what's "the old internet" for you?
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@HolgerMBGL what was Morgengrauen?
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@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.
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@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.🥰
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@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
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@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.
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@jollysea Throwing the long cable to the phone outlet until mum wants to call someone
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@jollysea I still remember chatting in bitnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET not the language model!)
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@jollysea @patterfloof I could really gopher this poll...
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@jollysea personal websites everywhere, all individually handmade
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@jollysea
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. -
@jollysea
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.@Lapizistik seems like shortly after option 1.
WWW stands for "world wide web" and describes an "information system that enables content sharing over the Internet using a graphical user interface. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)."
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@Lapizistik seems like shortly after option 1.
WWW stands for "world wide web" and describes an "information system that enables content sharing over the Internet using a graphical user interface. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)."
I know the web from before Tim Berners-Lee created http (remember gopher?
But even when http was there for some years different services still used different hand-crafted protocols – until corporate firewalls started blocking everything besides http(s) and maybe ssh (and sometimes imap(s)) and suddenly all kinds of services were tunneled over https (ok, and REST was invented).
But I am kinda off from your question as you asked from an end user perspective (where most people won't even know about what's going on under the hood). So sorry for derailing
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@jollysea@chaos.social You could find stuff on it.
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My first #Internet access was via Goverent gateway.
You had to be sub-contracting at the least.
It was expensive (Like 20c per minute?)I could check my bills, but they are on a MICROFISHE!!!!
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@jollysea that'd be, in order:
- Arpanet/Early Internet
- Web 1.0
- Early Web 2.0
- Late Web 2.0
Old Internet is whatever that came before the current one and you remember was better, I guess
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@jollysea Web site were usable w/o adblocker. No tracking.
and at least: No Nazis.
