I’ve been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?
Early 2000s Internet is like 90s Internet but with more bandwith and CSS.
It’s more before and after having a GUI web, which wasn’t so much a matter of Andreessen inventing it (which happened in like 1994/1995) as it was ISP’s switching over from shell accounts for their users so most people could use it (which was more 1997 - 1999 or so.)
Before that most of the social internet was usenet and IRC. Usenet in particular reminded me a lot of what reddit was for a while (especially reddit old) and what I could see the fediverse turning into.