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Where can I find the old internet?
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Where can I find the old internet?

via Lobstersby kghose6h ago

It's a very poorly phrased question, sorry. The best I can do is this example: I'm reading a book called Phule's Company and got interested in a particular aspect of it and started to research the book then the author. Soon I was knee deep searching why he was in trouble with the IRS and, to my surprise, found answers (The IRS caught him for back taxes and he arranged for only his single-authored works to be garnished. So his later output was all jointly authored). During this lovely rabbit hole dig I ran into a page that seems to be a bit like a corner of a four dimensional object sticking out into our (modern internet) universe. It seems to be a copy of "Alt.Fan.Asprin" which is usenet, which came before my time I think. I can only see that page. I can't go to the top domain. It is a whole page full of lovingly organized minutiae about an obscure thing. I didn't post the address out of a peculiar fear of invading someone's peace. It's silly, I know. It reminded me of an internet that

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