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Written by nixCraft 🐧 on 2025-01-20 at 18:21

What’s something you miss from the early days of the Internet?

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Descendants

Written by bazkie, bonkwave superstar on 2025-01-20 at 18:21

@nixCraft websites that didn't feel sluggish af

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Written by ssekret on 2025-01-20 at 18:32

@bazkie @nixCraft they were sluggish still, just because of another reason

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Written by bazkie, bonkwave superstar on 2025-01-20 at 18:37

@ssekret @nixCraft I was being a bit snarky/salty.. because it feels so dumb that like 30 years after me seeing the first website, shit is still slow af.. 10000x more cpu power, but the same amount of inefficiently programmed browsers & sites 😬 it hurts!

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Written by mattlqx on 2025-01-20 at 18:21

@nixCraft Decorum.

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Written by Bill the Lizard on 2025-01-20 at 18:22

@nixCraft Creating whole web sites in Notepad or vi.

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Written by Zergy :verified: :redpanda: on 2025-01-20 at 18:23

@nixCraft

Lack of JavaScript.

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Written by rick on 2025-01-20 at 18:23

@nixCraft small indie sites.. and not big corpo web bullshit :3

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Written by rick on 2025-01-20 at 18:24

@nixCraft fedi feels kinda like the first day of internet ^^

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Written by MeTheFl👀fNextDoor ... on 2025-01-20 at 18:42

@rick@a.n0id.space @nixCraft@mastodon.social And the sound of modems ...

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Written by Luca Sironi on 2025-01-20 at 18:22

@nixCraft finger and ytalk !

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Written by Jarno on 2025-01-20 at 18:22

@nixCraft fun

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Written by Kai 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-20 at 18:23

@nixCraft People.

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Written by Kyle Carpenter on 2025-01-20 at 18:25

@nixCraft

I miss that “going online” was a thing that you specifically did for a set amount of time or for a set purpose. It felt special, a little bit of an adventure each time instead an all consuming and ever present.

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Written by Emmanuel Revah on 2025-01-20 at 18:25

@nixCraft

Hope.

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Written by r0k on 2025-01-20 at 18:25

@nixCraft a reasonable signal to noise ratio

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Written by Benedikt on 2025-01-20 at 18:25

@nixCraft my age

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Written by John Maxwell on 2025-01-20 at 18:25

@nixCraft - webrings

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Written by CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: on 2025-01-20 at 18:26

@nixCraft The absence of Cloudflare.

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Written by Cat on 2025-01-20 at 18:28

@catsalad @nixCraft Who the hell is Cloud? And why is he flaring my internet!?

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Written by thekraken8him on 2025-01-20 at 20:00

@catsalad @nixCraft I’m out of the loop. What is wrong with Cloudflare? All I know is that they are a domain registrar and common public DNS.

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Written by Ariel on 2025-01-21 at 08:08

@jesse @catsalad @nixCraft AFAIK they've hosted and protected some pretty odious sites and people and tried to weasel out of responsibility by claiming they are pure infrastructure or similar

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Written by Hannah (always eepy) :blobcat_sleep: on 2025-01-20 at 18:26

@nixCraft@mastodon.social A functioning search engine.

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Written by Infrapink (he/his/him) on 2025-01-20 at 18:27

@nixCraft

I miss when websites were unique and interesting. Everything nowadays is slick, professional, and made from a common set of building blocks. It objectively looks better, but old GeoCities sites were gloriously hideous. Every one was handcrafted in HTML (no CSS yet!) at a time when there were no standards or conventions, so every single one was original.

If a modern website is a chair from IKEA, a 1990s website is a chair someone made in their spare time from fresh lumber.

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Written by Il Baro on 2025-01-20 at 18:27

@nixCraft nothing, really

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Written by .:\dGh/:. on 2025-01-20 at 18:27

@nixCraft Charging a couple of bucks more to ensure the sure worked on old Internet Explorer 5.5

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Written by marco_m_aus_f on 2025-01-20 at 18:28

@nixCraft Websites that one can visit without needing three Adblockers.

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Written by keith_smith:compass: on 2025-01-20 at 18:29

@nixCraft @catsalad no enshittification.

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Written by Lord Hurkle-Durkle :bc: on 2025-01-20 at 18:29

@nixCraft Being able to read a news article without shit flying in trying to prevent my reading of it.

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Written by Tim Chase on 2025-01-20 at 18:30

@nixCraft

Efficiency & accessibility.

You'd anonymously visit a site (whether web, #Gopher, #WAIS, FTP), get just the raw content and could read it perfectly fine over a 1200 baud dial-up modem on a 286 running DOS.

Nowadays you need a web-browser that consumes GB of RAM when idle, a multi-core CPU clocked at GHz speeds, connected via an always-on 5G or fiber connection, and you get umptybajillion privacy-invading adverts and auto-playing videos in the process distracting you from the content you're trying to obtain.

Is it prettier? Maybe

Is it better? Hardly

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Written by Ham Ninja (Chris Claborne) on 2025-01-20 at 18:30

@nixCraft You could actually reach the end of the Internet.

