It was the late 90s and early 00s. Those Pentium IIIs, Pentium 4s and AMD Athlon 64 reviews.
I am surprised how many knew El Reg and The Inquirer. I guess The internet was small then, I bet many under 30s may not have even heard of the two. We dont even do searching. We just go to Yahoo Directory and randomly click on some links. That was what Surfing the internet was really about. ( Might not have been the case if you are from US, from I have been told Surfing Internet was basically surfing AOL at the time)
I think Ars was in similar time frame, but they were not really daily news site, and focus more quality lengthy articles.
All these were before RSS was even a thing. I remember using a program called Website Monitor to check for changes to website. Thinking of it now make me realise how early it was my news addiction started.
Making a web page was basically GeoCities, doing anything serious on the web meant Perl / CGI-Bin, Front End was just simple ( in relative terms ) DHTML.
While we might have other communication and messaging platform ( IRC ) before, I believe ICQ was the first real "Instant Messenger". I remember my ICQ number being 6 digit only. That was pretty cool for its time as it meant you are early members.
Gosh this is bringing back lots of memories... While I dont read Inquirer any more, much like OP I moved on once Mike left the site. Somewhere on the back of my mind I know it is there, sometimes seeing links from Inquirer get posted on Reddit or HN, and put a smile on my face.
It was the late 90s and early 00s. Those Pentium IIIs, Pentium 4s and AMD Athlon 64 reviews.
I am surprised how many knew El Reg and The Inquirer. I guess The internet was small then, I bet many under 30s may not have even heard of the two. We dont even do searching. We just go to Yahoo Directory and randomly click on some links. That was what Surfing the internet was really about. ( Might not have been the case if you are from US, from I have been told Surfing Internet was basically surfing AOL at the time)
I think Ars was in similar time frame, but they were not really daily news site, and focus more quality lengthy articles.
All these were before RSS was even a thing. I remember using a program called Website Monitor to check for changes to website. Thinking of it now make me realise how early it was my news addiction started.
Making a web page was basically GeoCities, doing anything serious on the web meant Perl / CGI-Bin, Front End was just simple ( in relative terms ) DHTML.
While we might have other communication and messaging platform ( IRC ) before, I believe ICQ was the first real "Instant Messenger". I remember my ICQ number being 6 digit only. That was pretty cool for its time as it meant you are early members.
Gosh this is bringing back lots of memories... While I dont read Inquirer any more, much like OP I moved on once Mike left the site. Somewhere on the back of my mind I know it is there, sometimes seeing links from Inquirer get posted on Reddit or HN, and put a smile on my face.
I guess I am old. Sad to see it go.