GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet
OPERATOR: KHALID ALSHAIKH STATION: 7Z1FP // SAUDI ARABIA Garden Eternal My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin. The internet was still a new thing in Saudi Arabia then — you went somewhere to use it. It was another two years before we had a connection at home, and by then the world had moved on to Windows XP.
- ▪OPERATOR: KHALID ALSHAIKH STATION: 7Z1FP // SAUDI ARABIA Garden Eternal My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin.
- ▪The internet was still a new thing in Saudi Arabia then — you went somewhere to use it.
- ▪It was another two years before we had a connection at home, and by then the world had moved on to Windows XP.
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| Original publisher | GE-97 — Garden Eternal |
| Canonical URL | https://ge97.com/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:41:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T17:25:42.671Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-02T17:25:42.671Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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OPERATOR: KHALID ALSHAIKH STATION: 7Z1FP // SAUDI ARABIA Garden Eternal My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin. The internet was still a new thing in Saudi Arabia then — you went somewhere to use it. The machine in front of us ran Windows 98. It was another two years before we had a connection at home, and by then the world had moved on to Windows XP. So Windows 98 is, for me, an era I met exactly once and never got to keep. That is the feeling this site is built around — not nostalgia for something I used for years, but for a doorway I walked through once. Most of that early web is genuinely gone. Not archived, not sleeping — deleted, with servers switched off and nobody keeping a copy.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GE-97 — Garden Eternal.
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