[afavour]

> The early web was filled with experimentation. “What if chat rooms looked like comics?” That question sounds wonderfully unreasonable. And yet it was built, shipped, localized into 24 languages, and bundled with Windows 98.

This really resonated with me. Too much development work today feels like colouring in predefined boxes. Love to see some software that thought way out of the box and got institutional support.

[MBCook]

No kidding.

“After we get through round 3 what’s our exit strategy?”

“Exit strategy? It’s a tiki head on IRC. No one is paying us anything. Just enjoy it.”

[duxup]

Weird stuff and “what if we just tried it?”

[guestbest]

Modems were slow and a monthly cost that tied up people’s phone lines. This was another way to get people online. It wasn’t a given thing that we think of nowadays.