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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had a Popular Science magazine that included the 50 coolest websites you should visit. That was mine. I still get hit with so much nostalgia about it. They were legit so cool that they still put most websites I see nowadays to shame.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    …well? You can’t just not share the sites?

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I left it in the terminal room when I left university decades ago. Maybe it is still there.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I found it!

      books.google.com/books?id=5Jr8k-Drkh4C&pg=PA5&dq=…

      Page 51

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s really cool. Many of them are still there–some of them unchanged.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That one text file what was a copy paste of all the neat things we’d read on the internet and wanted to save.

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• gens@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was there porn ?

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of course. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica - not an internet address in case you wonder, but a NNTP group. Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

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    • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

      We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yea, but most of them were rather harmless, especially if you contacted the network administrator of the site he came from.

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      • mystik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We had killfiles back then. And clients that sorted/threaded conversations the way we wanted. And upstream operators that could often physically visit the offenders to tell them to knock if off. Those were the days …

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Online porn existed before internet

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do we count Bulletin Boards as pre Internet?

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      • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Most bulletin boards like fidonet existed in parallel with the internet, and even used internet bridges to transfer mail and files across long distances where a dialup connection could not be used.

        NNTP actally was quite network agnostic, the messages did not care about the means of transport. I actually handled a NNTP link back then via floppy disk.

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