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Am I getting old? 09-14 is not even close to the old web for me. The old web, to me, was back when people still published physical 'phone' books for websites.

• acheron 2mo ago
  Seriously. 2009 is several years after everyone was already saying “web 2.0”! That is nowhere near the “old web”.
• rdmuser 2mo ago
  The old web doesn't necessarily mean the oldest web. 12-17 years ago was very much an older fairly different era of the web that's worth analyzing even if it's on the younger side of the old web. I can definitively sympathize with your reaction though, it doesn't feel like that era was that long ago yet.
• dasil003 2mo ago
  I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could browse via lynx. Soon enough I got a PPP connection and then Mosaic/Netscape 1.0. However everything after javascript shipped (let alone CSS) is new new new. I'd almost go as far as saying if it doesn't have a tilde in the URL it's not old web... almost...
  • dd8601fn 2mo ago
    I’m vaguely remembering tilde username for our public html folders. Was that old Apache behavior? And now I wonder if Apache is even still common. I spent so much time fiddling with apache configs.
    • inigyou 2mo ago
      It was at least an option with Apache. I read about it while setting up Apache on Windows XP and thought, who would possibly want that feature?
  • dyauspitr 2mo ago
    That’s the prehistoric web or maybe that’s BBSs…
    • dasil003 2mo ago
      Correct. Don't get me started on Fidonet, as a young computer nerd in the 80s before even dial-up internet was available, that was a portal to the global internet that my adolescent shit-posting self definitely didn't deserve.
• inigyou 2mo ago
  Someone called that the Cretaceous web. The old web was the era before social media sucked everything up (so 2009 wasn't it).