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I don't miss the old Internet because it never went away, at least the part that interests me the most and that's communities. Forums are still online and they

I don't miss the old Internet because it never went away, at least the part that interests me the most and that's communities. Forums are still online and they seem to be doing just fine. Even IRC is still active. What I miss is contextual advertising. You went to a video games site and all ads where relevant. Ads used to be informative and interesting. These days they're irrelevant, annoying and indifferent. And I certainly don't miss the dial-up days when depending on the time of the day you might had to redial a dozen times to get a connection, and your bandwidth was a mere 28.8 Kbps which seems ridiculous by today standards.

Ididntdothis 7y ago
“What I miss is contextual advertising. You went to a video games site and all ads where relevant. Ads used to be informative and interesting. These days they're irrelevant, annoying and indifferent.” Totally agree. If I am on a site about kiteboarding I would actually appreciate to get ads about kiteboarding. This could probably be useful. But instead I am getting ads about toasters because I bought one last week.
brandon272 7y ago
> Forums are still online and they seem to be doing just fine. I wonder what the stats would be on the number of forums and overall forum activity today vs. 5, 10, or 15 years ago.
- stonogo 7y ago
  That would depend on your definitions. Reddit is #18 on Alexa's top sites list, and it's arguably nothing but forums.