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sxtxixtxcxh on Nov 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Welcome to the new web.

i remember the old web, a web without RSS or ATOM feeds.

jsilence on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

Yeah. Gopher and Archie. And you would 'talk' with someone. People had shell accounts.

Good thing is: No one is keeping you from giving a CPR to Fidonet. Redundancy gives resilience.

dave1010uk on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

I remember when #foo was an IRC channel, not a Twitter hash tag.

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