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I cringed a bit further when I read '1993 [...] It was before the World Wide Web existed'.

• flomo 7y ago
  Old tyme internet user here who doesn't get the slightest bit of cringe out of these statements. Reddit is the closest analogy to usenet which relates to later adopters. And perhaps the WWW technically existed in 1993, it was really 1994 when it burst onto the scene. (Internet was originally non-commercial but there were terminal services where you could email or usenet. Outside of universities and tech corps, ISPs where you could get a personal IP connection weren't much of a thing prior to 1994. There was also pretty much zero discussion on the web in the twentieth century.)