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What websites still feel like the old internet? (lemmy.world)
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cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.

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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not a website, but since you mention BBSes...one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.

The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs.

While I suspect that most dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, and you can use a plain old telnet client to play...a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.

[โ€“] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I still mud on occasion. I used TinyFugue back when i started mudding in 88 or 89 (maybe lot was 89/90). I then used zMUD and later cMUD for years. Now I use MUDlet.