Comment on Trust issues
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months agoBack when people just made stuff on the internet for shits and giggles.
As opposed to?
Comment on Trust issues
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months agoBack when people just made stuff on the internet for shits and giggles.
As opposed to?
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For likes, subs, your personal data, or advertising eyeball time?
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It was a time with a lot of “you’re the 10th million visitor to this website, you’re a winner” and “this is how to get a bigger dick” popups, and no adblockers.
People always pine for the “good old days” without realising they’re just remembering (or imagining) things with a huge bias.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah if you were a n3wb bitxh and not a 1337 h4x0r like me.
The internet was better 25-30 years ago. No rose glasses needed. It was the wild west, and now we’re just hopping from walled garden to walled garden.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“The internet was better in 1994, and I’m definitely not affected by nostalgia.”
Oh cmon. That’s peak nostalgia with no care to the realities.
The average person wouldn’t last 3 minutes using a 14kbit modem trying to load some text based site which has a few hundred users.
What you’re trying to do is basically the “I was there 3000 years ago” meme.
But I too, was there when it waa written.
And it definitely wasn’t better.
Also you’re on the fediverse complaining about this. The very idea already disproves your “walled garden” argument.
Not to mention the tor boards and telegram groups etc, which are definitely used at least as much as the internet was in 1994. Being on forums back then was probably more niche than having some combat footage and drug selling telegram groups. Groups where people aren’t censored or limited while also having the tech and connection speed to instantly share high definition video from all around the world. Wirelessly.
If you managed to actually film something miraculous in 1994, or irrefutable evidence of some criminal activity by the police for example, where would you share it? You’d have to either make physical copies and hope the pirating network can get it out somewhere, as tv stations won’t be showing your thing. It’s not practical trying to actually share the video online in any shape or form. So you’d end up writing about it, hoping someone would believe your fantastical claims.
Which wouldn’t happen.
No, the internet was not better 30 years ago. Guess you can feel like it’s worse today if you use it like a b451c 81tch
antidote101@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unsurprisingly people don’t desire to revisit the bad aspects of the past… It would be a bit odd if someone was like:
I mean, what kind of person are you imaging?
… that’d be a weird kind of person no?
It doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten those things, it’s just not what people were talking about.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“It’d be a weird sort of person who doesn’t willfully ignore reality”
Really?
You can remember good things about the past, but it you willfully ignore the most of what the past was, you’ll get something unrealistic. Like his notion that the internet was better in 1994.
By 1994, the World Wide Web had only existed for five years, HTML was published in 91 and the browser source code for the first web browser for public use in 1993.
You can like things about the past without saying things like “the Internet was better 30 years ago”, because obviously it wasn’t.
Some people like the Model T Ford and be history buffs and whatnot, and that’s perfectly fine. But who of them would say that a Model T is objectively better than a modern car — even a Tesla with all it’s problems? They can like the experience more than driving a regular car, but I’m sure they would never imagine actually traveling with one. It’s just a novelty. Nostalgia.
“No, you weren’t ‘Born in the Wrong Decade’” — Dropout