I really miss these days. Sure the internet speeds were painfully slow, but I knew my ISP. I could go have lunch with them. I could borrow compute resources during slow times.

I think when the cable companies started monopolizing the internet and the web because commercialized, that's when we lost a lot of computing's early "innocence".

I'm sure someone will say I'm romanticizing that period, but darnit, just let me.