We had this thread a few days ago but what do you guys know about early internet history and culture? What brought us from usenet to facebook?
Early Internet History
Cooper Brown
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Austin Brown
[record scratch]
*freeze frame*
Zachary Parker
Japanese kids got to play netbattle Pokemon with their cellphones back in the late 90s. Americans were jelly as fuck. That is the true origin of the smartphone explosion.
Julian Scott
Normies flocking to the internet.
Thats all that changed, everything is marketed towards them in popular culture therefore the internet evolved in a cash machine for companies.
I first started using the internet when i was 12 in 2000, and let me tell you it was vastly different than it is today.
Nicholas Collins
what was different
Nathan Walker
Hi. I'm old. What do you, specifically, want to know?
Alexander Perez
I've been on the internet since like '98 but the only things I did there back in the day was chatting on IRC, online gaming and posting on forums. It was also a dialup and I was charged per minute of usage so I didn't spend as much time there as I do now.
Nathaniel Thomas
Web-rings, dude.
They could have taken off.
Charles Hernandez
Well yea same here.
I remember 2004 the most though because i found Veeky Forums that year and half life 2 had just come out
Colton Peterson
who were the first people outside of academia to start using the internet
what was the culture like?
what were the steps from being a weird hobby for weird guys to being a bit more normalized to being what it is today