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Post by dd8601fn »

dasil003 wrote: post #33
tokai wrote: post #7

Am I getting old? 09-14 is not even close to the old web for me. The old web, to me, was back when people still published physical 'phone' books for websites.

I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could browse via lynx. Soon enough I got a PPP connection and then Mosaic/Netscape 1.0. However everything after javascript shipped (let alone CSS) is new new new. I'd almost go as far as s…

I’m vaguely remembering tilde username for our public html folders. Was that old Apache behavior?

And now I wonder if Apache is even still common. I spent so much time fiddling with apache configs.

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Post by clickety_clack »

Gormo wrote: post #43
bradley13 wrote: post #34

2009-2014? That's not the old web. Or I'm old. Take your pick.

Yeah, I'd say "old web" is early '90s up through about mid-2000s or so. Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, lots of standalone web forums, the early blogosphere, no social media, etc.

Pre-social media is probably the watermark. That’s what sucked all the content out of the web and into walled-garden platforms.

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

stillpointlab wrote: post #37
bradley13 wrote: post #34

2009-2014? That's not the old web. Or I'm old. Take your pick.

I've just gotten used to this at this point. My first time on the web was somewhere around 1995 I think, although my first time on the Internet was earlier (it was a proxy through some ancient BBS and I'm pretty sure it was using gopher). Even though I was just a kid back then, clearly that makes me old now.

Speaking of gopher, I'm low-key hoping that becomes the new place for all the non-bot traffic. Gopher felt magical back in the pre-www days.

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Post by mattkevan »

bradley13 wrote: post #34

2009-2014? That's not the old web. Or I'm old. Take your pick.

I’m old and it’s definitely not the old web. I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables.

2009-2014 is Web 2.0, back when people still thought social media was a good idea.

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Post by morganf »

I'd define it as the web until the time that Facebook truly took off and conquered the hearts and minds of so many (that was the first huge shot in the losing war of the old web). For example, a key part of the old web was what used to be called the "blogosphere", and the blog's height was those final years before FB (in the ascendancy) and the first years of the FB era (descendancy).

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Post by mrexroad »

bradley13 wrote: post #34

2009-2014? That's not the old web. Or I'm old. Take your pick.

‘09-‘14 is hilariously not the “old web.” With that said, those of us who participated in what I consider the “old web” are likely “old” now, so… shrug?

Two of my favorite sites [0][1] still online—Lurkers Guide to Babylon 5 and ex-astris-scientia—were started in ‘92 and ‘98 respectively.

Elegant content for a more civilized age.

[0] http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/

[1] https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/

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Post by pluc »

mattkevan wrote: post #65
bradley13 wrote: post #34

2009-2014? That's not the old web. Or I'm old. Take your pick.

I’m old and it’s definitely not the old web. I consider the old web to be when PNGs were sliced with Fireworks and laid out in tables. 2009-2014 is Web 2.0, back when people still thought social media was a good idea.

Old web was 88x31 buttons, 468x60 banners and tables

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Post by dyauspitr »

dasil003 wrote: post #33
tokai wrote: post #7

Am I getting old? 09-14 is not even close to the old web for me. The old web, to me, was back when people still published physical 'phone' books for websites.

I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could browse via lynx. Soon enough I got a PPP connection and then Mosaic/Netscape 1.0. However everything after javascript shipped (let alone CSS) is new new new. I'd almost go as far as s…

That’s the prehistoric web or maybe that’s BBSs…
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