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Does it really feel like the old web though? I'm a zoomie (22) and I kinda developed a rose tinted nostalgia for the old web (Windows 98 era) where I didn't even live in (tbf apparently a lot of zoomers have some nostalgia obsession with some sort of era).
Veteran lads, can Lemmy capture the old web feeling?
Right now, because it’s still growing and developing, Lemmy has this sudo-wild west felling to it. Like anything can happen.
This was how things were in the early days of the internet. With no way to know how things are going to turn out, people are just hanging out. Smaller groups interacting with each other, and just having fun.
It feels like a reboot, or a modern revision of the how things were.
Pseudo make sandwich 😉
Ha! I read, and re-read my post at least 3 times and could not figure out why it felt wrong.
Too much bash and not enough books
As an old YTMND user, this is probably as close as it will ever get to what I experienced back then. I'd say have fun with this while you can, lol.
What's YTMND?
I think people say it's got a bit of an old school feeling to it more because it feels a little bit lawless, and new, and experimental - a wild-west with a user base still finding its feet and expanding and figuring out what this place is and what communities will form.
I've been kicking around the internet since the 90s so it's quite a nice feeling, although not quite the same!
Yeah for one we didn't have up-points on all our posts and comments, and even in more active BBSes, forums, or chat rooms, you rarely had as many people in one "place" at a time. Really your only method of interaction or "reacting" or registering approval/disapproval was through writing something of your own.
And nothing ever went viral, because no one but a bunch of nerds cared about what happened on the internet.
But they will never know what is like to be under the fear of a cold war and a nuclear attack...oh, wait, shit!
Mr. Putin, bring down this wall!!
The Internet felt like a brand spanking new wild West back in the 90s like there was so much to discover and explore. You don't understand the novelty of having all the information at your fingertips immediately. What was that actor's name in that movie that one time? What was the name of that song with those lyrics? Missed last week's episode, used to just hope you can catch it on summer reruns, but with internet you could look up whatever you missed.
Lenny right now feels like a wal mart brand replacement for something you had a long time that just broke and you're still trying to find a long term replacement. It's got some of the features, a fraction of the content, a bunch of new words to learn, and a lot more bugs, so who knows. It's just a message board at the end of the day so I'm not sure if it brings anything new to the table like 90's internet did.
BBS had threaded discussion and different topics and servers in the 80s, a lot like the fediverse
Yes and no. It should be a niche forum covering competitive speed fisting but it's a really bland version of internet 2.0
Not even close.
It does a bit. Modern internet has walled gardens and constant rage bait. Havent seen it yet here.
The original vibe was one of lack of consolidated info, extremely niche groups, and a lot of self discovery. This is so far beyond anything of that nature I find the comparison straight up weird. The lack of rage harkens back to maybe late 2000s but definitely not the early 90s to win98 vibe.
No, not even close. The web was pretty shit and — get this — nothing you ever did on it counted.
[cries in screeching modem sounds]
Plus there's not enough dancing baby gifs or under construction signs.
Or screeching primary colors, textured backgrounds, or badly rendered fonts. Or
<blink>and<marquee>.Or
Partially. The main feeling of old is the greater sense of community, even if everyone is a named anonymous. People don't have to fight for attention around here. If you want to see a better visual representation of mid 90's internet, check neocities.org
Yeah I've already heard about that. I absolutely love those website designs. Each site beautifully represent the creator's personality, which makes it fun exploring these sites.
There are several eras of the web.
I think Lemmy feels very much of the "Web 2.0" era, which came about in the mid-to-late naughties. When MySpace and Facebook and blogging were all the rage.
So not the same "old web" era as Windows 98. If that makes sense!
yeah, we'd need more Geosities banner ads and html tags to go back to the Macweb1.0/Mosaic era. ....Sometimes I still visit zombo.com to feel young again.
The UI is much nicer than way back in the day. It's a hell of a lot faster, and there are way more people. But the feeling of posting something without having your data collected is bringing me back though.
Yeah that's totally understandable. I just really love all the old web feeling recapturing neocities sites like these: https://exo.pet/, https://dokode.moe/, https://shishka.neocities.org/shishka/new
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/