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I like to do that to see what they are now, if anything. It always amazes me how much of the early personal computer world was run out of someone's spare room.

I like to do that to see what they are now, if anything. It always amazes me how much of the early personal computer world was run out of someone's spare room.

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Yes! Computer magazines and comic books are great for it. Also old shareware authors would often include their home address for registrations. I used to think those were business offices, but after I checked some more recently on google street view, they revealed to be just random houses.

I have a small collection of old gaming magazines from the early internet era, and almost every time I try pulling up the website from an ad, it's gone. They say data is immortal once it's online, but that's not as true on long timescales.

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A lot of the early internet is just gone, wiped out by bigger players.