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@apparentlymart @youronlyone @atomicpoet @pablowapsi

Yeah, I agree. There is connective tissue with that era here, but it's not the same.

And there's also some amount of nostalgia goggles about how viable a lot of it was and how suitable for mass adoption. A big difference between the protocols-based internet is that it was orders of magnitude smaller and more homogeneously tech-savvy users. But that's a different caveat, I think.