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”.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Do you love the internet of that existed before Y2K ?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
oh man. I so loved next. it is why osx made me excited when it came out.