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[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Haha, the internet did not fit on a 1.44mb floppy in 1998. Curious to know what was on this‽

1998 was well into the CD-ROM era and the internet was full of .mp3s and .isos by then.

[–] blargerer@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trans-Equity is apparently a real estate brokerage in Florida. Maybe a backup of their website?

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've heard from a friend that the best place to hide porn is the most boring sounding folder ever....

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I always hid mine in a folder in My Documents. I always named the folder something that sounds like you could fuck up the PC if you mess with it. Usually FAT32_j2431z. Then I'd change the folder icon to something computery

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Homework folder?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I assumed it was the configuration to set a computer up to connect to the internet.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

If it’s not meant to be funny, it might be a site index.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My Star Trek GeoCities website in 1996 had so many images on it you would have needed a CD-R to back it up.

In 1998, there was so much media (Images, music, shareware, games, even video) on the net it would have taken a server farm to make a copy.

[–] CasualPenguin@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

So many dancing Spidermans

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trans Equity?!?! The internet is WOKE! reeeeeee

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And of course the disk is black! Woke-ass libs.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

#blackdisksmatter

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is why I always print it out.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I knew people who would print out stuff from the internet and bring it to work to share with everyone. Without someone's email address, that was really the only way to share it, since nobody had mobile phones at the time, and even the few phones that existed didn't have Internet.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I remember printing off cheats for my PS1 games because it was easier than writing it all down to take to my bedroom to use them!

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I’m printing this post and comments so I can remember them later

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

I deleted the internet, I'm sorry

[–] sp451@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What a scam. Everybody knows what the internet looks like https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This is funny, but also, fuck Graham Linehan.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

My first thought too lol

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Holy shit that company is still there and everything

Those were the days. All human knowledge (1.2 MB) easily fit on a 3.5 inch floppy boi.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Tim and Eric actually did a sketch based on this idea lmao

https://youtu.be/Y5BZkaWZAAA