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Re: Things I Miss About The Old Internet (Incomplete)

Things I Miss About The Old Internet (Incomplete)

Here's my list:

• less morons

And there you have it! ;-)

Okay.. that was fibbing just slightly...

• automating and melding otherwise disparate systems via scripting (bash/perl) and/or early APIs without the effort/pain being mostly about security (of course, that was in large part because there were less morons...)
• page loads on a 486 that would rate as "impossibly blindingly fast" compared to the molasses of page loads on modern, much higher-powered machines
• the naive - yet still convincing - illusion that the dreams of the founders were still possible