“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