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[–] [email protected] 145 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The internet in it's heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.

I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of 'The big dummies guide to the internet' which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you'd find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you use this? I’ve been thinking that there has to an underground “internet” that mimics the old web. I was thinking that it would be BBS or something. I haven’t gone down any rabbit hole yet because lemmy has been scratching the itch alright.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No I used Gemini for a bit which is a newer protocol trying to deliver that old school way of internet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any good links you can recommend?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Here's a good overview on youtube

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting, I’ll look into Gemini.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would limit it to the "web" in it's heyday. The internet as a whole is more wild than ever. And there's a chance that the fediverse could be just as thrilling in 10 years as the web was 20 years ago (and could be swamped by corporate interests).

I don't think the internet is getting less thrilling and weird, if anything it's downright scary at this point, it's just really easy to enter a walled garden, never leave, and never find the interesting stuff.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

in its* heyday

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I've been keeping half an eye on it for a while, I should probably give it a go again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

in its* heyday