• @TechLich
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    665 months ago

    Haha, the internet did not fit on a 1.44mb floppy in 1998. Curious to know what was on this‽

    1998 was well into the CD-ROM era and the internet was full of .mp3s and .isos by then.

    • blargerer
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      305 months ago

      Trans-Equity is apparently a real estate brokerage in Florida. Maybe a backup of their website?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      145 months ago

      I assumed it was the configuration to set a computer up to connect to the internet.

    • @aeronmelonM
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      135 months ago

      If it’s not meant to be funny, it might be a site index.

  • @aeronmelonM
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    5 months ago

    My Star Trek GeoCities website in 1996 had so many images on it you would have needed a CD-R to back it up.

    In 1998, there was so much media (Images, music, shareware, games, even video) on the net it would have taken a server farm to make a copy.

  • Diplomjodler
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    185 months ago

    This is why I always print it out.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      45 months ago

      I knew people who would print out stuff from the internet and bring it to work to share with everyone. Without someone’s email address, that was really the only way to share it, since nobody had mobile phones at the time, and even the few phones that existed didn’t have Internet.

      • IndiBrony
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        35 months ago

        I remember printing off cheats for my PS1 games because it was easier than writing it all down to take to my bedroom to use them!

    • @Spider2013
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      15 months ago

      I’m printing this post and comments so I can remember them later

    • @MissJinx
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      25 months ago

      My first thought too lol

    • @egrets
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      25 months ago

      This is funny, but also, fuck Graham Linehan.

  • @teamevil
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    85 months ago

    Holy shit that company is still there and everything

  • TotallyNotSpez
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    75 months ago

    Those were the days. All human knowledge (1.2 MB) easily fit on a 3.5 inch floppy boi.