• ExLisper@linux.community
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    1 year ago

    What the internet was like? Glorious! No stupid internet points, no followers, no tracking. Just random content. Good times…

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      1 year ago

      There was even a friendly purple ape named Bonzi Buddy who helped me surf the web. Couldn’t have something like that these days without spyware.

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      1 year ago

      The ICQ, AOL and MSN chats were a big focus then. I can still hear those notifications too. It was a simpler time before psychology was brought into hijack our attention.

      They have done a excellent job of that with the latest generation of the web. It’s too bad we have lost much of the soul of the early web in the process…