what's "the old internet" for you?
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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.
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@n_dimension wow you have your old bills on microfiche? please tell me more about that! (unironically, I only know microfiche from movies and TV!)
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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
@Lapizistik tbh I'm loving all the replies, people telling me about times I only know from stories (I knew that gopher existed but never used it, I experienced telnet once!) to forums, early social media etc. It's all fascinating
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@Lapizistik tbh I'm loving all the replies, people telling me about times I only know from stories (I knew that gopher existed but never used it, I experienced telnet once!) to forums, early social media etc. It's all fascinating
@jollysea
Tales from these times are great, and one thing is: it is tales from a time where people were trying to figure out how to do things best without any direct commercial interests – there simply was no one online trying to sell something. -
@jollysea rotten dot com, phpBB, Kazaa/eMule, Lord of the Weed and old messengers like ICQ (*insert new message sound here*) and MSN
@quasiabsolut @jollysea same! Did you click 2 or 3?
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Was? It still is (and I know people still actively playing – and their daughter also started to play).
I never started playing a mud when I was a student as I saw too many dropping out of university without graduating because they spent all there time in the mud (but I was on irc and played (and still play) nethack)
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@jollysea Mainly searching results were not that filtered. I explored content from all countries of the world and sometimes had a hard time translating. But nowadays I get what I know from the same two or three countries.
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@jollysea the old internet is when DNS was this newfangled thing that had just been introduced to replace the host files.
