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[–] 14 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

I believe the internet was much smaller then. It existed, but most social hadn't really begun yet. I still only had dialup.

9/11 was 2001, Facebook was 2004. So definitely a different place.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Broadband was around. The signal to noise was much better. We had Usenet, IRC, and our own home pages.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    We had a lot of fourms back then. Myspace wouldn't happen until '03.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    I don't count forums the same as modern social media. The are social places of course, but much more tight-knit, much less algorithmically ratfucked. Even 2003 Myspace and 2004 FB were much better places than what they have metastasized into.

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