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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6049863" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>wow. that's a blast from the past.</p><p></p><p>people used applications like Eudora to read their e-mail, rather than off a website like Gmail or Hotmail.</p><p></p><p>ARCHY and FTP were how people found programs to download. Nowadays, you use a web site to search (google) and download files and content off a website from that search.</p><p></p><p>Normal folks had to use Compuserve or AOL to get online, rather than connect directly to an ISP and just a web browser. This meant AOL or Compuserve would wrap the web with their interfaces, often supplying (and charging for) redundant services that the web can do without (like email, or search).</p><p></p><p>Discussion groups were based on USENET. Nowadays, every other website has its own forum software instead.</p><p></p><p>Web pages were ugly as crap. They usually used the default font and background color. Layout was terrible. Part of this was due to bandwidth limitations. Really fancy layout tended to be graphics heavy, which would make the page slow to download.</p><p></p><p>Even the HTML editor of the day, HoTMetaL was clunky and unintuitive as it still clung to the literal definitions of the syntax, rather than what you get today to make some text bold or set some text as a hyperlink with a button off the button bar.</p><p></p><p>Gosh, those were the days....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6049863, member: 8835"] wow. that's a blast from the past. people used applications like Eudora to read their e-mail, rather than off a website like Gmail or Hotmail. ARCHY and FTP were how people found programs to download. Nowadays, you use a web site to search (google) and download files and content off a website from that search. Normal folks had to use Compuserve or AOL to get online, rather than connect directly to an ISP and just a web browser. This meant AOL or Compuserve would wrap the web with their interfaces, often supplying (and charging for) redundant services that the web can do without (like email, or search). Discussion groups were based on USENET. Nowadays, every other website has its own forum software instead. Web pages were ugly as crap. They usually used the default font and background color. Layout was terrible. Part of this was due to bandwidth limitations. Really fancy layout tended to be graphics heavy, which would make the page slow to download. Even the HTML editor of the day, HoTMetaL was clunky and unintuitive as it still clung to the literal definitions of the syntax, rather than what you get today to make some text bold or set some text as a hyperlink with a button off the button bar. Gosh, those were the days.... [/QUOTE]
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