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_stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s called the i2p network

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  • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct. Come to I2P and experience 90s internet again. It’s slow but has character, if by character you understand I mean anonymous Geocities.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Honest question: is there also a boatload of sketchy stiff to avoid if you just wanted to have a nice SFW time? Early 2000s internet before Google indexed everything had some pockets of unsavory.

      Also, is it just a bunch of middle aged dudes in mostly text forums? That’s like 85% of my experience with 90s internet.

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      • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I haven’t stumbled upon much sketchy stuff, you’d need to know where it is and discovery is still fairly manual though indexing services exist. Of course you need to find those services in the first place…

        Anonymity is more of a focus than 90s internet, so it’s hard to tell who anyone really is but you’re probably right. There are active Russian and Iranian dissident text forums though.

        However, for me, it’s the people just hosting personal websites e.g., a darkwave radio site, or a cryptography blog. Obviously the barrier to entry means it leans fairly techy.

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      • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        To avoid? Remember when you had to go to Yahoo! Directory to find the few websites which exist? It’s like that.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So it’s slow, barely contains anything, and near useless. Got it.

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• ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  With black jack and hookers?

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• thenoirwolfess@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m locked in a contract with a company that enshittified their services a little and assigns restrictive IPs to non-Business customers that have been using port 25, but am switching to a more libre ISP as soon as it ends. I basically snoozed and didn’t realise the ISP hadn’t been rated the best for several years.

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