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What the Internet Was Like in 1998

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What the Internet Was Like in 1998

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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/SoftwareEnglish · 10 months ago

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It's 1998, the middle of the dot-com boom. Portals are advertising on TV, web developers are fighting browser companies, Microsoft and Amazon are gaining power, and Netscape is going open source.

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No way! Java applets are the future.

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