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What kind of websites did people visit? Were people friendly?

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[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I think I got online around 1995 when I went to an internet cafe and paid my $4 an hour to see what the fuss was about. I think I bought a modem on the way home and I was hooked. Back then there wasn’t really even a search engine, you went to a portal page.. then came basic search like altavista, excite then google.

There were tonnes of communities and web chats if IRC wasn’t your thing, then there was the wave of dedicated chat apps like ICQ, MSN Messenger etc

I have many fond memories of the internet before it became a vehicle for commerce

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