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Another huge paradigm shift for the Net

4 August 2025

Hands up those who remember what the internet was like during the 1990s? Dial-up connections were all that most of us had available to us and they offered, at least initially, a mere 14.4Kbps of bandwidth. As a result of this limitation, webpages were simple and devoid of heavy graphics -- Xtra's initial website being the exception to that, even though it could take a minute or more to load the huge 135KB main image.

Platforms such as Geocities were the place to be and the closest thing we had to "social media" was usenet with its seemingly endless array of newsgroups.

Due to the limitations of early versions of HTML, even web-based forums were hard to find but that didn't matter because once GUI-based usenet newsreader software became popular usenet was made far more convenient and easy.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days? I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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