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@fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

[ArsTechnica] The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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[ArsTechnica] The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
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1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
  • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶
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    13•1 year ago

    I’m a bit of a digital pack rat but I can’t imagine having kept everything since the early 90s.

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      6•1 year ago

      I had emails back then from both home and work (and BBS rimemail and fido) all burned to CD’s for archival. Found them 10 years ago in storage, none were still readable. :(

      • 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶
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        Aww. That’s disappointing. cd-rw really don’t have the best shelf life unfortunately.

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          Yeah. I mean, I knew that was a possibility, I’d read that plenty of times… I’d think, oh, I need to transfer those someday. Someday. Aaaaand it’s gone. :(

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