sorry for being nostalgia baited but it was kind of nice where the internet was a single, solitary, unmoving place instead of a terror that extends to everywhere. you went to this specific spot to go to the internet. when you left the spot, you left the internet. it was a place
sorry for being nostalgia baited but it was kind of nice where the internet was a single, solitary, unmoving place instead of a terror that extends to everywhere. you went to this specific spot to go to the internet. when you left the spot, you left the internet. it was a place
#1 reply i'm getting to this tweet is some form of 'you can still do this' and i would just like to say: no, you can't. not in a meaningful way. toothpaste is out of the tube. it'll still surround you
@cal50 Time limited too - my first ISP charged $1.25 per hour.
@cal50 At some point we were logged off for the last time
in '94 we would walk by the row of terminals at university, the connection to the outside world all within that room. Lynx was the web browser if I remember correctly and PINE was the e-mail. That's where the internet was, if you didn't call in from a land line yourself. The past has a way of finding itself back in ways... I built a BBS this year, never thought I would do that again.
@cal50 @oldenoughtosay I managed to hold out against having personal internet access until 2016, refusing to connect any of my devices and only using the internet when at work (which was most of the time, tbf)
@cal50 visiting relatives abroad and going to an internet cafe so you could go to the internet