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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 miss the HTML chats. It was like a whole world to explore.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Specifically, alt.hacks, which concerned ways to simplify computing (as it was called) tasks - or everyday life tasks, too.
Especially the ob-hack.
There was a rule that to stay on topic, every post had to have a hack of some sort. An obligatory hack, or "ob-hack". So a fun sort of footnote to postings quickly evolved, as follows:
"...and that's how a bill becomes a law, and why so much of the Internet has already been privatized.
ob-hack: connect the turbo case button to the enable/disable pins on an option card to reclaim the IRQ or interrupt."
@Provider I miss the freedom of the old Internet. It truly was INTERnet as everything was connected to everything. Geoblocks, censorship, blacklists, etc were almost non-existent. It felt like an open global world where everyone was welcome and everyone was free to decide who they wanted to talk to.
I kept thinking "wow, this is what the future is like" and naively expected the offline world to eventually follow. I guess it was very naive.
"You the man now dog!"
@Provider It's the "Just call!' of the internet. Somehow, people think that having an extended interaction is peoples' preference.
I would kill for a transcript.