Actually, when I moved to a new town, I found a BBS that was a bigger deal than those hobby ones my friends were running. It had lots of people on it at a time and hosted a popular MUD, for example.
Then one day I was logging in and saw 2 options: bbs and ppp. What the heck is ppp? Well I got on the bbs and everyone was going nuts. It’s the Internet man! They became the first isp in town and they’re actually still around.
Funny thing is though, when I first got on I didn’t think much of it? The web was still in its infancy and you kind of had to know your way around. Eventually, I found my way to some ftp server (umich?) with a giant amount of warez and then I was in heaven!
Haha, yeah, the privilege of being on one of the big name’s ftps was gold. Sadly I lost all those contacts. Fairlight, razor and what they all were name…
And the time where you had to search search-engines was also cool. Then google came and changed it all. They rocked!..then they removed “don’t be evil!” As slogan and shit went downhill into hell 😒
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Actually, when I moved to a new town, I found a BBS that was a bigger deal than those hobby ones my friends were running. It had lots of people on it at a time and hosted a popular MUD, for example.
Then one day I was logging in and saw 2 options: bbs and ppp. What the heck is ppp? Well I got on the bbs and everyone was going nuts. It’s the Internet man! They became the first isp in town and they’re actually still around.
Funny thing is though, when I first got on I didn’t think much of it? The web was still in its infancy and you kind of had to know your way around. Eventually, I found my way to some ftp server (umich?) with a giant amount of warez and then I was in heaven!
Haha, yeah, the privilege of being on one of the big name’s ftps was gold. Sadly I lost all those contacts. Fairlight, razor and what they all were name…
And the time where you had to search search-engines was also cool. Then google came and changed it all. They rocked!..then they removed “don’t be evil!” As slogan and shit went downhill into hell 😒