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What is the earliest thing that you can remember seeing or hearing online? (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dial up modem sound. Followed by the AOL portal site.

I didn't know what a URL was, so I was stuck with going through the kids section of the site, which I believe was a webcrawler that grabbed sites that had games on them. That was pretty much the internet for me.

[โ€“] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

What you need my friend, is a web portal!