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What's your favorite memory from the early internet? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by 5redie8@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] tarneo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wasn't born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren't total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don't want sites like wikihow to come up... I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.