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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 an
by 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 agoI’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 agoIt 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 agoThat’s the prehistoric web or maybe that’s BBSs…
- dasil003 2mo agoCorrect. 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.