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    1 year ago

    AOL alone had 18 million subscribers around 1999. Were you online in the 90s? It was incredible.

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        You say that like it proves something? A lot of schools had access in the 90s even if the kids’s homes did not. Library’s were very popular. TV shows and news started displaying their web URLs. Home DSL and Cable internet started to become a thing.

        Half of what I used the internet for in the 90s was video game walkthroughs, hacks and cheat codes.

        Were you using the internet in the 90s?

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          In 99 we only had crappy dialup and I didn’t really know how to browse the web, even if I sort of understood the basics (and I would have been six, admittedly). My dad would look up cheat codes at work for games I was playing and download the Web page onto a floppy drive to bring home to me. It was wild times.

          That to say, the infrastructure was all there, but it’s hardly guaranteed as a kid that you’re browsing the web and know where to find all the best glitches.