Everyone was nice to each other and followed unwritten rules in communication. :)
Configuring my UUCP connection to provide my BBS users with « electronic mail ».
Leisure Suit Larry
Ken sent me
It takes leather balls to play rugby
Lubbers
I wasn't born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren't total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don't want sites like wikihow to come up... I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.
Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.
How everyone who knew how to had their own personal homepage.
I love https://www.cameronsworld.net/. I wish websites were still made like this.
What am I looking at here lmfao
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