Today, life screeches to a halt when your wi-fi goes down, but just three short decades ago, the internet was a brand new thing that we had no idea we even needed. In this episode we look back at the origins of the internet and how we experienced it in its early days as young Generation X’ers.

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Show Notes

• Brief History of the Internet » www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/
• From dial-up to 5G: a complete guide to logging on to the internet » qz.com/1705375/a-complete-guide-to-the-evolution-of-the-internet/
• Who Invented the Internet? » www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet
• 17 Ancient Abandoned Websites That Still Work » www.mentalfloss.com/article/53792/17-ancient-abandoned-websites-still-work
• These 12 websites from the 90s show how useless the early internet was » timeline.com/useless-websites-betray-banality-748b8da4c977
• List of websites founded before 1995 » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995
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