the eternal september and its consequences
the eternal september and its consequences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
One of my favorite little bits of internet history!
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Hehe, every new tech community goes through that, when it stops being mostly autistic people and becomes mainstream. We pave the way to make sure it's safe. Then go hide in our little place of that community and wait for "the next thing" that isn't good enough for normal people yet.
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i might have been part of the problem back then 😄, i was in school 1994 when i got my first email and Internet interactions
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That's when I got my job as a assistant sysadmin and only-tier tech support of a residential ISP. I swear, winsock is the source of the whole "Have you tried turning it off..?" trope.
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I fondly remember the time on the net before that.
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V-Tec just kicked in, yo!
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You can never go back, but we sure made some great memories.
https://16colo.rs/ (ANSI/ASCII/text art gallery/archive)
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That's a cat inside KITT? vroom vroom indeed
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this would make a rad banner
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