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by dadrian
51 days ago
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The Internet in 1999 was not good at all. Browsers barely worked, computers crashed constantly, the ability to actually search for useful things was limited, and many things we take for granted as being online (news, people, documentation) were not. The mid-to-late 2000s are perhaps closer to what the author is looking for. |
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They worked pretty well actually, AFAICR. Internationalation was a bit sketchy in some cases though.
> computers crashed constantly
You did need to be careful with Windows 98, for sure, but it wasn't that bad. Also, if you put in some elbow grease you could install Linux, which didn't crash (but had limited support for peripherals and for the latest graphics cards, and almost no games).
> the ability to actually search for useful things was limited
It is arguably more limited now than it was then, since commercial search engines did not manipulate the results as much.