what's "the old internet" for you?
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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
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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.)
