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Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by soulifix to c/asklemmy

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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I was lucky enough to get a dedicated phone line for dialup.

Although even at max download speeds, I think the fastest I ever saw on dialup was around 4.5kbps because our phone signal was so low quality haha.

Damn I'm getting nostalgic for the old internet, pre 2008 when the average person wasn't online. The internet had it's trolls, but it was a far more civil place compared to the modern era of vitriol and hate prevalent in many online communities.

Remember the IRC and downloading files using automated chat rooms with simple queues to request files from hosts. It's crazy to know they're still in existence and still pretty active.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

lol... "old internet" "2008" ... wut?