What Facebook Would Have Looked Like in the Early ’90s [Video]

I like getting nostalgic for the old internet. It was slower, less organized, and a lot more DIY, and at one point you couldn’t even illegally download songs from it. But somehow it was just wha...
What Facebook Would Have Looked Like in the Early ’90s [Video]
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  • I like getting nostalgic for the old internet. It was slower, less organized, and a lot more DIY, and at one point you couldn’t even illegally download songs from it. But somehow it was just what I needed back then, back before cat memes and spiderman threads, when the shrill whine, crack, hiss, and chirp of my modem would propel me into a solid half hour of watching hamster gifs dance in place to a sped-up Disney’s Robin Hood theme.

    I even like getting fake nostalgic for the fake old internet. An apparently so do the fine folks at Squirrel-Monkey‘s incredibly retro page. There, they’ve partnered up with the International Guild of DOS Users to reimagine what a lot of our most popular social and search platforms would look like if they were invented in the ’80s and ’90s.

    It’s definitely worth a look. Check out the video about a new website called The Facebook, below. It has amazing production values. Squirrel-Monkey is available on the World Wide Web at the Universal Resource Locator (URL): http://www.squirrel-monkey.com. The IGODU is available On line at http://www.igodu.org.

    [H/T: Gizmodo]

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