[HN Gopher] The Internet 1997 - 2021
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       The Internet 1997 - 2021
        
       Author : smusamashah
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-05-12 16:35 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.opte.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.opte.org)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | (2021) Really needs an update, as IPv6 in China picks up.
       | 
       | Also, can this data collection see enough of internal China
       | traffic?
        
       | zetalyrae wrote:
       | I read the title as an epitaph.
        
       | sedatk wrote:
       | Picking 1997 as a start date is interesting because that's when
       | ISP's had started serving Internet access to general public in
       | Turkey. The state had subsidized this by waiving phone-call costs
       | when dialing an ISP. That had caused sudden increase in
       | Internet's popularity. I remember staying online until morning
       | chatting on IRC, downloading stuff, browsing the web, playing
       | MUD. Great times.
        
         | IAmNotACellist wrote:
         | MUDs were awesome. Usenet too, IRC, then IM like ICQ and AIM.
        
           | sedatk wrote:
           | I first heard about ICQ in 1997 too (UINs were still 6 digits
           | at the time), but dismissed it because I thought it was
           | ridiculous to make yourself always available for messaging.
           | It didn't make any sense to me at all. But, the world had
           | other plans. The next year, when all of my friends were using
           | it, I could only get a 8-digit UIN.
           | 
           | Today, I can relate even more so than ever to my ICQ-skeptic
           | self from 1997 though.
        
             | AStonesThrow wrote:
             | My girlfriend and I pounced on ICQ in that year. I wound up
             | with UIN# 279866.
             | 
             | And then ICQ was invaded and subverted by Russia. I mean
             | pervasively. Just like LiveJournal was, later on.
             | 
             | I have come to believe that these were simply psyops that
             | were a bit less anticipated than TikTok was.
             | 
             | Imagine the power of Russian threat actors knowing when and
             | where every kid was online and wanting to chat, and who all
             | their friends were.
        
       | calini wrote:
       | The title made me think it's a type of eulogy to the pre-AI, pre-
       | ChatGPT Internet, but I was pleasantly surprised by pretty
       | colours instead!
        
       | andrehacker wrote:
       | Internet in 1997. That is when the web was small enough that you
       | did not need Google, you just used a 1200 page "internet yellow
       | pages" book [1]
       | 
       | Around that time the book form became untennable so they started
       | switching to CDROM versions [2]
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       | [1]
       | https://archive.org/details/luckmansworldwid0000unse_1997ed/...
       | [2] https://archive.org/details/new-riders-www-yellow-pages-1997
        
       | hous68 wrote:
       | Peacock Maps published a poster titled "The Whole Internet" with
       | data collected in 1999. I think they had a second one in the
       | early 2000s. This was the best I could find:
       | https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
        
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