I’ve been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?
Yes. When you got to Yahoo and just started to click through the directory pages it was an experience filled with wonder. It was, as someone else already mentioned, much slower.