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>There is no - I repeat no wonderful fairy tale to tell about the years from 97-99. I graduated college in 95. IMO, 97-99 was about people trying to get rich
by DebtDeflation 5y ago
>There is no - I repeat no wonderful fairy tale to tell about the years from 97-99.
I graduated college in 95. IMO, 97-99 was about people trying to get rich off of bullshit. The really fairy tale years were the pre-Netscape Navigator (late 94) era when Usenet and IRC ruled the roost.
- ghaff 5y agoI guess it depends what you mean by fairy tale years. In the grand scheme of things, "no one" even had access to the Internet pre-Web.
- noduerme 5y agoThat's not true. I mean, I was gophering and FTP'ing and pirating all kinds of good stuff on a 2400 baud modem in 1992. By contrast, the guys I worked for in 1998 could barely use a computer. But boy could they sling bullshit to other people who couldn't use computers.
- ghaff 5y agoHence the quotes around "no one." As you suggest, obviously some people had access to the pre-Web Internet--I communicated over the Internet as early as about 1978--but it was a small slice of the population.