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Well, I guess it's up for interpretation, but for me "old internet" was when people ran their own email servers and their own domains. With that perspective, Gm
by capableweb 5y ago
Well, I guess it's up for interpretation, but for me "old internet" was when people ran their own email servers and their own domains. With that perspective, Gmail basically ruined being able to run your own email service as it's hard to get through the spam filter. Maybe it's better now but it used to be hard.
And not sure what Gmail contributed to open source, I can think of 0 projects/libraries/protocols/specifications that comes from Gmail and is used elsewhere widely. I guess that you can export to mbox via Google Takeout is something, but has very little to do with open source.
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- techrat 5y ago> but for me "old internet" was when people ran their own email servers and their own domains. For me 'old internet' was shitty ISP provided mailboxes that you lost once you moved away from your local dialup service. GMail is still a substantial improvement over that.
- rchaud 5y agoFor me, 'old internet' is when individuals hand-crafted sites on the internet for their hobbies and interests, and searching Google actually surfaced those sites. Now, no one makes a website except to try to make money somehow.