We had most of the stuff on that list back in 1996, it was called "Geocities Free Web Hosting".

I remember geocities 'golden' days. Lot of people had those crappy page full of animated banner and popup :)

The web has changed SO much. I got online in 1996 with my first computer.
I remember a lot of banners, animations and pop-ups. *sigh

Now I have a blog, no more manually updating HTML pages...limited functionality with GeoCities....we can do so much online today!

And social media blew the roof off the joint!

Yes, I remember my first days of being online back in 1992 with AOL. They gave you that AOL cd with the computer you bought back then. Dial-up (tell everyone in the house not to use the phone for an hour til you were done etc.) The adult sights were flashing and ridgid (no pun intended, ha), everything seemed surreal.

It was so exciting! This brand new portal into anything and everything. Although, so limited by today's standards, still exciting. I can't wait to see what the next 20 years holds for us. Heck, even the next 5 years!

Good luck to us all on this crazy web-coaster!

We need open source digital SLR cameras! :(

Interesting list. It is amazing how much good stuff is free these days. How would we manage with Wordpress, Open Office etc.

To be honest I bought my first computer 5 years ago. I'm not too tech but since I opened for the first time the window of the www from a corner of my apartment all of these terms above became important to me . Why? Cause I decided to make a living from the same corner using that technological progress. Which gave the possibility that I have today reaching the world.

I personally think the web was much more fun when it wasn't a daily thing.. and more of a new thing to explore.

People were born empty and goes empty so what comes in middle is just a medium of happiness and desires which gets fulfilled and again we try something new and highly equipped.i still think that there will be some more other things to come when we will realize the above mention things will be old one day...
keep on writing it's interesting, still improvement is needed.

Interesting post, indeed technology is going forward really fast.

Regards.

-Chin

I think I would add Google search engine to the list. I use it for finding out how to spell a word. Guess what it is faster and better the the spelling checker inside of Microsoft Word.