Remember the days of HTML-ing your AOL profile? There was no such thing as a witty away message, and there was an overly-active message board for the Spice Girls and Pokémon and just about anything else you were interested in. (And you know you were!)

Laugh at your old Internet-awed-self with Slate Magazine‘s tech columnist Farhad Manjoo as he takes you back to a time when we painted CSS code on cave walls.

If you like Manjoo’s piece, read his book: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. And if you haven’t had enough childhood flashbacks for one day, play this.