what's "the old internet" for you?

@jollysea I think WWW existed, but we were on BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) that had email networks.

IE5.5 & IE6

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@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.

@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".

@jollysea @cubeofcheese My Uni had one computer in the library, where everyone went to check their email. Which read like a wifi passkey.

@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.

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Club Penguin and games on the LEGO website...?

@jollysea websites with funny flash games (Im not old enough to have experienced the time before)

@jollysea Modems, mailboxes, FIDOnet

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Dial up BBS with an acoustic coupler.

@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.)

@jollysea flash games, flipnote hetana, and image boards/forums for sharing flash games.

@jollysea using Morgengrauen instead of chat and mail for messaging.

@HolgerMBGL what was Morgengrauen?

@jollysea ein MUD.

Im Prinzip die deutsche Version von Nightfall.

@jollysea Tumblr, AO3, flash games, Wattpad, and Fandom (before it got enshittified)
I think I turned out fine

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At least 3 very active FIDO-Net years before I typed WWW for the 1st time.

Since then, is Mastodon the 1st Social-Something I survived mentally for longer than a year.

@jollysea Colorful Background and GIFs in Mails, fancy fonts, overloaded yet simple Webpages, a few but iconic YouTube-Clips... Harmless and pretty Content.

Around 2008.🥰

@jollysea I could have picked the tildes and slow internet, but chose MySpace and blogs. My actual preference is between those two, when the DSL I had was fast, but before the corporate take over

@jollysea The first one, but just barely! When I first got Internet access, the WWW existed but it hadn’t really made it out of CERN yet, and it wasn’t anything I was aware of for about eight or nine more months.