i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
Livejournal. It still exists but is pretty dead save for Russian people. I made the best friends of my life on there, and writing there was more helpful than any therapy.
I miss when normies and politicians were scared and confused by it so they left it alone. When computers in general required some skill and knowledge to use so there was a natural barrier to entry.
I miss listening to ska mp3s on Winamp while playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon on that new IMDb website and pausing briefly to chat with a friend through one of my many IM accounts logged into Trillian.
I don’t know if anyone told you this but 1900hotdog.com is run by ex-cracked people like Sean baby and Brockway. Their podcast is a jam. Go read the articles.
I just miss when you could search for things on search engines and find what you were looking for. I miss when putting operators, quotes, and parentheses actually changed the search results.
I miss when AI wasn’t shoved into EVERYTHING. I miss when the internet was usable to be honest.
IQ is a bad measure of intelligence or decency of a human being. Academic advantage doesn’t automatically make you smart, or nice to be around for that matter.
Agreed. And I only meant this symbolically. “The net was better off when nearly all people there had a minimum of education and discipline.” - Better?
Back then, if someone produced stupid ideas like they pop up today by the millions a day in X and Facebook, you got properly booed, and people learned to avoid this one source of trouble.
I didnt start really using social media until I was 15 (2015) (not including when I briefly used FB when I was 13 and having an account on the official Warrior Cats message boards when I was ~12), but even then it seems like people were a lot more chatty? I feel like I got more positive comments on my shitty art from that time than I sometimes do nowadays.
And also the fact that so many people nowadays share their full name how they look irl. I’d much rather keep that shit private unless it’s someone I trust and seems especially dangerous nowadays, and now there’s a worrying amount of minors doing it.