This Was The Internet In 1995

[rcjordan]

http://www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-was-the-internet-in-1995-2013-4?op=1

[Mackin USA]

Yep = Compuserve & that NOISE 

"Markoff says you shouldn't put your password on the Net, or your credit card.
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[rcjordan]

i did email my cc# once in 1995- or 6. Companies were online with brochureware and a contact page which sometimes had an email address. Rare to have a form for product inquiry. Cart? No,  that'd be rocket science.

[littleman]

>or your credit card.

I remember I was looking at shopping cart solutions back in the mid 90s and there was a popular one that stored CC numbers on a plain text document with a conventional name.   I did an AltaVista (i think) search for the file name and came up with dozens of pages of CC numbers for the taking.  Crazy stuff.

[ukgimp]

In 95 I was introduced to the Usernet and UUDECODE and porn was everywhere. All done at on university networks too haha

[Rooftop]

That compuserve screen brought it back.  I remember by dad going mental when he got the first phone bill in after I discovered it! (in fairness he did show me how to set it up and created the compuserve account - so it shouldn't have been a massive surprise)

Re early commerce:  We did our first real-time online payments in 98 from memory.  We were definitely doing some scary wrong shit prior to that (involving webforms and click-clack machines). In fairness we would have nailed online payments earlier, but it took over a year to get approval from the bank.  All that they knew about the internet at the time was that it was scary.

[Mackin USA]

I moved from CompuServe to EarthLink early on.
http://www.internetservice.net/2011/10-descriptions-of-offerings-from-early-isps/

At the time I was able to walk into their Portland OR office to pay my bill in cash or check.
I ask an employee where I might host a website. He didn't know but said they had a corporate client in Vancouver WA who had there own server and MIGHT let me use a potion of it.

Never did that but that was a long time ago...

[grnidone]

1995 was when I was in California starving. 

But in 1994....No nice interface like that for me.  I was using a Sun Sparc station and TALK to talk to people all over the place and making my html/ perl pages with vi text editor.  Black background with lime green text.  Everything was command line driven.  I think my email address was grnidldy@ksu.ksu.edu or something along those lines...

I still had a mainframe account on the K-State mainframe and would play dungeon and dragons and I'd have *at least* 8 windows open talking to people and working.

That was a *long* time ago.  I can't remember the commands to do all that stuff...

[keano]

Takes me back to memories of Pegasus Mail and Mosaic in the mid 90's...