I got on the 'Net in 1993. The Web was very "meh". A lot of tutorials on how to ...

flomo · 2026-02-21T05:47:06 1771652826

Wired Magazine famously agreed with you. Usenet was where it was at then.

Internet commercialization wasn't really on until 1994. Then anyone could get dial-up IP, they could put ads on their webpages, and etc.

razingeden · 2026-02-21T03:28:36 1771644516

I remember that. I had almost zero interest in www until geocities came along and then …it was something else to compose and publish a “website”

The whole thing was atrocious but at least introduced me to the concept.

In fact, I had to spend like three days downloading Netscape to try it out because I didn’t even have a graphical browser yet.

qingcharles · 2026-02-21T21:50:42 1771710642

Every time I'm downloading something and "only" getting a megabyte/sec download I take a deep breath and remember the days when I was getting 0.5KB/sec.