The INTERNET before the year 2000

DUDES, HELP! My memory is b0rked and I don't remember barely a thing before the year 2000. I need you kind people to help refresh my memory with various internet events, happenings, links, and websites from before the year 2000. I don't have enough monies for a time machine and there is nothing else I can do.

PLEASE IT'S IMPORTANT

kthx.

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In no particular order: Shitty browsers, 56 Kbps, GeoCities, CJayC's GameFAQs, Dejanews, AltaVista, no porn vids in HTTP, PornZilla or GodZilla or something like that for TGPs (in the very late 1990s), crappy ads shaped like Windows 2000 windows so you click on them, Casino online, 1~3 MB Hotmail complete with a load of spam every day, mostly "university diplomas" and "baldness solution", no P2P.