I know. I’ve been there. I remember when a friend showed me this “web thing”, basically “Gopher with hypertext”. That was the Arena browser, and we looked at TBLs original web site on his NeXT cube at CERN.
It had a lot of advantages. No spam, no advertising, a close-knit community. A lot of trust - if you needed a resource, you asked around, and there was the chance that you got access to something just so, for free. And if you did, you did not abuse it. About everyone was an expert, not an “expert”.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 months ago
um. a lot of that was not even html. im not sure op wants command line.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I know. I’ve been there. I remember when a friend showed me this “web thing”, basically “Gopher with hypertext”. That was the Arena browser, and we looked at TBLs original web site on his NeXT cube at CERN.
TheViking@nord.pub 3 months ago
Do you love the internet of that existed before Y2K ?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It had a lot of advantages. No spam, no advertising, a close-knit community. A lot of trust - if you needed a resource, you asked around, and there was the chance that you got access to something just so, for free. And if you did, you did not abuse it. About everyone was an expert, not an “expert”.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 months ago
oh man. I so loved next. it is why osx made me excited when it came out.