Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    In the late 80s and early 90s

    Hold up there… HTLM wasn’t even invented until 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee who then made the first web server, web browser, and web page. It was another two or three years before browsing the web became more common. Before then, the internet was very basic, consisted of a few simple services, and was typically only accessible via universities and large corporations.

    Regular people often only had access to regional online services until national services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along.

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      6 months ago

      Yep, ARPAnet and some messaging boards pre-90’s. Slow as hell and limited content, that’s what I mean.

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        6 months ago

        The internet existed pre-web. Email, Usenet, IRC, Archie, etc. the real difference between ARPANET and the Internet was the introduction of TCP/IP packet handling and CIX which unified ISPs, but those both came pre-1991.