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abc said on November 8th, 2008 at 11:46 pm :

The “Life on the Net” article is from 1994.

The Web as we once saw it said on December 8th, 2010 at 2:23 am :

[…] particularly fascinated in the ways in the Internet was perceived in the past because the benefit of hindsight gives us a […]

Dawn P said on December 8th, 2010 at 3:50 pm :

Oh, the designs of the mid ’90s… My childhood comes back in vibrant color.

This is such neat stuff – I remember the slow ‘net when I was a kid; snagging free *animated* adoptables off geocities sites, making my first website with lots of neat colors and being proud that I could use HTML, the modem noises that made it really hard to sneak downstairs and get online at midnight!

The next generation is never going to hear a modem, never going to describe their file sizes in bits… never going to know a time when they couldn’t get online using their cell phone or game system.

Scary.