I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could browse via lynx. Soon enough I got a PPP connection and then Mosaic/Netscape 1.0. However everything after javascript shipped (let alone CSS) is new new new. I'd almost go as far as saying if it doesn't have a tilde in the URL it's not old web... almost...
I’m vaguely remembering tilde username for our public html folders. Was that old Apache behavior?
And now I wonder if Apache is even still common. I spent so much time fiddling with apache configs.
It was at least an option with Apache. I read about it while setting up Apache on Windows XP and thought, who would possibly want that feature?
That’s the prehistoric web or maybe that’s BBSs…
Correct. Don't get me started on Fidonet, as a young computer nerd in the 80s before even dial-up internet was available, that was a portal to the global internet that my adolescent shit-posting self definitely didn't deserve.