Hmmmm it seems the author wasn't online in 2000... Online Technologies: LiveJournal, ICQ, MIRC, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, or starting July 1, 2000 for those who wanted to rule them all Trillian. Pretty much everything that our modern web architecture does could be replicated there. It's just easier and slicker now.

I'd normally wake up, (computer was of course running 24/7) check ICQ for messages, check on my downloads and chats on MIRC, read my friends LiveJournal posts and head off for school. If I needed a big file I would burn it to cd the night before and could simply grab the cd, for something small can always post online on my file server (don't remember what I used but remember having a semi easy solution that ran locally on my home computer). Pretty much everything we do now I could do then, just the time lag was bigger, didn't really matter to me though, you just plan ahead a bit more. If I want to hang out with someone send them an ICQ, they'll get it when they're home, etc. In the meantime I'll log onto an MMO, maybe an old school MUD, Ultima Online, or Everquest. Or maybe I'll play some CounterStrike. On my broadband internet. Yes things have advanced in the last decade, but 2000 was far from the technical wasteland that this article paints.