Rewind·Posted on May 17, 2017If You're Under 16, You Won't Believe What The Internet Used To Be Like"Get off the internet. I need the phone!"by Kat AngusBuzzFeed Staff, CanadaLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. We connected to the internet using this kind of setup: 2. And we had to connect through the phone line. THIS kind of phone: 3. We had to sit through this noise in order to connect: View this video on YouTube youtube.com 4. We could only use the internet OR the phone, not both at the same time: Beth Stone @beth_gucci A sentence I'll never hear again: "Beth, get off the phone I need to use the internet!" 05:57 PM - 25 Feb 2017 Reply Retweet Favorite Shawn Reynolds @ShawnWTVM9 "Get off the internet, I need to use the phone" - words we used to say 05:35 PM - 19 Apr 2017 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. And that's only after we installed the internet using one of these: 6. We surfed the internet using browsers like this: 7. And search engines like this: 8. To find websites like this: 9. That is, if the page even loaded properly: 10. Plus, we had to actually type "www" before the URL, or else it wouldn't work at all: 11. We found directions on MapQuest, but had to print them out to take in the car: 12. We memorized our ICQ numbers so we could chat with our friends: 13. And we came up with the perfect AIM screen names (because we didn't want anyone on the internet to know who we were): 14. But we eventually switched to MSN Messenger because it was so much better: 15. W3 4ll l34rn3d 70 7yp3 l1k3 7h15.* 16. We downloaded music on LimeWire and had to hope it wasn't really a virus: 17. And it took FOREVER: 18. Then we played the music using programs like this: 19. But we worked tirelessly to create our own webpages because we loved the internet so much: 20. Making sure to add these GIFs to the page so everyone knew it was a work in progress: Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 21. And no matter what else happened, the best part of our day was hearing the "You've Got Mail!" sound. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF