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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

lol no. It was pre-IRC. Technically pre-WWW. This was in a weird period between when the first commercial ISPs became a thing and websites as we know them today began to pop up. It was all kind of self-contained. You were connecting to a curated network of things and not untethered to explore everything connected to "the internet."

[–] Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You mean before the dot com boom ??🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 hours ago

I mean slightly before dot com even existed.