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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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The dial up modem sounds. I don't know why, but I genuinely miss them
I also miss the reduced footprint of mega companies with their "we are the internet" monopolistic tendencies. They still wanted to be the entire internet, but they weren't.
I miss when Google's motto was "Do no evil".
I miss when Usenet was for something more than downloading porn and pirated content
I miss Geocities and everyone having their own shitty webpage
I don't miss IRC and netsplits, or images that would load line by line and rearrange your page as they did. I don't miss JavaScript popup ads or websites that played looping wav files with no easy option to stop them.
Especially this. The web was just different without all the bloated pages with dozens of trackers.