Internet de l'époque [English translation]

It was the time of the Internet of old days

At the time, there were no pokes

We didn't google, we lycosed on Lycos

We planned dates at night on MSN, to send each other wizzes

Phones didn't have 4G

Phones were made to make calls

And work out

It was the time of terrible connections

There were balls inside our mice

There was no Tinder, nor even Adopte un mec

So to hook up, we chatter on Caramail or on Voila.fr

We had nicknames but no profile pictures

To met in real, it was not easy

"-Is it you nono26 ?

-Yes, that's me, and you are hottieblondefromparis?

-Yes!"

It was the time that when you surfed

Your parents couldn't use the phone

"Allo? Norman, turn off your internet"

No Deezer, nor Spotify, it was Winamp's time

LimeWire, Morpheus, eMule, ShareHazard or Kazar

To download a movie took three weeks with no break

Every other time, it was a fake

"I didn't know that scene was in Toy Story. It's super well-done, we would like to be there."

At the time, we had floppy drives

We accessed the internet on Netscape

No Wikipedia, we consulted Encarta

The Internet was not well-known

Especially by high-school teachers

In homework assignments, we could copy and paste

Without getting caught

"-So Norman, this is incredible, from a 3 you now scored a 20/20! -Well, you know, I really like everything about Merovingian Mesopotamia, it's my thing

-Well, it's incredible, congratulations, I'm proud of you Norman. It's really amazing, young man, that's for sur."

It was the time when we burned CDs

CDs that were as blank as my sexual history

There was no Youporn, xVideos or xHamster

Adult websites were a little dull

There were only pictures

Including connection, loading took so long

That often we fantasized on hair in a bun

"Oh shit, shit, shit, oh oh oh..."

It was the time of land lines

At breakfast, we ate Kix cereals

Ebay didn't even exist

Some people remember iBazar

Back then, everyone thought it was cool to have a MySpace account

With Tom, we were all friends

That dude had a single picture of himself

"-Hey Tom

-Yeah? Wait I wasn't ready

Oh, that's fine, it doesn't matter, it's not like you were going to keep that picture your whole life

-That's for sure!"

It was the time of the old Internet

Internet from before Copains d'avant

There was no Nyan Cat, with Hugo, we started videos

At the time there was no Nabilla

There were real buzz, ma'am

There was Star Wars Kid, Afro Ninka, Keyboard Car, the Chipmunk and of course, Kamini:

"I didn't come from the ghetto, but the beat was good (the beat was good)

I wasn't from Paris, but from Marly-Gaumont!"

Seriously, these were the good time, ma'am

I also remember him:

"Computer Engineer..."

Well yeah young man, we had a two hour per month plan, on Liberty Surf, Alice, Wanadoo, AOL or Club Internet. Well yeah there was no wi-fi, only 56k modems

We couldn't send snapchats, nor sextos, we showed our dicks in real! Heat it up PV, heat it up!

• Artist:Norman