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> It was a world of IRC, newsgroups, independent forums, personal websites, DC++ hubs, LAN parties etc. that was nearly totally unrelated to big companies and w
by andybak 4y ago
> It was a world of IRC, newsgroups, independent forums, personal websites, DC++ hubs, LAN parties etc. that was nearly totally unrelated to big companies and websites.
I think you just described one of the "sub periods" covered in the article. That phase happened but it wasn't dominant for the whole 15 year era.
- barnabee 4y agoIt wasn’t dominant but it was there. It was where I was. Not just for a sub period. It’s not so important what was dominant as that things that weren’t dominant had so much more of a place online. Not now in the adtech monoculture. Now I am less online, in that way. I don’t care for what became almost the only options. I’ll take the Wild West and scam prone “web3” over any amount of the “modern web”.