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NikolaiFyodorov · 3939 days ago · link · · parent · post: A 1995 opinion piece that questions the importance of the internet
Your analysis of the author not being forward looking is on the mark. Certainly the internet was a lot more than just Usenet by 1995. The popular site names were different, the graphics were worse and things took a damn long time to load, but otherwise it really wasn't that unrecognisable from today. From my memory the internet in the mid-90s consisted of porn, chat sites, personal web pages and fan sites. Sound familiar?