And by internet, I mean the fully fleshed out one

define fully fleshed out

with social media

Finding shit by accident on AskJeeves was a different era lmao

well we had chat rooms and shit

no faceberg or myspace though

Right, it was just a loose selection of websites

More like a digital library than anything at that time

I'm sure you get my point though

well the main difference, beyond sites being simpler and primitive, were the quality and kind of person who was online i think

I think a majority of millennials didn't use IRC

probably

but the problem still kinda remains.. if you take 96 as the cut off for instance, someone born in 95 has a much more similar life experience to someone born in 97 than in 1981

right, I don't really use years though

fair enough

the official categories do use years though

well 'official' i should say lol

Well they're dumb boomers

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fuck, the temp dropped outside lol

https://github.com/agilgur5/DeChat

Check this out yall

is this fedbait or based?

based

lol

based uncle ted

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

Interesting, this one has a two day history for messages on the network

there are a lot of projects in this area

Not as much as you'd think

I've been trying to find something with the usefullness of Discord, but serverless

gl lol

Most require a server, or the messages are only received when you're online

irc has the same limitation

you get around this by having what's called a bouncer

it's basically just always online

With this bitmessage thing, the users online act as the 'bouncer' and hand off stored data as new users log on

unfortunately anything where the user stores and passes along information provided by [other] users is going to open you up to legal problems

even though i think if you actually apply it fairly, such instances would fall under the communications decency act protections for providers of a web service

`Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"`

No different than shit posted here being on your computer