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2004 was yesterday

i was on the internet in 01992: before adsense, before monkey punchers, before geocities, before amazon, but not before dot-com, as my references to lynx and the nsf should have told you. money was a big factor but not in the way you are describing

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same year for me. I have such fond memories of those few years where you could just scour through university FTPs and websites for hours, finding so much cool (and informative) stuff. It felt like getting a peek into so many worlds I knew nothing about, and it felt limitless (especially as I was a kid at the time). Indeed, the openness and "generosity" of people online in those days set such a good example for me, that I try to "pay forward" in my daily actions and work.

one way in which firefox is worse now is that ftp support got broken a few years ago

1992 was 7 years before 2004, which was 20 years before today.

>1992 was 7 years before 2004

1992 was 12 years before 2004

they were an especially eventful 12 years for the internet

dyscalclia sucks

Just subtracted off one too many fives!

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