Early Internet Nostalgia
Comments reminisce about the early days of the internet (especially the 90s and before), highlighting how it was less commercial, ad-free, and focused on information exchange compared to today.
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ofc the internet was different back then.
the Internet was different back then
You could say that about the internet 30 years ago...
This. Early days of Internet were exactly like this.
That point would be late 90s to early 2000s. We've already got internet, it wasn't full of ads and was used to actually exchange information. Should have just made it faster and more accessible and stopped there
What? We had the internet back then...
To be fair, Internet in the 90s was the same: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/08/2...
think about how much worse it was before the internet
I was on the Internet before it was cool.
Looong time ago the internet wasn’t a very commercial entity :( and a phone cable was enough.