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