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This article is looking at the older Internet from one point of view. There was much more to it than the Web. There were thriving communities on Usenet and IRC. People had personal home pages instead of MySpace/Facebook/Bebo/Whatever accounts. You hosted your own scanned photos.
There were thriving Usenet and IRC communities (I miss Usenet), but you had those things on BBS's too; it wasn't really a breakthrough.
I was on the internet in 89 and found tons of things to do: Irc, Usenet, Mucks, Muds, Gopher, Ftp. By 1996 we were complaining about the Aol users ruining the internet.
In 89 you complained once every September about the students ruining the Internet; not a major change.
I remember at a young age telling my step dad that he should be buying domain names of big companies and sitting on them. he laughed at me. :( I'm the sort of kid who was buying candy in bulk and reselling it at school for a hefty markup. I'm pissed I missed out on all the easy money in web 1.0. If only I was born 10 years earlier.
This article is looking at the older Internet from one point of view. There was much more to it than the Web. There were thriving communities on Usenet and IRC. People had personal home pages instead of MySpace/Facebook/Bebo/Whatever accounts. You hosted your own scanned photos.
There were thriving Usenet and IRC communities (I miss Usenet), but you had those things on BBS's too; it wasn't really a breakthrough.
I remember at a young age telling my step dad that he should be buying domain names of big companies and sitting on them. he laughed at me. :( I'm the sort of kid who was buying candy in bulk and reselling it at school for a hefty markup. I'm pissed I missed out on all the easy money in web 1.0. If only I was born 10 years earlier.
Domain Squatting is illegal and has been for about 10 years.
Articles like these makes me want to strangle the author. No, Sir, my Indy with Ethernet and Mosaic/Netscape was quite up to the task. In fact, my telnet to the Sun and ftp and gopher pre-web was already immensely useful. If it sucked for you 1996, maybe it was just you.
I remember at a young age telling my step dad that he should be buying domain names of big companies and sitting on them. he laughed at me. :( I'm the sort of kid who was buying candy in bulk and reselling it at school for a hefty markup. I'm pissed I missed out on all the easy money in web 1.0. If only I was born 10 years earlier.
Domain Squatting is illegal and has been for about 10 years.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, Usenet is still out there. There are even still communities, although it's mostly just used for binaries now.
Usenet is a crappy P2P file sharing system now, as pretty much everyone who ran a Freenix-rated Usenet server predicted. It was something much cooler than that before the file sharing douchebags wrecked it.