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I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites...
Go back just a bit further to the days of AltaVista and I'm good. When it was still possible to store an entire website's markup and its images on one floppy disk. When people were running servers out of their basement and jumpstarting the early web.
Edit: The Fediverse certainly has that 1996 "wild west" feel to it though, I gotta say. We're just missing webrings and ugly-ass tiled backgrounds.
I did a bunch of school works when google didn't yet exist. It was a wild ride searching obscure sites and finding information in green webpages with lots of blinking texts and colors. Had to borrow the 5 cds encyclopaedia from a friend to get any historical information for some works. Wikipedia was barely starting and having info there for some things was amazing.
Damn days of downloading a random mp3 file 128kpbs quality of 3.4 MBs that took 1 or 2 days with computer turned on all night long.
I prefer mid 2000s internet
Each sub has a subscription counter. We need a permanent under construction community
Altavista existed atleast till the start of windows vista