what's "the old internet" for you?
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@cubeofcheese universities offered their staff (sometimes students) webspace, and because your home directory is marked with a tilde, it was also in the URL. This text has some interesting reflections on it:
https://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/tilde.html@jollysea @cubeofcheese My Uni had one computer in the library, where everyone went to check their email. Which read like a wifi passkey.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea downloading fine art images from
gopher. Blew my mind. Also asking questions on Usenet and getting answers from kernel (SunOs/NetBSD) devs in a matter of hours. -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea
Club Penguin and games on the LEGO website...? -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea websites with funny flash games (Im not old enough to have experienced the time before)
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Modems, mailboxes, FIDOnet
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea
Dial up BBS with an acoustic coupler. -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea I swear this is more accurate than just saying 'Xennial, millenial, etc.
(Personally I'm a geocities/angelfire, younger than the usenets but older than the myspaces.)
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea flash games, flipnote hetana, and image boards/forums for sharing flash games.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea using Morgengrauen instead of chat and mail for messaging.
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B bugspriet@social.tchncs.de shared this topic
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@jollysea using Morgengrauen instead of chat and mail for messaging.
@HolgerMBGL what was Morgengrauen?
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@HolgerMBGL what was Morgengrauen?
@jollysea ein MUD.
Im Prinzip die deutsche Version von Nightfall.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Tumblr, AO3, flash games, Wattpad, and Fandom (before it got enshittified)
I think I turned out fine
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what's "the old internet" for you?
At least 3 very active FIDO-Net years before I typed WWW for the 1st time.
Since then, is Mastodon the 1st Social-Something I survived mentally for longer than a year.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Colorful Background and GIFs in Mails, fancy fonts, overloaded yet simple Webpages, a few but iconic YouTube-Clips... Harmless and pretty Content.
Around 2008.🥰
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea I could have picked the tildes and slow internet, but chose MySpace and blogs. My actual preference is between those two, when the DSL I had was fast, but before the corporate take over
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea The first one, but just barely! When I first got Internet access, the WWW existed but it hadn’t really made it out of CERN yet, and it wasn’t anything I was aware of for about eight or nine more months.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Throwing the long cable to the phone outlet until mum wants to call someone
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what's "the old internet" for you?
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea I still remember chatting in bitnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET not the language model!)
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@joepie91 what would be an example for that?
