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Nowadays, for the average Internet user, content is on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube...

• bombcar 3y ago
  And back then, the "Internet" was AOL for a while - look at old ads, they often had their "aol keyword" in large type than their URL. But shortly afterwards there was an explosion of web content and forums that over time has been digested back into giant conglomerates - but for a short, beautiful time, if you wanted something you had to go find it yourself, on site-owner's terms.
  • jareklupinski 3y ago
    > "aol keyword" i haven't had a retro memory pull that strong in a while
    • bombcar 3y ago
      It's really weird for me, because it was such a huge thing at the time, and I was there and never used it - even though my friend's connection to the Internet was through his mom's AOL account; it was just something you did and then minimized.