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> There was too much internet for any person to keep up in 1993 before most of the world was on the internet. There were a couple of hundreds webpages in 1993.

> There was too much internet for any person to keep up in 1993 before most of the world was on the internet. There were a couple of hundreds webpages in 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_bef... Guessing 90% were "Hello world personal pet fansites", you had to know about 60 pages to know them all.

tom_ 4y ago
The internet then was, by and large, elsewhere. There was less of it, but still enough that you'd struggle to keep on top of all of it.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  Oh. Ye.
greenyoda 4y ago
> There were a couple of hundreds webpages in 1993. The internet existed before there were websites. For example, there were thousands of newsgroups[1] in 1993, and my ISP provided access to them. There were also mailing list servers, public FTP servers, etc. Even if you were only trying to keep up with technical topics, there was too much content available for any person to keep up with, even then. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup
- angry_octet 4y ago
  Even in the mid 90s there were more newsgroups than you could meaningfully keep track of, and thousands of messages a day on popular topics. Sadly message threading has only gotten worse since that time, and now conversations are incredibly shallow, commonly being restricted to a single reply. Twitter copied thread forking as re-tweets, and blocklists, but hashtags are too amorphous to be compared to newsgroups. Instead it's like having the latest message from every thread and newsgroup delivered in one thread.
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    I am really hopeful because I have seen some resurgence of classic forums. The meme-ification and Karma hoarding of e.g. Reddit does not seem to cater adults very much. And Facebook groups are still bad as a forum replacement and only had their strength when "everyone" used Facebook.

tom_ 4y ago

The internet then was, by and large, elsewhere. There was less of it, but still enough that you'd struggle to keep on top of all of it.

rightbyte 4y ago
Oh. Ye.

greenyoda 4y ago

> There were a couple of hundreds webpages in 1993. The internet existed before there were websites. For example, there were thousands of newsgroups[1] in 1993, and my ISP provided access to them. There were also mailing list servers, public FTP servers, etc. Even if you were only trying to keep up with technical topics, there was too much content available for any person to keep up with, even then. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup

angry_octet 4y ago
Even in the mid 90s there were more newsgroups than you could meaningfully keep track of, and thousands of messages a day on popular topics. Sadly message threading has only gotten worse since that time, and now conversations are incredibly shallow, commonly being restricted to a single reply. Twitter copied thread forking as re-tweets, and blocklists, but hashtags are too amorphous to be compared to newsgroups. Instead it's like having the latest message from every thread and newsgroup delivered in one thread.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  I am really hopeful because I have seen some resurgence of classic forums. The meme-ification and Karma hoarding of e.g. Reddit does not seem to cater adults very much. And Facebook groups are still bad as a forum replacement and only had their strength when "everyone" used Facebook.