Back in the early days of the Internet, I was literally a 14/f/Cali. I spent hours on Kazaa illegally downloading such classics as “All The Small Things,” “I Did It All For The Nookie,” and “Falling Away From Me.” One could say I had impeccable taste in music. But hey, it was a more primitive time.

In a post in Reddit’s crowdsourcing community, users shared their earliest memories of that thing you call the “World Wide Web.” For some, this goes all the way back to the ’80s. And others fondly reflected on porno searches in the early ’00s.

So, let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?

First, this is what the Internet looked like in the ’90s (ah, nice and shitty):

And remember “The Butler?” Before Google, there was this nauseating search engine:

For all you youngins that never had the pleasure of “Asking Jeeves,” Urban Dictionary describes it as “the most fucked search engine ever.” (And that was back in 2004).

This is Jeeves: a cute, charming English butler (stereotype much?) that would “retrieve” your answer for you. Jeeves ruled the late ’90s until Google came along with a superior search algorithm.

And then there was dial-up, which meant only ONE person in an entire household could “surf” the Internet at a time. Let me repeat that: ONE PERSON. I’m not sure how we all survived those dark times:

And because we all had to share one phone line, we developed ingenious tactics to maximize our addictions:

Our parents were worried that we’d become victims of those “hacker viruses” that they warned us about on important news shows like The Phil Donahue Show.

Little did they know, we were already committing illegal acts.

Searching for porn, however, was a struggle:

In fact, we made a LOT of mistakes:

Some of us were more successful than others at hiding our nefarious activities from our parents:

And if we thought we had it tough in the early ’00s, it was a lot worse in the ’80s:

But as we learned from Reddit user offworldcolonial, the 1980s was a very interesting decade to explore the Internet: