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1c7  ·  4533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who else remembers when the Internet was a nice place to visit?
I'm not sure it was ever a particularly nice place to begin with. Eternal september and all that jazz.




winston  ·  4533 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I am a relatively new user of the internet for social reasons and I visit only 2 sites often: Hacker News and Hubski. I find that they are both void of the consumerism that plagues most other spaces.
insomniasexx  ·  4532 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Except for the influx of car parts....everywhere. :P
thenewgreen  ·  4532 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Doh! That's why I did this. Who knows, it could unleash a storm of carparts posts, but he seemed to be a genuine fella.
mk  ·  4531 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It was pretty darn innocent and friendly before www. BBSing was too simple to get unfriendly. Mostly just nerds, having fun.
1c7  ·  4531 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I wasn't in before www, though.
mk  ·  4529 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Just saying that it was a pretty nice place to begin with. However even then, there was a dark side. A kid in my school ran a bbs with a few phone lines, which was a pretty rare occurrence. He also boasted "over 1 gig of storage" which was also unheard of. Anyway, most of that storage was porn. I recall he knew some guy that would take pictures of girls at a local hotel.