http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6506369.stm

I too have had a similar experience. I started online in 1994, working within BT at Martlesham in Suffolk to spread the gospel of HTML, the intra/internet and all that good stuff. I was sat on the end of the fastest line into the UK - approx 2Mbit/s. I moved away from the coal face for a few years after the tech crash, becoming a content consumer rather than a content creator, but in the last 12 months I have come back to the web as a private project. What I have found has changed beyond all recognition. Im confronted by Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and a hundred other services that we would have avoided like the plague at the time of the crash. And the days of hacking together a page in notepad are gone too. While I could quite happily code in frames (yuck!) and have roll-over buttons (ooh, funky!), now to get a halfway decent page Ive had to download and install blogging software (Wordpress) and apply different styles until Ive found one I like. God help me if I ever try to customise it. I suddenly feel very old, and Im still a few years off 40. Technical experience is worth nothing in the web world, because the web of 1994 - or even 2000 - is of no greater relevence today than the manual typewriter.

So who here is old enough to have used teletype and BBSs? Oh and notepad...pffft, real HTML coders use vi or nano.

Im not quite that old, but Im easily old enough to remember being totally blown away by the shear speed of a friends 64K ISDN connection.

I started with 2400 on BBS on the Amiga & then when I got my 1st PC (18years ago!).

I didnt actually get "Web access" (ie Images & fancy fonts) until Win 95 was released as I never used to use windows 3.xx & always just used DOS.

The Internet is still used now for what it was back in the day. Sharing Dirty Pictures & Warez

I was one of the bonded ISDN Quake 2 LPB types Ridiculous money really for a quicker connection but I was commeited literally

Cheers
Tongy