Personal home pages for individuals and families, they were always warm and friendly. Also, internet cafes, the first time I used the internet I went to one and looked up the X-Files homepage. I also remember chat rooms where you could use a telephone handset to talk to people.
Ask HN: What do you fondly recall about the early days of the Internet?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you fondly recall about the early days of the Internet?
#42Probably one of the forgotten things missing today is the personal home page. Even with a lowly ISP like AOL, in addition to web access you were encouraged to create a personal web page on their domain so you could upload things to share with the world. This is what you were paying them monthly for. Most people weren't actually using it since it's not all that easy to build a web page, then along came Myspace who mad…
personal web pages on http for retro lovers - we are trying to revive this. There are too few people willing to join the community. people often say online how cool it was, but don’t want to do anything to make it cool again http://web1.0hosting.net/
Thank you for posting this, it looks very interesting.
Re: Ask HN: What do you fondly recall about the early days of the Internet?
#43Icq web rings. Matts script archive and Winamp. Post g your resume on craigslist and have ten job offers the next day
oh my, I missed this man, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQid2jSU7Ww