what's "the old internet" for you?
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea One of my first favourite cartoon porn sites was hosted on a tilde URL at the university of Uppsala.
Same time, IRC chats, forums, etc. Blogs soon after. Twitter was the beginning of the end, but we didn’t get it at the time. Thought only facebook was the enemy.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Depending on how you view it, both none of these and a combination of them, since the options on the poll only describe the English-speaking internet.
In my country we had our own social media, blogs, personal websites, slow-loading images and more. They started dying around the time sites such as Facebook started becoming popular (late 2000s).
MySpace wasn't very known and to this day I haven't seen an iPod in person. -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea
Something between BTX and flashing, moving text -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea@chaos.social Depends when you're asking me but overall the old internet is "cute but not something I want to return to" regardless of when it was.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
Tough choice. I voted 1, but in reality somewhere between 1 and 2 for me. There was a bit of WWW but mostly text, very few images. Interactions were mostly mailing lists and usenet. Downloads were ftp. Searches were archie and gopher.
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@jollysea Depending on how you view it, both none of these and a combination of them, since the options on the poll only describe the English-speaking internet.
In my country we had our own social media, blogs, personal websites, slow-loading images and more. They started dying around the time sites such as Facebook started becoming popular (late 2000s).
MySpace wasn't very known and to this day I haven't seen an iPod in person.@lethe thanks for your insight! you are right, it's very hard to pick descriptors of an era that are even somewhat universal.
Maybe I should have replaced one option with "local and early social media sites", seems like there was a time with a lot of these (at least I remember them from my time as a teenager)
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea
telnet, gopher, and all those other fun things. -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea <BLINK> Disco disco 🪩 </BLINK>
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Standing in line at the university computing centre until somebody leaves a workstation.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea Between 1 and 2. I remember the Well, and BBS.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea
DARPA/ARPANET & BBSs for all us old greybeards! -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea I think WWW existed, but we were on BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) that had email networks.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
IE5.5 & IE6 -
what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea while I was around for the “no www” version and used gopher a lot, still think of the “tildes” one as the old internet.
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what's "the old internet" for you?
@jollysea @grindcrank I came in when the O'Reilly book "The Whole Internet, User's Guide and Catalogue" just had its 2nd edition "now with WWW".
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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
