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Old school internet

My family moved back to Japan in ‘97 🫣 and the military base commander held a town hall. The subject? The base’s residents having American cable or the internet. We mostly watched old ‘70s and ‘80s U.S. tv shows while occasionally receiving current U.S. shows a season or two behind. Overall, having internet won. I was excited since it meant freedom outside our bubble and better educational experiences. I remember the day my dad finished building our new internet accessible computer–my sister and I fought over who could use it first. I won. First sites I hit up and kept coming back to: Hotmail.com (had to set up an email account to email my friends) MSN.com HotBot Excite Ask Jeeves Lycos (was mainly used to search for music videos) AOL/AIM BBS (early forums) about various subcultures A lot of times I randomly ended up on some Geocities site dedicated to whatever obsession the site owner had. Some of them were pretty cute and cool, while others were questionable (the internet wasn’t censored back then). And I couldn’t read half of them due to it being in a different language and/or because the site was so badly designed. But I didn’t care–I had the whole world at my fingertips.

@edina_x_patsy

Apr 10, 2024

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Using the internet for the first time

My mom's friend was an early adopter, mid-90s maybe? I was in 4th grade, and I was obsessed with South Park by proxy (my parents never let me watch it, but since a bunch of other classmates did, I caught on to all the catchphrases and learned how to draw all the characters.) Anyway, I found the South Park website and vaguely remember there being a bunch of mini games in it that I would not stop playing. I basically had to be pried away from the thing.

@theclack

Oct 14, 2024

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retro html tags like <blink> and <marquee>

They made the World Wide Web come alive

@baba_skillet

Jan 25, 2024

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Disrupting anxiety with acts of service

Feeling anxious do something nice for someone else and you will Be cured

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Silently admiring strangers

Thinking someone is beautiful, or you love that they are reading a book, or the way they are enjoying their sandwich is enviable. The more I do it, the more positive I feel about humanity , and it feels good.

@britty

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A little friction builds desire . make me work for it ! I can swipe up and down and enter a typo filled search term into iOS spotlight it’s good for me

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