• ExLisper@linux.community
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    11 months ago

    What the internet was like? Glorious! No stupid internet points, no followers, no tracking. Just random content. Good times…

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      11 months ago

      There was even a friendly purple ape named Bonzi Buddy who helped me surf the web. Couldn’t have something like that these days without spyware.

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      11 months ago

      You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.

      Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.

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      The ICQ, AOL and MSN chats were a big focus then. I can still hear those notifications too. It was a simpler time before psychology was brought into hijack our attention.

      They have done a excellent job of that with the latest generation of the web. It’s too bad we have lost much of the soul of the early web in the process…