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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe I'm just older and have been on the internet longer, but it doesn't feel as much like the "early days" as it does feel like when I first came to Reddit after Digg died (without ever having been a Digg user; it just was a coincidence that I discovered Reddit because of the hubbub).

I've been online since 1990 tho. I was literally there for the beginning of the "World Wide Web." The true Wild West of the internet.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back before music piracy was a thing; because who's going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you'd have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember spending all day downloading files from a Quake server because I happened upon a server running Team Fortress and had to download the mod. On a 28.8k dial-up modem. It was like 500MB or something.

Then of course when I get into the game, it's on ctf_crosstheborder and was the most confusing thing I had ever encountered.

[-] PerCarita@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The days of overclocking your CPU so that your pr0n would load faster TT__TT and we used emojis like that. Those were dark days, but people learned a lot about CPU cooling.

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