• voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    See, people around Mastodon keep saying “everybody is nice, like in the early Internet”, and my memory of the Internet is full of drive-by porn and gore, weird political takes, illegible websites and malware.

    People looking at the past through rose-colored glasses? You don’t say.

    Yeah, the early Web was ass. No Wikipedia, no Internet Archive…oh, and it took forever to download anything.

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      1 year ago

      Fuuuck you just made me remember the first time I encountered Wikipedia. It was a recommendation from a teacher in my first class of middle school to read some articles about the topic before writing an assignment. It was a literary life changing moment for me. All this knowledge… for free?

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      1 year ago

      Not that there was anything much to download. But there was a good FTP site FAQ floating around. (for those that remember what the original FAQ files were)