but wait there’s these spaces
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Young woman helping an old woman as she reminisces about the old web, “The web used to be open and distributed! Not closed and concentrated in the hands of a few companies!” The young woman, “Sure grandma, now let’s get you to bed.”
Anybody else here remember GeoCities?
Yes my knees hurt, how did you know?
Edit; Or MUDs?
neocities.org and I used to telnet into muds on vax terminals way back when.
Probably absolute gibberish to Gen Z and even young millenials 😄
Sincerely, elder millenial who understood MOST of it
Let’s go play Water Deep!
Even had a web page there myself…
I feel your pain. Now where did I put my walking cane?
I only heard about those in the late-90s when it seemed to be dying off. Were they like a telnet text adventure?
Pretty much, yeah. If you think of old school text adventure games and bring them to their multiplayer conclusion, you’d get an MUD.
What kind of newfangled geegaw is that? Kind of like a Free-net?
I remember when it was common for ISPs to give you web hosting as a standard feature. I think my first ISP included 5MB, which was a lot considering most people were still on dial-up.