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but wait there's these spaces

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Young woman helping an old woman as she reminisces about the old web, "The web used to be open and distributed! Not closed and concentrated in the hands of a few companies!" The young woman, "Sure grandma, now let's get you to bed."

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Anybody else here remember GeoCities?

Yes my knees hurt, how did you know?

Edit; Or MUDs?

[–] dipshit 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

neocities.org and I used to telnet into muds on vax terminals way back when.

[–] Viking_Hippie 5 points 1 year ago

I used to telnet into muds on vax terminals

Probably absolute gibberish to Gen Z and even young millenials 😄

Sincerely, elder millenial who understood MOST of it

[–] Speculater 2 points 1 year ago

Let's go play Water Deep!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Anybody else here remember GeoCities?

Even had a web page there myself...

Yes my knees hurt, how did you know?

I feel your pain. Now where did I put my walking cane?

[–] Rolando 5 points 1 year ago

Anybody else here remember GeoCities?

What kind of newfangled geegaw is that? Kind of like a Free-net?

[–] cashews_best_nut 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MUDs

I only heard about those in the late-90s when it seemed to be dying off. Were they like a telnet text adventure?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, yeah. If you think of old school text adventure games and bring them to their multiplayer conclusion, you'd get an MUD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember when it was common for ISPs to give you web hosting as a standard feature. I think my first ISP included 5MB, which was a lot considering most people were still on dial-up.