Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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    The dial up modem sounds. I don’t know why, but I genuinely miss them

    I also miss the reduced footprint of mega companies with their “we are the internet” monopolistic tendencies. They still wanted to be the entire internet, but they weren’t.

    I miss when Google’s motto was “Do no evil”.

    I miss when Usenet was for something more than downloading porn and pirated content

    I miss Geocities and everyone having their own shitty webpage

    I don’t miss IRC and netsplits, or images that would load line by line and rearrange your page as they did. I don’t miss JavaScript popup ads or websites that played looping wav files with no easy option to stop them.

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      I can still tell you how fast a modem is connecting by the sound. Though I was less accurate by the time it got to k56flex and v.90 56k speeds.

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        1 year ago

        That’s an impressive skill :)

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      I also miss the reduced footprint of mega companies with their “we are the internet” monopolistic tendencies. They still wanted to be the entire internet, but they weren’t.

      Especially this. The web was just different without all the bloated pages with dozens of trackers.