- cross-posted to:
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I think maybe back then we all knew it was going to become a corporate ad-ridden tracking nightmare in some capacity. That is why we remember it so fondly perhaps. Places like lemmy/wikis and the odd ole phpbb forum still running still give off at least a bit of the old internet vibe.
I wish that was the only problem with the Internet. I don’t think many people realized it would revive fascism and lead to the death of democracy.
Well, the cyberpunk authors seem to have noticed.
They knew
Yeah, social media has seemingly broken society.
And porn… definitely porn
Cat videos, porn and shitposts are the pillars holding the internet up. We lose one of them and it all crumbles.
Porn is the first canary to die.
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I remember asking this in a Discord server (ugh) a couple of years ago. The response? “Can you please refrain from asking such personal questions in this server.”
I miss the old days. Also fuck Discord.
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Not knowing the ASL prompt casts some doubt on your claim to remember the internet back then. Knowing someone’s age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn’t the aim.
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ASL was extremely useful. We only had usernames, no profile pictures or anything else. ASL is what you asked if you were chatting on quakenet or another server. Most of the time you knew the regulars on your channel. Often mods would ask your ASL and if it turned out later you were lying then you’d get kicked or muted.
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That seems pretty judgemental.
18/f/cali
400 years old / Unicorn / A Faeric Kingdom
I miss pre-normie internet.
Even in those times these things you discuss were going on in the internet. There’s always been idiots on the internet even in the early days like Curtis Yarvin.
Infinite scroll is suited for current events putting negative pressures against content creation. Content creation became an economy. Commoditization of content sucked the life out of it all.
Not just a tool for monitoring, but a tool for propaganda delivery and indoctrination for anyone with a message and cash to burn.
Proper journalism costs money and requires focused attention to consume and metabolize. Propaganda is shiny, sweet, goes down easy and it’s always free.
As a webdev I feel like the whole internet is dying. Everything is an app now, fully controlled by google, so privacy goes out the window, and none of it is searchable anyway as genAI made search engines toast. And everyone and their cat just seem go around blocking entire /8’s willy-nilly breaking the whole global network concept… Does anyone have any tips which career path to switch to?
I hear goat farming is a fantasy for many sysadmins to the point of being a meme.
Way smarter than cows, at least
Smarter than a lot of users too in my experience
Play our song just one more time
From cats to the collapse of society.
I think the cats are proud
Cats pushed it off the edge.
“It” being the health of our collective unconscious
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I really liked that guy in Band of Brothers.
Cause everything apart from western civilisation isn’t civilisation?
Every corner of the world is in a way suffering from war, corruption, or civil unrest, not just “The West”
