Before big tech...

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[–]Kubrickian 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ah yes the 1.0 Internet of the mid to late 90's. There was a gold rush of website jobs everyone I knew was getting paid more money than they ever made before for putting up simple HTML pages. Netscape was the browser and Altavista was the search engine. Kids working nearby at AOL were millionares over night and cashing out their stocks to buy ranches and travel abroad in their early 20's. Then one day this Search tool called "google" appeared in places like the Washingtonpost.com and shortly after a huge recession shift for the worse.

[–]madcow-5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I liked the 2.0 internet.

Could pirate any software or digital entertainment with ease, internet culture truly felt underground, social media was in its infancy to the extent it existed, you could escape the internet because you weren't carrying it in your pocket everywhere you went, people didn't rely on it for all social interaction including dating.

[–]Kubrickian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you used to have to assemble all the numbered pieces of a file together with rar or something like that.