https://youtube.com/watch?v=iWssRVJgPqc&feature=share #ModernHistory #OldInternet

Really starting to enjoy #Mastodon
Kind of feels like the #oldinternet

@karawynn it's a smaller scale, but there was, until just this year, a place called renovate forum:

"Renovate Forum was established in 1999 and we've enjoyed watching it grow to become Australia's largest online renovation forum with more than 40,000 members. We've seen thousands of avid home renovators search for timely, practical and expert advice on their latest building or DIY projects, always ready to be welcomed by the community's army of trusted trade professionals eager to share their expertise and industry tips."

Some ads, no worries. I browsed to learn about different methods of old house construction in my area.

That quote is from CloudFlare/airtasker. Which bought and then shut down the site. Local diy resource goneski.

#enshitification #enshittification #enclosure #internet #InternetCulture #oldInternet #IAmNowOld

with reddit starting its death throes, the new way to find useful information on google is to include "forum" in your search terms #reddit #newInternet #oldInternet

(this has been a manualt crosspost)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0&feature=share
#TomScott #API #OldTwitter #OldInternet

https://www.twitch.tv/drfoxweyman

AND WE ARE LIVE! Watching... Youtube Poops...
As you can see I am a super serious streamer.

#SmallStreamersConnect #twitch #pngtuber #youtube #ytp #nostalgia #oldinternet

@maria #oldinternet https://htmlgarden.spencerchang.me

@atomicpoet Oh how I miss the old StumbleUpon. I lost hours there and met great people too. It's inheritor, Mix, never hit the same mark. #WebSurfing #StumbleUpon, #OldInternet

I was in a silly mood so I made a Neocities site: https://meowkittywow.neocities.org/
Please enjoy my Personal Website on the World Wide Web #neocities #oldinternet

I am diving a little bit into #oldinternet stories and it's sort of incredible how often I read sentences like this. There was a more decentralized internet, yet it was simply bought up and shut down.

A bit of history on the early #WorldWideWeb ideas of:

• #URL ( #UniformResourceLocation )

• #URN ( #UniformResourceName )

• #URC ( #UniformResourceCharacteristic )

https://www.w3.org/People/Fielding/draft-ietf-uri-roy-urn-urc-00.txt

~~~

#oldInternet #oldWeb
#mirror

#oldschool 88x31 button #webring gifs are so addicting. I like these little guys on sites.
Also made my own one.
#pixelart #neocities #geocities #oldinternet #90s

https://archive.org/details/introduction-to-the-internet boost to curse a younglings timeline #oldinternet #informationtechnology

What Yahoo! liked like in 1994.

( via https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/yahoo-1994 )

#oldInternet #oldWeb #retroComputing #vintageComputing

I am Grumpy Ginger Beard, or G. G. Beard. You probably know me under a different name, but I do have a ginger beard IRL. I'm all rainbows and sunshine, I swear. Excited to see that the Islands have an alternative to FB, which I can proudly say that I have boycotted since it was founded. (Ugh.) Been on Twitter since 2008 but stopped posting in 2017. (Claim to fame: I also started the @wsferries@twitter.com account back in 2008.) I'm an #oldinternet person. #orcas #intro

@midway @atomicpoet @torspedia

I've wondered if this is about nostalgia.

It might be.

But to me it seemed like a lot of the people on the #oldInternet seemed to have personalities that were similar to each other in certain ways (but also different from most people) —

⁃ high in open mindedness / creativity, and
⁃ high in straightforwardness.

It could be that this type of thing is attractive to people with this type of personality.

Memories from the 90s internet:
Mr. Bad Advice. He doled out his namesake to visitors to his website. Scrimshaw was listed as one of his hobbies. Do you remember this guy?
#oldinternet #90sinternet #www #oldwebsites #oldsites

@midway @atomicpoet @torspedia

I get the feeling that —

Many in the #Gemini community don't necessarily desire mass adoption.

(Maybe not against it. But it is not necessarily a goal.)

I also get that same feeling from many of the early users of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon too.

I suspect many people in both communities are looking for a certain type of (what I might call) #oldInternet culture.

Although not the first — #mailingLists were one of the early online social-networks on the #oldInternet .

Although not the first — #mailingLists were one of the early online social-networks on the #oldInternet .