Longtime webusers of lemmy, what’s your favorite memory from using the internet in the late '90s?What do you miss about the early web? - eviltoast
  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It was separate from real life. Like, you had to make a conscious decision to “go online”, because otherwise you were always offline. Now it’s harder to be offline. I guess I’m saying I miss the days where we weren’t expected to always be reachable. The phone and the internet were at home.

    • Wiz@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      It was also a sacrifice to go online. You would tie up one communication channel to use another.