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Internet Artifacts

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681 points mikerg87 | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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lucyjojo ◴[15 May 25 07:16 UTC] No.43992607[source]▶
would be cool for it to be less west/america-centric.
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kome ◴[15 May 25 08:44 UTC] No.43993072[source]▶
I was thinking the same. this is a very american centric vision of the internet - especially when it comes to the websites mentioned
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47282847 ◴[15 May 25 10:35 UTC] No.43993593[source]▶
Works for me as a German, online since 96.

Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net!

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1. romanhn ◴[15 May 25 16:40 UTC] No.43996764[source]▶
I was online (in the US) since mid-90s as well, so definitely many of these artifacts resonate. That said, I was also a new transplant from Russia so was looking for anything I could find from my homeland - there was very little. I could probably count Russian-language websites (those I could find, anyways) on my fingers, and they all IIRC were university-based. I do believe there was a lively BBS tradition via FidoNet, but I never got into that. Circa '97 I was stoked to find a .wav fragment of a new song (still remember which one!), the first audio file I happened upon. By 2000 Russian-speaking web was huge and I was downloading music videos and full movies from FTP dumps.