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Written by Louson on 2025-01-20 at 18:31

@nixCraft

Share: now you can't find stuff kindly shared. Instead you get only professional platforms

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Written by leberschnitzel :ha: on 2025-01-20 at 18:32

@nixCraft limewire

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Written by BeefGriller on 2025-01-20 at 18:33

@nixCraft nntp (slrn), irc, ftp, web pages that measured in the 1kb range, website catalogues (Yahoo! in its heyday), and static html pages.

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Written by Jordan Erickson on 2025-01-20 at 18:33

@nixCraft The early Internet was like an undiscovered Utopia before it hit the news headlines and everyone moved there.

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Written by Jade 🇵🇭🇨🇿🇭🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸 on 2025-01-20 at 18:33

@nixCraft finger, veronica, gopher, irc, usenet, fidonet, bbs

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Written by Daniel Quinn on 2025-01-20 at 18:36

@nixCraft Geocities.

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Written by Dendrobatus Azureus on 2025-01-20 at 18:36

@nixCraft

ftp.mail.decwrl.dec.com

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[#]C64 #Amiga #CMOS #programming #RetroComputing #ftpmail #decwrl #dec

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Written by Diego Pino on 2025-01-20 at 18:37

@nixCraft I miss the non-corporate Internet

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Written by Stevan on 2025-01-20 at 18:38

@nixCraft Trust

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Written by Jonathan on 2025-01-20 at 18:38

@nixCraft That modem sound

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Written by motofix on 2025-01-20 at 18:38

@nixCraft the noise of the modem, like knocking at the door of the outside world...

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Written by Gilbert Pilz on 2025-01-20 at 18:38

@nixCraft The sense that we were at the beginning of something wonderful that was going to transform our society for the better. Now we know that, like other transformative technologies before it, the Internet simply enabled the transfer of enormous quantities of wealth and power into the hands of a tiny group of psychopaths.

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Written by BunRab Voted for Harris on 2025-01-20 at 18:39

@nixCraft

Getting on dialup at 1 am to go look at the library catalog of rare music recordings at a university in Australia

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Written by Justine Smithies on 2025-01-20 at 18:39

Guest books and webrings

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Written by Health Is Wealth on 2025-01-20 at 18:39

@nixCraft Discovery of new tech. There are some really really cool things out there from invention of the Raspberry Pi to open source self hosted services like Home Assistant; from the latest version of your favourite Linux distro to cyber security applications etc, its all cool stuff but that feeling of 'discovery' of say the 'terminal' for the first time & how it could be used for things like Mutt email or IRC messaging to communicate with other 'across the world' cannot be replicated.

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Written by Tuchowski on 2025-01-20 at 18:40

@nixCraft Simplicity.

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Written by David JONES on 2025-01-20 at 18:41

@nixCraft pixels. Everything is too rounded, anti-aliased, and alpha blended now.

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Written by jnpn on 2025-01-20 at 18:42

@nixCraft not know what "reject cookies" meant

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Written by you're all idiots on 2025-01-20 at 18:42

@nixCraft surprise and adventure.

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Written by The Green Knight on 2025-01-20 at 18:42

@nixCraft courtesy.

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Written by Simone 🤖 & Bruno 🐕 on 2025-01-20 at 18:42

@nixCraft lack of social networks

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Written by tsykoduk :K_VERIFIED_PURPLE: on 2025-01-20 at 18:44

@nixCraft the wonder and awe. The feeling of being on the ground floor of something new and glorious that was going to change everything for everyone and make life better.

Then we ended up in a cyberpunk dystopia and while it did change everything for everyone, not like naive us thought or hoped.

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Written by Trantion on 2025-01-20 at 18:44

@nixCraft if the admin of a forum or bulletin board announced a new policy that everyone hated, all the users would just go somewhere else. Nobody thought anything of being a member of a handful of different sites, even about the same topics

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Written by Stefan on 2025-01-20 at 18:44

@nixCraft

Static HTML, and the sense of wonder. Now it's slow JS and dread.

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Written by adlerweb // BitBastelei on 2025-01-20 at 18:45

@nixCraft Open standards.

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Written by Viss on 2025-01-20 at 18:46

@nixCraft sportsmanship. people knowing stuff. folks helping eachother out. no ad industry. search engines that worked

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Written by schrotthaufen on 2025-01-20 at 18:55

@Viss Amen to that! @nixCraft

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Written by Leeloo on 2025-01-20 at 18:47

@nixCraft

Things that were intended to just work.

Not to track me, sell me anything or force shitty products down my throat.

Slackware and *BSD still try to uphold that ideal, but not much else.

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Written by Shawn Webb on 2025-01-20 at 18:47

@nixCraft Writing exploits was far easier. :-)

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Written by podfeet on 2025-01-20 at 18:48

@nixCraft I remember fondly the impact CUSeeMe had on me for the first time. After over an hour of fiddling, our buddy Ron and I had a video conversation in a postage-stamp sized greyscale window. It floored me because I could see what the future was going to be. I still feel a sense of wonder at what we can do today but nothing has hit me like that first time.

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