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ketobeejay | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Digg? Hell, I remember the old usenet boards, chat rooms on Excite.com, and using ICQ, all way before any other social media.
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maven leo | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Woah, heydays of the decentralized internet
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maven leo | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I have faint memories of these things. Was very young

But these were the days of a truly decentralized Internet before centralisation and self-broadcasting took over

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ketobeejay | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I was almost 25 lol
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maven leo | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 These were the real fun days of the Internet
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ketobeejay | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They really were! https://media0.giphy.com/media/Rb6unv0ddpPCo/giphy.gif
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maven leo | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't remember using excite.com ... I remember Yahoo chatrooms, ICQ, instant messengers like MSN
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telluride | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 ICQ…
Haha
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mleku | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 i had several dates back in the turn of the century thanks to icq :)