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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Does it count as building the web if I worked manufacturing the AOL disks that plagued everyone's mailbox?

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry to say, that was more like the initial wave of enshitification.

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[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 7 points 3 weeks ago

I learned the first bits of HTML by editing an index.html file from an AOL disk and customizing it to be my own homepage. We didn't even had home internet back then. So yeah, it counts.

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