Comment on AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web

HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A day or two? The world was just objectively better in the 90s than this shit show...

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  • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You and I lived in very different 90s.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What was yours like?

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      • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As another commenter mentioned, the 90s as peak Reaganomics, the war on drugs were destroying poor neighborhoods, and prescription drug abuse was skyrocketing. Reaganomics were robbing the middle class of what little wealth they had. The war on drugs was ensuring that poor families were being destroyed. Prescription drug over prescription as feeding families directly to the war on drugs.

        That’s the 90s I remember. The entire system had been broken to make as many people as possible poor, and keep them there.

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      • demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Very different…

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    90s "prosperity" was entirely fake, still being driven by the "reaganomics" of the 80s, and were the peak before the long, drawn out collapse you're seeing now. 9/11 was the beginning of the end.

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    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah and now we don't even have fake prosperity. Just shit.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss AIM, met some really rad people from all over on there

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• wjrii@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The interface is super dated for today’s standards but I miss it so much.

  I still remember "AOL for DOS," which was really just the core functionality of the Windows alternative "GEOS," nerfed to only allow the AOL app to run. Teenage me had a guild on Neverwinter Nights and everything. Topped out at 8 people, IIRC.

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