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> 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
by 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 agoEven 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 agoI 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.