If you’ve got nothing nice to say, go the fuck away. I’m instantly blocking shitheads who want to poke fun at this for their own amusement. You lead sad little lives.

I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn’t fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn’t start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we’ve seen it all by this point.

We’ve seen the internet at it’s infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it’s usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash’s death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.

  • KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    When USRobotics first brought the 56k modem to market, they had an online contest to give away 100 of them. I won one. My ISP couldn’t even serve me 56k for about another year.

    Also, I miss silly fun winnable online contests and freebies.