldnet and their modem like stuff is great nostalgia

[@TheGamingCircle]

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..

[@emiel333]

Very cool. 2001 was one of my favorite years when it came to technology. Subscribed!!

[@BrendanBeckett]

Wow I had forgotten about the very specific aesthetic of websites around this time.

[@og2tone492]

I miss the old days man😪

[@thespunone71]

I miss your weekly soulful house shows! On point from start to finish!!! Thank you.

[@JoeAyres]

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 :-)

[@ModernVintageTV0]

The Wayback Machine is a godsend It truley is.

[@TheInkPitOx]

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.

[@nikaluss5946]

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.

[@roninxix4428]

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.

[@memethanYT]

I think the 2021 iMacs are pretty "fun", the splash of colour makes them feel like the classic home computer again.

[@superamario6464]

F**k sake Dan...I'm watching this with a bad back. As if I didn't feel old enough ready

[@happyatheists9361]

ur channel is a goldmine

[@franm.k.5832]

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 😂

[@stormkeepergu]

This has given me a few ideas regarding getting other older devices online, such as PDAs!

[@nicwilson89]

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

[@Faceplant-hl5yn]

craziest thing was everybody was using an irc client and there where so many, many scripts and addons for it.

[@3PCTManOrBust]

I used to throw these free AOL CDs like frisbees down my backyard balcony on the neighbor’s tile roof to see them shatter.

[@kirishima638]

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!

[@AlexMitchell-sj4sb]

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.

[@supersmashmaster43]

Just use an adblocker

[@AlexMitchell-sj4sb]

@@supersmashmaster43 I am. Brave browser

[@willrobinson7599]

Great video back to the golden days of the Internet and hardware advances

[@akhilaryappatt]

I really want a time machine. Just to visit 2000s again

[@KarlHamilton]

The proxy would be such a good prank on someone hahahahaha

[@danwood_uk]

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.

[@weareone553]

I didn't even have conscience memory until like 2002, but the Nintendo consoles bring back so many memories

[@V3ntilator]

I started using internet in 1991 before web browsers even existed.

[@madfinntech]

"Take your MP3 collection"... That you downloaded from Napster...

[@devilsMasquerade]

Surfing the web in 2024: man all this ai shit suucks Surfing the web in 2001: They did WHAT to the world trade centre??

[@mrgrumpy888]

I feel so old 👴🏻

[@gretagutierrez-colomer954]

Omg I didn't remember the Google old version which I met much years ago, when I was used to use Windows XP

[@DJAutism1]

I wish people used WebGL to create websites with 3d sections like how Vir2L used pre rendered 3d stuff in their V4 website version

[@offthetrail636]

General Mills cereal used to have an awesome flash game website

[@merkyuk]

The old open source php nuke websites were everywhere

[@PooperScooperTrooper]

Just tried this on iBrowse on my A1200 - absolutely brilliant! Like going back in time :-)

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

My insomnia began as staying up all night online!

[@davinp]

Forget the iPod. Apple stole the mp3 player idea and patent from Creative Labs. The Creative Zen MP3 player is a better MP3 player

[@hopephremixredux]

True. I still have my Creative ZEN with me. Though it no longer boots up. 😔

[@LR2894h]

Non techie people like me hated using computers and the Internet back then because they were soooo un user friendly

[@Everclearfan86]

It was also the year the Dreamcast left us

[@km76]

Yahoo was more of an internet directory than anything.

[@MarianoEnUSA]

amazing!

[@brentdecarteret2343]

Love these kind of videos

[@pabloXL]

wow i completely forgot about google groups. back when newsgroups were popular-ish

[@DJSvenNo1]

Very nostalgic, thanks Dan :)

[@AmiMagTV]

So cool. Tanx for the video.

[@kalandobrown8091]

Thank you.

[@TheInkPitOx]

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

[@pumpedupbro4200]

I want to go back to 2001

[@OliverLoganBlue]

It such a shame you can't search for anything on old versions of google

[@andreasck1758]

i miss the sound from my 56k Modem.

[@madfinntech]

The first search engine I ever used was Altavista.

[@Zontar82]

what version of netscape are you using? any version i use on win 98 just refuse to open most of the sites

[@Zero11s]

I was using the AOL inbuilt Netscape browser

[@gravitone]

quite a few sites don't have their images archived, just to curb your expectations a bit.

[@Zontar82]

@@gravitone no i was talking about visiting semi Modern sites still online and all

[@rottmanthan]

i used to use a few of those instant messengers.

[@OwerWorldTube]

2001: my first pc Windows 98SE 64MB of ram and 8! MB of video

[@justinnewton7366]

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!!!

[@Pasi123]

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)

[@jrlx86]

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!

[@OwerWorldTube]

@@jrlx86 my modem was super fast: 56kps😅

[@justinnewton7366]

@@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...😅😎🤣

[@chris08091]

really good video

[@akhilaryappatt]

@21:10 that game brings back memories

[@konsolendoc]

Very Cool review

[@musicmastermind6165]

i was born in 2000 and i didnt really use the internet until summer 2014

[@supersmashmaster43]

I was born in 2000 also. Sorry my friend, but you missed out on the fascinating 2000s internet. As a young kid it was a cool experience playing all sorts of games and 2000s youtube was a less corporate and more fun. The internet felt like it started to become perfected by the 2010s, sometimes I wish to relive to 2000s internet times.

[@sphypix9821]

Nice edit 🎉🎉🎉

[@pifatech]

Whitelisting the way back machine means you can access the way back machine without the proxy!