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by wlll
2259 days ago
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> It reminds me distantly of an earlier time when just the web was sort of owned ... by the web folk. I remember those times, I miss them. I had a modem back in the late 1990s and used to buy .net magazine (in the UK, back before there was a framework of the same name) on my way home from school and it had the number of people estimated to be on the Internet printed on the spine. It all seemed too good to be true, we were worried it might get shut down by governments. There was the TV program "the net" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)) that used to give you an "info dump" at the end that you were meant to record on your VCR and play back frame by frame. In Jan 2000 I got my first proper job at a web hosting company and used to read Wired magazine before it became (as far as I recall) fascinated by the stock market. I miss the optimism and simplicity of those times. |
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It seems like every generation (minus those who came of age in WWI/II) think this is true for them.
Is it really true, or are we just all reflecting back to when we were younger and the world was simpler because we understood less.