I've heard the same that FB membership is on a decline, but
I haven't heard what users are replacing it with.
Instagram seems like a total waste of time to me; it
doesn't foster comms - it foster's "look at me and my
stuff!"
It loooks like IM from mobile platforms is the prefered
substitute for facebook and other common social media,
which sounds bonkers to me because they are not the same
thing at all. However, that is how it seems to be :-)
It loooks like IM from mobile platforms is the prefered
substitute for facebook and other common social media,
which sounds bonkers to me because they are not the same
thing at all. However, that is how it seems to be :-)
A very interesting podcast about a week ago:
Oct. 9, 2022: 554: The promise and legacy of the early web
Arelor wrote to Ogg <=-
I certainly didn't live the AOL days. Internet/network coverage reached
my region so late that we mostly skipped the early days, I think.
I commend boraxman for mentioned alternate search engines. The
certainly capture the feeling of browsing sane non-ad ridden sites XD
** On Thursday 06.10.22 - 05:40, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
I've heard the same that FB membership is on a decline, but
I haven't heard what users are replacing it with.
Instagram seems like a total waste of time to me; it
doesn't foster comms - it foster's "look at me and my
stuff!"
It loooks like IM from mobile platforms is the prefered
substitute for facebook and other common social media,
which sounds bonkers to me because they are not the same
thing at all. However, that is how it seems to be :-)
A very interesting podcast about a week ago:
Oct. 9, 2022: 554: The promise and legacy of the early web
The web of the '90s and early '00s has inspired many nostalgic
projects, but it's not just the aesthetics that people miss.
This week, we take a look at the efforts to build a new, open, decentralized web. Canadian programmer Mike Killingbeck talks
about building RE-AOL, a re-creation of the beloved early-web
platform. Writer, COMPOSTmag editor and senior organizer with
DWeb projects at the Internet Archive Mai Ishikawa Sutton, and
Alicia Urquidi Díaz, metadata & data services librarian at
University of Toronto's Scholars Portal and volunteer archivist
at DWeb camp, discuss the ideas of the decentralized web.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-55-spark/clip/15941206- 554-the-promise-legacy-early-web
The first interview is with a fellow you has built RE-AOL - an
interface that emulates the look and feel of the original AOL environment.
Other interviews are about DWeb.
Throughout all interviews, there were elements about the BBSes
of retro days.
We didn't have AOL in Australia, so there isn't any nostalgia for it here. If anything, I remember people lamenting AOL and its users.
We didn't have AOL in Australia, so there isn't any nostalgia for it If anything, I remember people lamenting AOL and its users.
We did have the local variant.... There used to be rafts of CD's with their offerings on it. AOL Australia, sometime known as Australia Online.. not sure how long they lasted here though. While we didn't
have the original pre-internet AOL we certainly got it trying to be an internet provider.
Spec
Oh really? I never heard of it! I did find an "Australia Online", which still seems to exist, but is a regular ISP. There were ISP's with "accelerator" software which came on CD's. The ISP was with (Netspace) also had its own dialer which cames on its own CD. IT also had some dial up accelerator, which I think was just caching and compression and various other "tricks" to make web pages load faster.
Was the AOL back then different to Australia On Line today?
These were early dialup days.. There were ISP CD's everywhere. As you mention most tried to either hide the dialup information and settings, making it more easily digestable for the masses, or involved some kind
of compression or other jiggery pokery to make it at least appear
faster. For what its worth Netspace actually started in life as a BBS
run by a disabled kid. I forget what was "wrong" with him now...
something physical but he's s'posed to be a bright spark.
Was the AOL back then different to Australia On Line today?
Yes... it was a subsidiary of AOL, I don't recall what happened to it or over what kind of time frame now. Most of our early internet adopters were BBS users and the AOL package was to dumb and restrictive for them, at a time when there weren't enough new or "dumb" users in the market.
Australia Online today, is at least partially the remains of a company called ozonline. Oz was bought out by someone, and some years after AOL had thrown in the towel they adopted the Australia On Line moniker. In short the two aren't really related at all.
Spec
I joined up back in 2000, or 1999, and I got a CD with a dialer. But the dialer didn't connect to a specific portal. Many ISP's I recall did this.
At the time, Netspace was quite good (always was actually). It was
I don't recall anyone ever using the Aussie AOL myself. The Australia
I joined up back in 2000, or 1999, and I got a CD with a dialer. But dialer didn't connect to a specific portal. Many ISP's I recall did
You'd have to go back to about ~93-95 somewhere to see AOL offerings.
At the time, Netspace was quite good (always was actually). It was
Never used them myself, but I have a friend that has stuck with them
since they moved to the ISP model and did tech work for them in the past.
In the circles I moved, the CD's were pretty common, and I saw a lot of people use the 30 day free trial, but as mentioned their interface was heavily locked down, and restrictive. You could only connect with a Windoze system from memory, couldn't share the link on a network, were largely limited to the applications they provided. I don't recall
seeing anyone that actually signed on to continue using them beyond the trial period.
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