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What was the Internet like in its early days / peak? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 45 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

it was great. Before faecesbook/shitter/shittok, everyone had their own little space on the net. People would dedicate their pages to whatever interested them. You had to ACTIVELY find shit. I truly miss the old internet. You'd download a film over a week on dialup, and it'd be scat porn (true story haha)! Man, those were the days.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Small Web is still a thing, one still needs to search for it. Maybe just a little deeper than they used to ;)

    The hardest obstacle to finding it, imvho, is that most people can't be bothered to begin searching for it: FB, X and all the other corporate turds are way too simple to use and way too shiny, why bother with anything else, right? Which is sad.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    true. the fediverse is something akin to a little corner of the web. there are instances dedicated to almost anything. there's an instance for nearly anything you can think of. that's why i like the fediverse. but yeah, faecesbook and shittok ruined everything. same with daddy googs.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My favorite way to surf real pages is to go to https://wiby.me/ and click on 'surprise me...'

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    And newsgroups were chock full of individual honest content(This was pre-trolls. The worst was a flame-war or two).

    Webrings were like a pass-the-parcel where one website would have a link on to the next, and so on.

    The HardOCP and the first years of ARSTechnica were great for overclocking info. Following the build guide for a Damage-Box, to get a Celeron 300A running at 450MHz was exceptional.

    Slashdot was an early forum share-point to percolate up decent tech news.

    ICQ ruled the IM scene.

    Bonzi-Buddy was an early enshitification example, hot garbage, clippy-esque nonsense.

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