what's "the old internet" for you?

@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.

@jollysea Throwing the long cable to the phone outlet until mum wants to call someone

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@O 134

@jollysea I still remember chatting in bitnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET not the language model!)

@jollysea @joepie91 ii2 ! You could (gasp) upload photos !

@jollysea @patterfloof I could really gopher this poll...

@jollysea personal websites everywhere, all individually handmade

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The old Internet¹ is when people knew there are other protocols than HTTP(S), when the Internet was one way to access Usenet, when software was provided by anonymous ftp, …

And then Angela Bennett (aka Sandra Bullock) ordered the first pizza online…

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¹the Internet is a network of computers based on IP that contains the machine internet.net. This definition is from the IPv4 only times. We still have problems with IPv6.