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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months agoWhat kind of revisionist bullshit is this?
Like, it’s almost always safe to write off anyone using “normies” but do you think 2002 was like in movies/TV?
“The net” wasn’t some secret thing, kids had been using it in school for over a decade.
I can’t tell if you weren’t born then or already 50 years old…
But wherever you’re getting your opinions on 2002 internet, it wasn’t first hand
It’s just nostalgia applied to the internet. Some people call it Eternal September. Everyone prefers what the internet was when they first discovered it and hate what it’s become since then. I remember the internet from 1996 most fondly. Many prefer it from the 80s or earlier 90s. This is no different from other media: music, TV, movies.
Of course this is separate from the real issue which is the consolidation and silo-ification of the modern web.
Yeah, the best is never going to be “now”, which is always drown in uncertainty and chaos. When you look back, everything looks safe and deterministic.
Punch the Monkey, Shake the Tree, Bonzi Buddy, flash animation, etc, etc.
You’re right, anyone who thinks 2002 was done golden age of the internet clearly wasn’t there.
As a 50-something, I can see the case for putting the “golden age” of the internet between the birth of Wikipedia in 2001 and Facebook in 2006.
Pre-Facebook as the endpoint, sure. But mid- to late-90s was pretty cool, too.
I’d expand it a bit further. Maybe 1999 to 2009. While Facebook did exist towards the end there, everyone’s grandmother wasn’t on it yet and they weren’t entirely intrusive and walled gardened. Forums still existed. Search engines still returned good results.
But it was the beginning of what would come. After 2009 it went downhill fast.
About the same time reddit starting making inroads and googles collusion
You’re totally right
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
As what was said below, it was kind of a golden age. It was usable by normal people but still pretty novel to most. And it was a while before corporations ruined it. Inlived through it so I can confirm it was better in most ways, besides speeds.