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Well, what I remember from 1995-2005 (time for high school over here), was the transitionfrom dial-up to DSL, being always connected, first WiFi and smarter devices.
Moving away from Dos 6.22 to Win 95/98/ME/XP. Sadly Mac and Linux were too hipster for my circle, although I had some CDs with Redhat and a distribution by Corel, so it was my first approach.
Then, we awaited for the newer GUI, I remember analyzing the newest Office XP and then the Ribbon in 2007. Comparing vs OpenOffice which remained with the 2003 style.
Also the war between Netscape, Internet Explorer, Oera, then Firefox and Chrome. Now safari and then Brave.
Also RSS, Bittorrent, P2P file sharing like Napster, Kazza (?), Ares and such.
What I'm trying to say is that the war between the hobbyist net and the comercial one is going to be interesting to say the least. We use the same comercial systems (ISPs, carriers) to access both and due to Jacob's law, we are influenced and inspired by both. We try to look for things that resemble what we already know.
For example I was thinking on having a Digg/Reddit/HackerNews clone for the Smol.net, but it makes no sense. As a lot of people have said recently in my feeds, technology has an intention and there are hundreds of technologies with thousands of intentions.
Random thoughts for a nice weekend. Enjoy, friends 🥂