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26 years ago is pretty old, in relation to the lifespan of the internet
What's before then then?
That would be the classical era of the internet, just after the baroque internet which in turn followed the renaissance internet.
If you go back further you'll find the internet of late antiquity, the ancient internet before that, then finally the pre-internet which we can only study through physical media since it was the era prior to the earliest known examples of the internet.
What percentage of people do you think had the internet in 1995?
Not 0? This chain is confusing. I guess a lot of you are young and me pointing out a truth really bothered y'all. Sorry gen Z.
The first public web browser was in 93. Get over yourself.
I can't imagine getting emotionally invested in something so meaningless, but OK. I'm over myself.
Well, you certainly seemed invested enough to act like a pedantic dickhead, adding nothing to a conversation other than pointing out how long you've been around and experienced you were in the internet before it was cool.
Lol what? You inferred all that from a couple of sentences? Yeah I'm the one with problem...
In the US it was about 8%, most other countries were lower. Just 5 years later, Canada surpassed 50% internet usage, with the USA not far behind. The pace of change over the 90s was astronomical; there were *no webpages in 1990!
So it absolutely makes sense to separate the "old internet" from what existed in the 90s.
The oldest people in Gen Z were 3 years old in 2000, so I don't think any of them are speaking about that old internet from experience.
Seeing 'early internet' I came here expecting a discussion about IRC, Usenet and Gopher, to be honest. 'Early internet' means pre-http for me.