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I'm so glad I got to live through the late 90s in my teens. It was truly a magical time with the advent of the modern internet. Looking at these pictures brings back some of that feeling and really reminds me of what a different place the internet and technology was back then. I still remember pulling up my first website with Netscape Navigator and a 14.4K dialup modem, the images rolling in bit by bit at what would be considered a truly glacial pace today. The realization that this digital canvas was mostly untouched and any of us could claim our own territory and make it into whatever we wanted. Just thinking of it makes me want to fire up the IDE and build something.

You can just smell the sweat, ozone, phenolic resin, and pizza grease on those photos, even after all these years.

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