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What was the Internet like in its early days / peak? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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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