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You dialed up to the world wide web with the utmost excitement. What treasures would await?
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But once online, all you could do was stare into the unknown chasm of the internet and think, "now what?"
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You'd finally arrived online only to find that the whole thing was such a mystery.
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Maybe you should just go to Waterstones and find a book about the internet.
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Wait, there was a website address printed in the inlay of the last CD you bought...
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Hands up anyone who then used the "contact us" page to tell huge bands that they loved them and should play in their town.
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How about asking Jeeves some of the burning questions that you've always wanted answered?
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Unless, as a discerning internet n00b, you went for a more serious search engine.
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Time to make some new internet friends in one of those cool ~chatrooms~ you've heard about.
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Or maybe you went straight to the Melody Maker forum and take the piss out of people who liked shitter bands than you.
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It was MSN all the way if you wanted to talk to your IRL mates online, though.
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Until your parents ruined your conversation by picking up the phone and breaking the connection.
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Creating an email address like "iluvBRMC@excite.com", was your chance to show the online world how cool you were.
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If your friends didn't have email yet, you could go to a website and send them a text for free.
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Why buy music anymore when you could just download Napster?
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Or just play your own using all those guitar tabs you'd printed out.
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As soon as Metallica went and ruined Napster, you just downloaded Kazaa insead.
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Then you'd burn all the nu-metal songs you'd downloaded onto a CD.
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Don't pretend you didn't put a picture of yourself on Hot or Not.
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The internet might have been a bit shit in the '90s, but chances are, you've not looked back since you first sipped from its poisoned chalice.
