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but wait there's these spaces
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Young woman helping an old woman as she reminisces about the old web, "The web used to be open and distributed! Not closed and concentrated in the hands of a few companies!" The young woman, "Sure grandma, now let's get you to bed."
Anybody else here remember GeoCities?
Yes my knees hurt, how did you know?
Edit; Or MUDs?
neocities.org and I used to telnet into muds on vax terminals way back when.
Probably absolute gibberish to Gen Z and even young millenials 😄
Sincerely, elder millenial who understood MOST of it
Let's go play Water Deep!
Even had a web page there myself...
I feel your pain. Now where did I put my walking cane?
What kind of newfangled geegaw is that? Kind of like a Free-net?
I only heard about those in the late-90s when it seemed to be dying off. Were they like a telnet text adventure?
Pretty much, yeah. If you think of old school text adventure games and bring them to their multiplayer conclusion, you'd get an MUD.
I remember when it was common for ISPs to give you web hosting as a standard feature. I think my first ISP included 5MB, which was a lot considering most people were still on dial-up.