• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The public internet has been around about three times longer than what you’re calling “old”.

    Geocities, Angelfire, and dialup modems are the “old” internet.

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        I think bbs is considered pre-internet. Or maybe alternate and separate to the internet since you would dial directly to them. To my understanding internet didnt really have public access until the late 80’s/early 90s.

        Im 38 so i wasnt really there, just my understanding

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      1 year ago

      I used ftp, Archie, and gopher in college. I even had a paper book called “The Internet Yellow Pages” before search engines were a thing.

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          Not in the way it used to be though. I guess what I really miss is finding matches for counterstrike and stuff using IRC, it felt properly community based instead of designed to extract maximum money.