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That's interesting to hear - I presume you're a little older than me I'm 40. I never met anyone else in person in the 90s who also used the internet (I grew up
by neom 1y ago
That's interesting to hear - I presume you're a little older than me I'm 40. I never met anyone else in person in the 90s who also used the internet (I grew up in rural uk) - everyone I knew who used the internet was on the internet, so for me it felt extremely undiscovered. FWIW I probably would never have gotten into the web in the way I did had it not been for NameCheap, having a domain and being able to show off on IRC was a lot of what drove me forward so personally I'm incredibly grateful of them. :)
- kragen 1y agoYeah, I was in favor of commercialization precisely because it was necessary for inclusion, but horrified by how much of that commercialization turned out. I started using it in 01992, at which point there were no ISPs anywhere within thousands of kilometers, so the only way to get access to the internet was to know people in person. NameZero was from 01999 evidently: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/namezero https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/namezero
- airstrike 1y agoThe leading zero that only applies to pre Y2K years sets my teeth on edge, so mission accomplished there
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- kragen 1y agoYou're a troll. Not everything in the universe is about you. Fuck off. Nobody should have to put up with people like you.
- airstrike 1y agoMy comment was totally in jest, but in any event, I can't think of a comment that is more against the HN guidelines than yours, and I've been here longer and more frequently than I'm willing to admit IRL https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kragen 1y agoOh, well, then, so was mine! Got you, ha ha!
- thomassmith65 1y agoI never met anyone else in person in the 90s who also used the internet Quite a few young people were on the internet in the early '90s, but almost entirely university students. I noticed quite a few from GB on Usenet. I remember perusing threads about English 'raves' since the rave phenomenon had barely reached America.
- kragen 1y agoYeah! It was amazing!
- Terretta 1y agoThe Internet was no longer early after it was front page news in mainstream magazines and more importantly, certainly not after Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer due to enough of a market for web publishing. When I joined a couple other guys working to build the southeast US's fastest growing ISP in early mid-90s, enough mom and pops, small businesses, and government agencies -- from backyard bird feeder webcams to US Navy recruiting -- were already staking their brochureware claims that it was worth marketing ourselves as offering FrontPage hosting. Windows 95 already took you online fine, while Windows 98SE bundled IE 5 which included the first version of XMLHttpRequest, giving birth to Ajax, enabling single page apps... and of course e-commerce in ad banners. By the time you are calling the early Internet, everyone called it Web 2.0, and most things are still that. Interestingly, I met tons of teens from rural UK in early 90s online, in MUDs and MOOs and especially Talkers such as Surfers: https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/Surfers https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/Surfers (Small world, several went on to found or lead top web 2.0 digital agencies.). As a sibling comment notes, most were at uni. By that time, the early 90s, it was then considered the end of the early Internet, beginning of mainstreaming. US law changed to allow making money online, Web 1.0 got its footing, and most of all, it was the start of Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September