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That is strange. I'm only five years older but my memories extend way beyond 2007 (the analogous time window for me). My earliest memories of the internet are from 1999. I think Old Internet stopped being Old Internet for me around 2004 when I noticed that websites were completely different.

I do miss the older protocols. That shit was just about dead by the time I was old enough to use a computer, but they were still alive in recent memory at the time for me to experience them. I remember seeing Gopher links in 2001 and so on. I barely understood the purpose of FTP but I did go to FTP sites because I liked to look at folders and files online.