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What kind of websites did people visit? Were people friendly?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When you played a PC game online, you didn't just hit a button and get put into a game somewhere; you had to look at all the servers and pick one. You could then come back to that same server whenever you wanted to play and hang out with the same people.

Also the server wasn't ran by or owned by the game creators, but by the players themselves who would host servers or at least rent them from server hosting services.

Oh and content wasn't sold piecemeal to nickel and dime the fuck out of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mostly spent my time on Livejournal, or reading large family adoption blogs. As a result I have friends with 27 and 39 kids respectively. Blogging was so sweet then and so therapeutic. Facebook ruined everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For those who remember Geocities, you can still visit those old websites that people used to create for themselves. https://www.oocities.org/

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