Huh, I had no idea. Thanks for the info!

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Sounds expensive

Wetter times

Stereotyped characterizations of black people were then common (with Mickey’s design itself apparently evolved from blackface caricatures used in minstrel shows, down to the gloves).

WOW

All of 4 gen-x usenet users pictured

also, phonics

Giving up on phonics was a horrible idea. I’m not sure whose to blame for that but it clearly was a disaster.

The tools were annoying but the process wasn’t very hard. Unprotected FTPs were pretty common early on and IRC download bots were around before torrenting. Sharing applications like Kazaa, Scour, Limewire, and Napster were super simple. There were fewer roadblocks. I wouldn’t want to explain to someone how to get a private invite, understand the trackers rules, and ensure they do not get VPN leaks.

I can’t even tell you what us Gen Xers did

They watched tv and traded tapes.

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At the end of Vanilla with cross-realm bgs it was a lot of xbox live talk in chat. At least that was easy to temporarily ignore. In the begining I didn’t get to much of that though. Most the people doing WSG were just trying to figure out what works. We all kind of sucked and there wasn’t much online to learn from. People also had to interact with eachother more so it was just not a good idea to be a jerk.

I loved WSG. If there was a private server that was just vanilla WSG and AV I’d probably never logoff lol.

Bluesky is a psyop insofar as every Silicon Valley platform is a psyop

Yah, there is truth to that.

so it filled up with VBNMW liberals and associated clout chasers.

This is the part that is just hilarious to me. The most annoying people on twitter all went in en masse to this one service where so many better alternatives existed. And then all the nazi’s rushed in to replace them. These people behave more like bots than I would expect bots to.