I also remember a great time when the unwashed masses couldn't use Facebook. It was just the unwashed students back then.
To be honest, I was a relatively late adopter to Facebook, in that sense. I think I joined 2007 ish.
I really, really miss having to buy a browser! :-S
Opera used to charge for their browser. They stubbornly continued to do so for a long long time, despite there being arguably better free browsers available.
Also back before IE existed pretty much all browsers (what few there were) were pay for. We really have MS to thank for free browsers :Y
(When IE came out for free, Netscape shat themselves because if it gained dominance (and it would, being free) it would allow MS to pervert the web protocols/standards and corner the server market (which is where NS made their real money). So they released the source to the Netscape suite and launched the Mozilla project. And... the rest is history :Y )
You see that Opera switched rendering engines to Blink (i.e. Google's webkit)?
Such a strange move.
Although, hmmm, the main thing that stopped me using Opera was that it fucked up rendering too often. Might give it a pop :Y
Most people understand it less now than they did then.