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Condor
2mo ago
That is not true. Really early Internet, half 90's it was a user created space. Nobody would even think to use internet for commercial purposes. Companies come later when they discovered that it would have been smart.
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Rod
@rodbishop
2mo ago
I reminisce about those days too. I remember them so well. I came from BBS to ICQ and MSN chat in my mid teens. It was like, the thing that helped me recover from another crappy day at school. And I feel a lot of that vibe returning here on Nostr.
But still, fundamentally I learned to use Webcrawler and Altavista to, as a user, discover a publisher, which (putting aside Geocities for a moment) was usually a business.
I never would have considered that publishers would fight to seek me out. But that's where I think we may be going.
I think the script is going to flip from internet dominated by service providers, to one dominated by user intent.
But still, fundamentally I learned to use Webcrawler and Altavista to, as a user, discover a publisher, which (putting aside Geocities for a moment) was usually a business.
I never would have considered that publishers would fight to seek me out. But that's where I think we may be going.
I think the script is going to flip from internet dominated by service providers, to one dominated by user intent.
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Condor
@Condor
2mo ago
The main difference was that we were ready to plug in a modem, set the data rate, search for the fidonet phone numbers to call. It wasn't plug and play. We made an effort to be online and we were filtered out from the pure users. Here is like that because you can not Google play this app.
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