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Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[โ€“] Snowman44@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Did anyone else play digimon quest to save the net? That was one of the first online games I played on dial up.

[โ€“] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I loved all the creative free geocities and angelfire websites other people made for their cyberpets and fandoms.

[โ€“] mrnomoniker@lemmy.studio 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All the side characters on space ghost coast to coast had their own personal geocities style pages, I loved those.

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[โ€“] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I miss the HTML chats. It was like a whole world to explore.

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I remember when you could use a credit card generator (I actually learned whatever "algorithm" to create valid Visas as a party trick) and sign up for porn sites for free. Then you could download a crappy, compressed, ten second video if you waited for what seemed like forever.

Now that I think about it, that aspect of it was terrible. Thank goodness I'm alive now and didn't die before free HD porn was readily available on tap.

I do miss ICQ. And running BBS softwares.

[โ€“] AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I miss the dial-up sound. I can't really put into words why. It was like looking at a progress bar I guess.

I also miss hosting, just because it was the few things I could organize without having to like...organize I guess. Like the group just needed someone who could figure out how to get it to work.

Like the other guy said, written FAQs. Used to go onto gameFAQs all the time. I still go there sometimes, though it's only really useful for old games now.

I dunno where everyone is getting all this ad-less crap from. This was before adblock and even before a lot of spyware/malware protection was implemented. Modern ads still aren't as aggravating as getting Windows System Alert ads. And that stuff could be put onto your PC so easily....

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[โ€“] eccentriccog@mastodon.world 1 points 2 years ago

@Provider It's the "Just call!' of the internet. Somehow, people think that having an extended interaction is peoples' preference.

I would kill for a transcript.

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