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It's the standard antithesis of instant gratification culture. We had to actually wait for things to happen, to download, to render, to dial. Finding something
by INTPenis 2y ago
It's the standard antithesis of instant gratification culture. We had to actually wait for things to happen, to download, to render, to dial.
Finding something online was a journey and it's often the journey that teaches you more than the destination.
- flyinghamster 2y agoEven when you had a networked forum like FidoNet's Echomail (or Usenet, for that matter), it would take time for messages to propagate through the network - and they could sometimes fail to be delivered.
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- asjo 2y agoPaging sysop... paging sysop... paging sysop... :-)