usenet! probably coloured with a lot of nostalgia, but it was a fun period of social networking
Ask HN: What do you fondly recall about the early days of the Internet?
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#12Icq web rings. Matts script archive and Winamp. Post g your resume on craigslist and have ten job offers the next day
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#13I met my wife on excite.com
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#14Line Noise from my dial-up USR Modem. Got knocked off the Internet because my mother wanted to use the phone. Having slow GIF downloads, before JPG and PNG.
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#15I'm not sure if it is exactly fondly, but access to Internet itself being treat made it lot more special. This was before family had ADSL. And there was still cost involved over going online. As such limited time made it more special.
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#16The sound of my modem connecting. :D
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#17A majority who (had decent displays and) read (inter alia, TFM) and wrote (having had real keyboards, even multiple paragraphs).
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#18Runescape
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#19Commander Keen and that crazy good Star Trek type battleship game I can never remember the name of.
Oh and firing up Navigator for the first time, after using Lynx.
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#20The lack of tracking, ads, saas, spa, etc.
When the internet and web were more about data than commerce, specifically surveillance capitalism.