10 Things Only 90s Wrestling Fans Will Understand
2. The Internet's Infancy
First, a quick experiment.
Whip out your phone, open YouTube and punch in anything pro wrestling related. It shouldn't take longer than 30 seconds to start enjoying content, right? Then, imagine tapping the app and waiting two-three minutes as it painfully loaded the page pixel by bloody pixel.
That was how the "World Wide Web" worked. It was slow as balls, and so slow in fact that the WWF's bold claim that their website was the "hottest place in cyberspace" seems cringeworthy now. Though it was legitimately mind-breaking at the time, in reality it was major test of patience.
Sympathisers reading this article will recall the nightmarish dial-up tones that accompanied every connection attempt. They may also remember that wrestling content was grainy, took an absolute age to load and didn't actually offer much beyond some pics and "other cool stuff".