Does anybody here remember the old internet before the monopoly of Big Tech? What was it like?

Does anybody here remember the old internet before the monopoly of Big Tech? What was it like?

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Heck yeah my nigger!

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A lot of really shitty text based web pages with no web design or appeal. Image boards were still pretty big. Everything took forever to download, including images on a site. Forums had rules like "No images over 128kb" in order to keep their bandwidth down and allow other users to load pages faster. Napster and Limewire and Kazaa were the go to's for downloading porn and music. And yes, CS 1.3 was absolutely based and filled with the level of competitive trash talk you would expect from a platform that had essentially no rules or regulations. Before E-sports were huge HLTV was a thing that competitive leagues for Counter Strike used to stream footage of games for the Cyber Athletic League.

Play the game "Hypnospace Outlaw" to get a pretty good idea.

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Person post exact question with exact photo all the time.

Also, chat rooms. Everywhere. Really shitty fan sites made with the most base level understanding of HTML on Geocities or Homestead. Really fucking bland.

You being data mined

And this. Fucking fantastic game, such a nostalgia rush. I loved that game so much.

>What was it like?
Free Speech everywhere and slow as fuck. The (((Powers that be))) saw how redpills were being dropped in AOL chatrooms and put an end to free speech on the internet.
But it was slow.

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