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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The public internet has been around about three times longer than what you're calling "old".

Geocities, Angelfire, and dialup modems are the "old" internet.

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] jawa21@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IRC is still very much around.

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Not in the way it used to be though. I guess what I really miss is finding matches for counterstrike and stuff using IRC, it felt properly community based instead of designed to extract maximum money.

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