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? (lemmy.world)

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Usenet forums, and this application I had that tracked my request along the path it took - it was a map of the big pipes of the internet, the highways; I would search or send an email or whatever then could open this program to see the literal path it took to the destination computer. If I was on the college proxy server it would use different 'roads' than if I was on the account I had through the phone company. It was fascinating.

I don't miss everything being difficult to accomplish.

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