I have this working theory that the cloud to butt extension was the beginning of the downfall.
It was the point where the techies began to see the absurdity of the “just jam X into it” trend of technology development and got so frustrated at it they developed a childish (affectionate) extension to vent their disgust. Came out around 2013ish or so?
And over the past ~decade and a half, have we not seen that born out to the extreme? It’s around the time I felt myself start to get cynical and stop following tech news.
yamper@piefed.social 3 days ago
at one of my jobs a long time ago a copywriter had that extension on their work machine and published something like “upload files to my butt” to the official company site