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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I think this is definitely a case of rose colored glasses. I absolutely miss the way the internet was 25 years ago but I also do not miss randomly browsing and running across child pornography, I don't miss every kilobyte being measured to make sure I don't over use the network, I don't miss having to have multiple browsers just because a website was written for Netscape and not Explorer, or pop-up adds, viruses, and everything else you mentioned.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, the browser wars. As a designer during that time, having to learn 5 or more versions of css and JavaScript (which were sometimes competing and broke one another) before code pages were a thing was a nightmare.

And getting kicked off dial-up because someone decided to make a phone call when a large game download was at 97% complete after 5 hours before file caching was really a thing was infuriating.

[–] fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you sound like you can help me identify that weird square icon that saves my shit

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Do you mean these?

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They were part of a continuity ritual we performed before they installed cupholders in computers. You’d have to feed them to your pc one at a time when requested, often whilst entering an incantation in the command prompt. The meaning may have been lost to time, but we still use their icon to honour that ritual.

e: I can’t believe I found these so quickly. They were still on the same closet shelf where I put them in 2002.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Came across a bunch that have old backups of someone's data. Also some 5 1/4". Not sure if magnets or a hammer/scissors is the best security destruction 😆

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

If you’re concerned about privacy, fire nearly always works.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'll just leave these here...

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...raspberry pi 4B for scale 'cos i can't put by banana next to them, this ain't the 90s ya know?