a brief subjective internet history shall follow belowhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1445631895698505728 …
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im going to be wrong about some dates and you can decide whether its deliberate obfuscation or whether im just fucking it up in my recollection
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1990: my parents get a shareware catalogue (you could order diskettes with shareware for cheap, and shipped to you) and I discover Commander Keen and id software. incredible stuff. played it on an 286 machine my dad picked up used for $200. had a VGA monitor, important
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1992: i get access to the internet for the first time through my parents' university account. i can barely read, but they give me directions to log onto GOPHER via DOS I use Archie + Veronica to look for information about stars which id recently learned came in different colors
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We got the Innernette in like 1995 when I was in Grade 2 and the first thing my cousin and I looked up was Superman Whenever I try out a new kind of search engine I start with "Superman" in memoriam
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