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klu9@piefed.social to retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 11 hours ago

What the Internet Was Like in 1998

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What the Internet Was Like in 1998

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klu9@piefed.social to retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 11 hours ago
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It's 1998, the middle of the dot-com boom. Portals are advertising on TV, web developers are fighting browser companies, Microsoft and Amazon are gaining power, and Netscape is going open source.

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    We had forums with specialists then. Now we have “social media” with trolls and imbeciles.

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      Kids these days are always playing on my lawn.

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        It’s only July but we’re already complaining about Eternal September.

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          I like September it’s warm and the nights are cool.

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            And kids are in school instead of screaming under my window.

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            Like chillwave used to be, before the slop brigade. wistful

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