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I was there. “Followers” weren’t a thing on IRC, BBSes, Usenet, or anywhere on the early web. There were no influencers.
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I wish I was there.
I was a kid at the time, but a friend’s mom’s boyfriend ran a BBS and taught us all how to dial in, so my first exposure to the Internet was completely text-based. Pre-web, pre-AOL or Prodigy, on a B&W Macintosh SE with a 2400 baud modem. Downloading a low resolution picture took minutes.