• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’ve always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.

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      8 months ago

      BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif

      But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f’n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work. No commercial things even on there really. Before Amazon, Google, Myspace, etc.

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        8 months ago

        Life Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of porn images and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours!

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      8 months ago

      I remember being excited when people on the television or “irl” would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.

      Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!

      Now the internet is the mainstream culture.