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[–] [email protected] 60 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IRC is still very much around.

[–] [email protected] 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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