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Yes, but because it was completely pre-enshitification internet, with so much hope and promise to be something good for everyone.
It was kinda shit but it was shit because it was shit. It was improving every day and the sky was the limit.
Thats what I miss most about the past. The feeling of hope. Things would get better. Tomorrow was a bright place.
Yeah, it was a pretty fun time, before the feeling that everything had to be owned by a mega corporation that would wring every drop off cash out of it.
The continuous improvement is what I remember the most! At least how I remember the internet of old, it was like a constant stream of something new, from random funny links of random sites, to big new major projects surfacing. It was cool
Anyone, could throw up a website and get hits, and feel like the world gave a damn. Remember when your site visit counter was THE coolest part of your little site??
I was going to say something similar. Stuff ran slow because of slow processing not because of a shit load of overhead like now bad webui and stuff.
Internet? You are a baby! In my days we had to bring our floppies and the day we were able to run that banner making software my life changed.
I was responding to the days of the picture. I started with computers in high school the late 70s, and got my CS degree in 85. I spent a lot of time on the Internet before there was a worldwide web.
I distinctly remember the 90s internet. It was a paradise.
Yeah, man, I was so full of hope and so excited about the possibilities.
Pre Internet
Well, pre-WWW. There was internet, but you had to use telnet and remote into computers. Lots of bulletin board systems.