@alltagshack nein, nur eine kleine Intervention für einen gewärmten Allerwertesten, ohne Hintergedanken

lasst euch heute mal kurz von einem Heizkörper den Popsch wärmen

@mcc how good is language! how good is written language! the wheel is nothing against the alphabet

@malwaretech oh no there is an evil spirit in my room, it communicated via the ouija board!

@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

@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!)

@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)."

@HolgerMBGL what was Morgengrauen?

@lethe thanks for your insight! you are right, it's very hard to pick descriptors of an era that are even somewhat universal.

Maybe I should have replaced one option with "local and early social media sites", seems like there was a time with a lot of these (at least I remember them from my time as a teenager)

@cubeofcheese universities offered their staff (sometimes students) webspace, and because your home directory is marked with a tilde, it was also in the URL. This text has some interesting reflections on it:
https://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/tilde.html

@quasiabsolut I heard the ICQ new message sound when reading this

@mborus I think it was already a bit cheaper then but one evening I forgot to log out and the next morning the post called my parents

@fox_dev_random yes, of course, but you can also still listen to podcasts on your ipod. the idea is that there was a time where you'd find a lot of websites were hosted on some kind of university server and you'd see a lot of tildes

@joepie91 what would be an example for that?

@Antimony @juni ja, mir geht's mehr um die ungefähre zeitliche einordnung als jetzt um die einzelnen technologien/dienste,

what's "the old internet" for you?