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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

Ah, the early days of the internet where every click on a link felt like you discovered something new and exciting. I remember making my own 'homepage' (with stats counter, most of the visits were my own), the dial-up modem's noises, browsing open ftp servers to find interesting warez and generally not worrying about viruses.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Lmao me too, a stats counter with like 13 visits

15 of those were me

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And then my co-student refreshed the page a 1000 times for laughs and the counter went up, because I didn't install a cookie with an IP check.

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