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Remember, the internet isn't a nice place anymore.

Abigail, does that mean that it used to be?
/me boggles at the thought...
Perhaps you are referring to the pre-internet days.
DARPANET or perhaps even further back when it was ARPANET?

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(OT) The Internet used to be fun
by talexb (Chancellor) on Nov 14, 2002 at 16:31 UTC

    Yes, the Internet used to be a nice place.

    Well, that's my perspective from joining CompuServe in the late 80's and enjoying it till the mid-90's. It was a great community, we had a lot of fun sharing and discussing the news, trying out new software and occasionally :) roasting Microsoft.

    I can't complain -- I got my first non-student Internet E-Mail address from them. For a while I was 73067.1500@compuserve.com, before we entered the ISP of the month period of Modern History.

    Unfortunately CompuServe's business model started to fail in the second half of the 90's -- charging connect time by the minute (especially at the rate they were charging) made less and less sense. Then, of course, they were bought by AOL.

    Fun memories. :)

    --t. alex
    but my friends call me T.
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