90's Internet/WWW

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>>59941596
Slow, in terms of connection speed and also the updating of the sites themselves.

But to focus on these things is to miss the point entirely.

Much like with the increase in power of our computers isn't felt because of the massive amounts of bloat, so to is the internet not as fast as it should be because of the same reason.

>>59941596

Everyone used screen names. We all were taught "Do not EVER give ANY website your personal information", so seeing this whole social media wave come in was pretty surreal

Sites were further apart and less advertised. There was no "Everyone is on $site", we just had really long Favorites lists since you couldn't really subscribe or follow anything until RSS came along

Pages were typically static blog-style content with the occasional Flash animation.

>>59941596
Web rings and manual web indexes.
Lots of self-hosted blogs and research.

Mind you, my only experience was midway through it, it was apparently much different even 5~ years before I had it.

>>59941723
I think the dwindling size of my Favourites has been a good representation of the change that the internet has gone through.

It's almost as if the "web" paradigm has been replaced by that of a bicycle wheel: where all paths lead to the centre.

Also, articles and journal entries were still written in the more literate and long-form manner of print media rather than the short snap of a series of Tweets that passes for a report today. But that's just the declining level of writing across the board.

https://archive.org/web/

>the 4chan of the 90's
BBSes. Pretty similar, now that I think about it.