tbh I barely used it before. I used local BBSs in the early 90s then I got a local dialup internet service that provided a unix prompt, and from that I could use things like Gopher and Usenet. Usenet was mostly fine through the mid 90s, but AOL caused an uptick in dumbs
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Replying to @TheFifthMax
Usenet was/is a distributed message board system that was where most public conversations would go on back then. AOL was a service that provided dialup service to its own systems and later to the internet, and it was famous for sending out millions of CDs
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Replying to @HbdNrx @TheFifthMax
Young people typically got access to the internet through colleges until the later 90s when lots of people started to use internet providers like AOL. Old people got AOL for email and news but didn't do that much else with the internet until Facebook
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Replying to @HbdNrx @TheFifthMax
Gopher was an internet protocol from the pre-web days, mainly used for searching
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Replying to @TheFifthMax
Local BBSs were fun when I was 13, but really they weren't that great. I mostly liked downloading the shareware games. Gopher wasn't very good. Searching in the pre-Google days was pretty bad. There was Yahoo with its catalog and altavista (lol)
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Replying to @HbdNrx @TheFifthMax
Usenet and the early wild west days of internet culture (eg Napster with its rampant piracy) were good, though.
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