>I fell down the internet history rabbit hole again

Well we are coming up the 30th anniversary of when the internet was generally available to the public instead of universities and researchers. Basically the Windows 95 release date is also the release date of the internet for normies. I myself got the internet on September 1 1999 with "Freeserve" (The BBC recently did a podcast about them).

Reminder that Internet Explorer was the Google Chrome of its day, and despite Firefox's efforts it was actually KDE that set the stage for "Web 2.0" standards.

AI may be wrecking the web right now, but there are still homo sapiens writing effort posts on /g/ to keep the spirt of '95 alive.

>>106007708 (OP)
>Freeserve
We used something called Prodigy in 1996. I think I used dial-up 4KB/s down up until 2005. lol

First went online in early 1994 with my Amiga 1200 on a super slow dialup modem, using Demon (who were a pioneering ISP but failed to move with the times)
The web existed but there was very little there. The real action was on usenet