#earlyinternet — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #earlyinternet, aggregated by home.social.
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What is the first time you encountered a service on the internet that was suspiciously free? (Probably it's older than google, but it could be google).
The idea is that now we expect every internet service to be free, even if it's actually very expensive to run it (= it becomes surveillance capitalism/ads infested).
BUT we used to expect paid services even if they were intangible (calls and sending SMSs). So where did it broke?
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How about reintroduce Gopher?
No virus, no AI, just pure links and text information.I’m serious. The Internet is dead as we know it.
RSS feeds and raw text is awsome
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Stoll built a fake military project to trap a KGB hacker. It worked. The Cuckoo's Egg is one of the first true accounts of cyber espionage ever written.
#CuckoosEgg #CliffordStoll #EarlyInternet #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cuckoos-egg-book-review/ -
‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute https://petapixel.com/2026/06/09/charlie-bit-my-finger-video-officially-preserved-by-british-film-institute/ #charliebitmyfinger #earlyinternet #internetmeme #preservation #viralvideo #Culture #youtube #News
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Best band website I have seen since probably 2006:
https://www.feeblelittlehorse.com/#music #indie #myspace #earlyInternet #retro #feeblelittlehorse
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Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute https://petapixel.com/2026/05/18/badger-badger-badger-video-officially-preserved-by-british-film-institute/ #britishfilminstitute #charliebitmyfinger #earlyinternet #internetmeme #preservation #internet #Culture #badger #News
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One day in the mid-90s, my phone rang, and when I answered, the voice on the other end said, "Hello. This is the information superhighway calling."
I held the receiver out in front of me and stared at it, wondering if I was dreaming. #EarlyInternet #90s #InformationSuperHighway
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YouTube… Over Dial Up - In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/29/youtube-over-dial-up/ #retrocomputing #earlyinternet #dialup #modem
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Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.
Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
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1/3 - @internetarchive I miss being a kid on mIRC. Before what most people today classify as social media, before ICQ, MSN Messenger, FrontPage 98, StarCraft, RuneScape, Napster, BitTorrent, or Stack Overflow. I was a kid fresh out of BBS discovering the “Information Superhighway” on a dial-up connection.
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Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web
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Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web
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Step back to 1997 with a special episode of The Power of Music Thinking! I'm sharing my first online interview with the incredible Daniel Barenboim – a pioneering moment for both of us.
We discussed classical music, the role of music in Europe, and even Tango & Pop.
Hope you enjoy this trip to the early days of the web!
Listen to the episode: https://musicthinking.com/pioneering-music-thinking-and-first-online-interview-with-daniel-barenboim-special-episode/#DanielBarenboim #Podcast #SpecialEpisode #EarlyInternet #TechHistory #ClassicalMusicPodcast #Leadership
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@kubikpixel Flashback to nineties "webrings" before there were good search engines and links from one website to another were often the best way to find new interesting sites. Even the use of badges are 100% in line with the 1990s esthetic. #1990s #webring #earlyInternet
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I have now repeatedly heard the claim that #ADVENT was spread over #ARPANET. I'm pretty sure that this is a modern misconception since bandwidth was so limited in the 70s that 100s of kilobytes or even megabytes surely couldn't just be transferred at will.
Can anyone shed more light on this? A proof one way or the other?
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How many #modems can you identify from sound alone?
Please boost for reach! Peace!
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One of the benefits of Christmas Browser 99 was a new Christmas MIDI file each day leading up to Christmas!
🏷️ #90sTech #EarlyInternet #RetroTechnology #1990s #TechNostalgia #TechThrowback #OldSchoolInternet #VintageTech -
Remember early 2000 browsers like NeoPlanet and Maxthon, which were variants using IE's Trident engine? I bet you didn't know there was dedicated Christmas Browser! Surprisingly, their website is still active!
🏷️ #90sTech #EarlyInternet #RetroTechnology #1990s #TechNostalgia #TechThrowback #OldSchoolInternet #VintageTech -
"Up From Underground: The IUMA Story" - The Internet Underground Music Archive and the indie origins of the digital music revolution
https://www.goodtimes.sc/up-from-underground-the-iuma-story/
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Mahir produced one of the first viral websites. I remember this from the early days of the internet, and Borat is 100% a rip-off of Mahir. Who else is a Mahir fan? https://donkeyontheedge.com/mahir/ #Mahir #90sInternet #memes #EarlyInternet #90s
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Early Internet:
🎵 Keep My Mouth Out of Your Namehttps://earlyinternet.bandcamp.com/track/keep-my-mouth-out-of-your-name
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Juno email service, introduced in 1996, was a groundbreaking free email service that allowed users to send and receive emails without needing to be connected to the internet the entire time. It provided an innovative solution during a time when internet access was limited and expensive. Although its prominence has faded, Juno remains a memorable part of early internet history. #90sTech #EarlyInternet #RetroTechnology #1990s #EmailHistory #TechNostalgia #TechThrowback #OldSchoolInternet
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AI today is like the internet in 1988: Salesforce AI CEO - The AI industry could be on the brink of a significant breakthrough, acc... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-today-like-internet-1988-salesforce-ceo #aibreakthrough #earlyinternet #aidevelopment #vivatechparis #salesforceai #aiautomation #aiindustry #clarashih #aifuture
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I remember some of the file-trading services I used online around 1995. At that point, the best sounding music I’d heard on the Internet were shitty midi files. There were CDs and DVDs to be found, if you knew where to look. These secret trading groups listed stuff you owned, and stuff you were looking for. My favourite was a rare files group. There were so many things I wanted to hear/see, but I never seemed to have anything they wanted in trade. I finally made a trade: I made a cassette dub of a William S. Burroughs radio release and traded it for a shitty VHS bootleg of the BBC production of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. When I got the VHS tape in the mail, it was so staticky that it was barely watchable. But I was happy to get to see it.
It’s funny how different it is, now. I kinda miss the bartering days of the mid-90s. Bartering is much more interpersonal than just having a Netflix account, and the communities and web rings for esoteric groups were more of a tight-knit cohort of friends. The Internet was a much smaller place back then. #ThrowbackThursday #EarlyInternet #FileSharing