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[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Define old internet, do you mean forums, usenet, IRC. What exactly is the old internet?

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Old internet is where different people had different websites, and they'd link together with web-rings. People would explore and discover and share. The old internet was not dominated by mega-corps. There were no facebook accounts and no google accounts. It was just people sharing their ideas and interests - without trying to turn everything into a side-hustle, or data-harvest or anything like that.

You could find that in darknets, corps don't do darknets.