• Franzia
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    847 months ago

    I really miss how tacky and cute the internet was. Everything is so pretty and cool now but like… Not in a good way, its just bland.

    • Troy
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      287 months ago

      In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)

      • Franzia
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        67 months ago

        Well… I was born after that. Even the internet I used had, well, this meme for example. ASCII art was common even when Twitch released in… 2010? The internet I used growing up in the late 2010s was still so inherited from whatever was stable enough to last through the 2000 dotcom bubble or release just after.

        • Troy
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          197 months ago

          No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.

          Source: I hosted one until 1997.

        • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]
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          177 months ago

          This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while

              • @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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                17 months ago

                Well that’s certainly not true in many practical senses.
                Was ARPANET global? That was a proto internet but certainly wasn’t ever intended to be global.
                The full scope of undersea cables and satellites were probably not considered in the early days of Internet Proper. Even today, there are all kinds of barriers to the internet truly being considered to be “global”, from companies semi-benignly tailoring their content, to China just having a completely separate internet. With licensing and local laws and firewalls and taxes and asynchronous infrastructure development and paywalls, I don’t think you can say that “global” is the property that sets the internet apart from BBSes.

      • Franzia
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        17 months ago

        But I’m not a web designer or website host 😔

          • Franzia
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            17 months ago

            GeoCities went away and came back? I dont think I ever saw a GeoCities before present day. Its just a place where everyone can have one website and they are usually… Boldly designed, and personal. Right? I get why we need that now, but do you know more?