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by 486sx33
716 days ago
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I took a course at the library circa 1995 which showed off Netscape 1.1 I once owned and operated gsd.net which was Golden Shepard Dog but that lady didn’t pay the bill so we tried something different with it. Which didn’t really work out, but I thought was “cooler” than tucows.net at the time We did a lot with text based Unix browsers then, you could view source, run from a terminal, and never crash irc was always with BitchX until that dev stopped updating and many bugs were found No one really cares, you could crash a win95 box by just flooding it with udp packets, if you had a cable modem , network neighborhood truly displayed the whole neighborhood Now we fight over peering agreements and cloud flare protections. The internet became commercialized, but we always knew it would. Disney.com was by far the coolest website I ever saw in the 90s. We just didnt expect all the ads and pop ups. That being said I got $35 out of AllAdvantage before they tanked |
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Can still do this today. I have been steady text-only user since 1993.
Even easier today than in 1994 since so much of the www is delivered as JSON.
Graphical browsers are for online shopping and other consumerist behaviour.
Text-only is still the best for consuming information.