In 1995, commercialization, a swelling population, and the multimedia revolution began to shape Web 1.0 and the modern Internet. 1988�94 represent the final years of a much smaller, non-commercial, and text-dominated Internet.
The users of this era were not only programmers, physicists, and university residents�they were also tinkerers, early-adopters, whiz kids, and nerds. Their conversations and documents�valiantly preserved by digital archivists�are fractured across numerous services, increasingly offline-only, and incredibly voluminous (100GB+).
wwwtxt digs deep and resurrects the voices of these digital pioneers as unedited*, compelling, and insightful 140-character excerpts.
"Game developers could create new characters, new weapons and new game scenarios for existing software and then sell them separately. ☯93DEC"
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