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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?
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I remember:
Heck, I even remember how I found out about the internet in the first place. I was reading the encyclopedia (I was following knowledge rabbit holes even before Wikipedia!) and got to the entry about it. Absolutely blew my little mind and I started begging my dad to show it to me since we had a computer.
[types out an emote describing how my MUD character is laughing]
FYI: it was a MUD. The number of connections it allowed at once was the big selling factor, I think. To this day, it's the only MUD I ever played with a subscription fee. On top of the ISP and dial-up phone charges. 😵💫
These days, I sometimes hop onto Materia Magicka. It's a more modern MUD, but it's been around since I was in high school and it's pretty fun.
They had to make an announcement at my elementary to stop this since it became a trend to try your first name .com and someone's ended up being porn.
Yeah that happened to me, but I just wanted to play Supermunchers…
I still really miss the early days of IRC