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Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop by neuromanser on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:32PM (#38030647)
Can you expand on "hard-to-use internet of the 90s"? Beause I honestly think it is in most ways harder to use nowadays.
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Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop by itronitron on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:03PM (#38031676)
you had to read stuff
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Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop by soderfoo on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:49PM (#38032132)
Best I could think of is the dropped connection whenever someone picked up the phone in your home.
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Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop by sph on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:51AM (#38036512)
Or whenever someone typed +++ATH0 in IRC :)
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Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop by sph on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:49AM (#38036498)
It is often described as such. I was 13 when I got my first dial-up. With all the free time and excitement I had, it was very easy for me to get into, and certainly more fun than whatever today's internet is.

So to be honest, I do not understand the common slander and mischaracterization of the utterly vibrant pre-2000s Internet, in all its beauty and awfulness.

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