Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? (lemmy.world)

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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I was there way before "wild west". Back what you could safely assume that anyone you met on the internet either had a degree or was currently on the way to get one.

But what I would miss mostly if transported back in that time is the complete absence of any search engine or centralized knowledge repository. Just imagine a web without google, bing, etc, and with no wikipedia site equivalent.

Our "search engine" was a hand-written notebook in the terminal room, where everyone noted down interesting internet services they had found, including the numerical IP address of the server in case the DNS was flawky.

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