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The Jurassic Web

A Slate colocou esse ótimo artigo sobre a internet de 1996 e sobre o que tinha para fazer na época. Lembro que estava na oitava série, lá em 1995, quando meu pai resolveu que a gente teria internet em casa. Não são muitas as memórias que tenho de como era a internet desses primeiros dias mas, o que eu lembro, se assemelha muito a essa descrição logo abaixo.

It’s 1996, and you’re bored. What do you do? If you’re one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you’d do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are—”Welcome.” You check your mail, then spend a few minutes chatting with your AOL buddies about which of you has the funniest screen name (you win, pimpodayear94).

Then you load up Internet Explorer, AOL’s default Web browser. Now what? There’s no YouTube, Digg, Huffington Post, or Gawker. There’s no Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Wikipedia.

The Jurassic Web: The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.

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