While today the Internet is an obvious part of the equipment of companies, institutions, schools and households, and we can also use it on the screens of our phones, tablets and even smart watches, at the turn of the millennium this was not the case. Although some households could boast of a dial-up and relatively expensive connection to the global network, many people were relegated to visiting Internet cafes or surreptitiously surfing on a work computer. What did some of the most visited Czech websites look like back then? And which sites were your favorites at the time?
You might be interested in
iDnes
Already at the turn of the millennium, there were people who slowly began to switch from buying a daily newspaper to drawing news from various Internet portals. Even then, the news website iDnes.cz enjoyed relatively great popularity. In the gallery, you can see what this portal looked like in 1998, 1999 or 2000, and watch the gradual transformation from a site with a beige background to an understated design in a combination of black, white and red.
The invisible dog
Writer Ondřej Neff is one of the prominent figures of the early days of the Czech Internet. At a time when the Internet was becoming aoneHe soon gained more momentum, started running his own website called Invisible Dog, where readers could learn about world news every day, read short stories from the everyday life of Ondřej Neff and his family (especially the dog Bart, later his successors) and much more.
Gallery
Seznam.cz
During the second half of the 1990s, the website also launched its operations Seznam.czIt was a signpost that visitors could use to read news from home and abroad, but also to find contacts for various companies and institutions, read the television program, and of course, set up their own e-mail address.
Gallery
Download.cz
Almost all of us have visited the website Stahuj.cz at some point, whether to download a game, wallpaper or useful software. This portal has been in operation since 2000, and in addition to downloading or viewing rankings of the most downloaded items, visitors could also read short news from the IT field. On screenshotIn the gallery you can see which software was among the most downloaded on this website - what content did you download most often from Stahuj.cz?
Atlas.cz
The Atlas.cz portal has also been in operation since the late 1990s. Similar to Seznam or Centrum, it served as a multi-purpose website, allowing visitors to access domestic and foreign news, search for information, browse a catalog of websites or contacts for various companies and institutions, and even chatin various themed rooms. Later, the option of web hosting or setting up your own email account was also added.
Mobile operators
Initially, companies operated in our country EuroTel and Paegas, and Oskar joined them a little later. The websites of these operators offered information about services, stores, or mobile phones.onech that were available on the market at the time, but among the very popular features on the operators' websites were also SMS gateways for sending free text messages. Did you also use them?
Gallery
Internet magazine
In the late 1990s, a printed magazine with the simple but apt title Internet was published. This very successful magazine provided information about the Internet and related topics in a style that was interesting, engaging, and at the same time maxperfectly understandable even for ordinary users. You could find its web version at inetmag.cz, where you could read news, breaking news and more comprehensive articles, interesting tips, or perhaps view older issues.
Cool! :)
Great article, I enjoy this!
That probably never worked for me 😃