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This is awesome! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by crazyminner@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Can we all stop the in-fighting for a minute and realise how awesome the platform we are on is?

We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.

You can make your own home on the web and have your own niche community, not owned by any corporation, while still being connected to the wider internet.

This feels like something out of a sci-fi movie.

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[-] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In the 1980s, I wanted a Unix box with dialup uucp so that I had access to Usenet. Was too poor for that.

In the 1990s I had a telnet dialup to a Sun box with email (mailing lists), gopher, ftp and Usenet. Then, my own Linux machine on dialup.

In the 2000s, hardware servers on the Internet and broadband. Lots of space to experiment.

Things really haven't changed that much since.

this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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