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What's your favorite Web 1.0 memory? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Takeshidude@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Prior to the internet condensing into just 5 or so websites, what do you remember fondling about being online?

I remember winning a raffle contest on the old Terraria forums and getting to pick my own title (instead of just New Member, Member, Well-Known Member). Of course, since I was like 13, I picked a random collection of letters that only I knew was an acronym of my signature on said forums.

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[–] ArtVandelay@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

This was in 99 or so. I still didn't have internet at home, but my town had dial-up and cyber-cafés. There was this local TV channel dedicated to anime, and I would occasionally buy these cheap magazines with information about the anime of the moment (Sailor Moon, DBZ, Slayers, etc.). The magazine had links to fan shrines, and that's how I met a lot of people and got into the culture.

To write them, I'd compose an email at home, save it in .txt and then take it to the cyber-café in a diskette. There, I'd login to my inbox -- which only had like 2MB of storage and would fill very quickly! -- and paste the message and send it. If I got a reply, I'd save it in a file and read it at home.

Similarly, when I got into fanfiction, I'd have to skim the summaries, and the overall story to see if I might like to read it. I quickly learned to use Ctrl+F and my favorite characters' names. If I liked what little I read, I'd paste it into a file and read it fully at home.