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[-] notabot@lemm.ee 145 points 8 months ago

The internet in it's heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.

I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of 'The big dummies guide to the internet' which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you'd find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.

[-] krash@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago
[-] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I've been keeping half an eye on it for a while, I should probably give it a go again.

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