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@InvaderXan@sunbeam.city
You might be an Internet Ancient if you:

• remember Netscape Navigator

• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower

• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal

• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB

• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster

• used the web before Google existed

• ever used a dialup BBS site

• remember Gopher

• ever downloaded music as .mod files

• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them

• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites

• know IRC commands

• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"

• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make

• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one

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@mike@z.macgirvin.com
Don't even know where to start. We didn't call it the "internet" until the early 90s. I'll just say I got my site indexed in Yahoo by stopping by the office at Stanford Business School where yahoo was a single desktop Sun workstation and writing down the URL. Cat pics were in ASCII. I attended GopherCon. Oh and I worked on Netscape Navigator.
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