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Longtime webusers of lemmy, what’s your favorite memory from using the internet in the late '90s?What do you miss about the early web? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I really like the age of discovery description. Every web site was different and there was web design web sites where designers tried to impress eachother and really push what was possible to do.

There was hardly any corporations on the web. There was some ads in the beginning but ironically enough, Google built their empire on having a clean search page without ads, which made people flock to them.

See where we are now...

I still have the same mindset though. I build open source projects and use mostly open source technologies. I'm not interested in making money from any of that. Money is from work, not from passion.