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Is this a joke? I mean, it's buzzfeed, so it obviously is, but seriously? That internet didn't die at all! You're looking at the same thing with different comp
by esotericn 7y ago
Is this a joke? I mean, it's buzzfeed, so it obviously is, but seriously?
That internet didn't die at all! You're looking at the same thing with different company names! Myspace and Facebook are the same thing with a different skin.
I figured this would be an article about like, vBulletin forums, IRC, tilde pages, something like that.
They all still exist, you're just not using them, why don't you start?
- Pigo 7y agoI do pine for the days when the Undernet or Dalnet was bustling with activity. I'm always looking for a server worth hanging out on. I'm glad Freenode is doing good, but it's people working. That said, this article was exactly what I'd expect for an article from Buzzfeed.
- hydgv 7y agoI'm so looking forward to that one comment that always appears "no acshually this is buzzfeednews and they are great and they've won 1337 pulitzer prizes" Edit: oh there it is, hanging from my grandparent
- samb1729 7y agoGot you covered buddy
- Pigo 7y agoI just read that comment before seeing yours, ha. Well they both seem to work the election of Trump into every article. You can't drum up traffic and ad dollars without adding that into the conversation.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoYou worked that into your comment, but ctrl+f for "trump" yields zero results on the article in question. Are you intentionally being this inflammatory?
- throwno 7y agoExactly. IRC and Usenet is still there, but people just prefer trolling on Twitter and Reddit.
- icedchai 7y agoMuch of it comes down to ease-of-use / accessibility. My 70 year old parents can use reddit. They could not use usenet.
- hydgv 7y agoYou could create a usenet client with all the accessibility features that you wanted. Reddit might be accessible, but that's because they want it to be accessible. You rely on them doing you a favour.
- icedchai 7y agoYou could, and Dejanews / Google kind of did, but it still never gained critical mass...
- samb1729 7y agoBuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won many journalism awards as you can see on their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News I do agree that reusing the name must surely do their image significant harm.
- mashby 7y agoThis is often repeated, but...Can you name a large news source that has not won a "journalism awards"?
- chaosite 7y agoGawker?
- samb1729 7y agoI'm not attempting to establish credibility for BuzzFeed News beyond the statement of fact I made the my first comment. BuzzFeed itself doesn't win journalism awards, regardless of how you useful a signal you consider those, because their listicle stuff isn't journalism. I have no interest in debating the nature of BuzzFeed News's journalism beyond making this distinction clear.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoFox News has zero Peabody Awards. I can't find anything on Yahoo News, Facebook, or Twitter winning pulitzers. Breitbart has zero pulitzer awards.
- Whatarethese 7y agoWhat a generic comment with no research behind it.
- protonimitate 7y agoSure, but this article is hardly news. It's hardly even worthy of a tweet. The "old internet" is MySpace and Friendster? Really? "Click share if you think Google and Facebook are bad" pretty much summarizes the contents of the article.
- yifanl 7y agoBy the nature of network effects, if no one else is using them, then no one will use them. (Personally, I do still use old-school forums and IRC, but less frequently then I used to, its just far too convenient to use something like Discord instead)
- esotericn 7y agoHeh. To me discord is far less convenient. It's a fancy webpage that takes ages to load and bifurcates my chat experience across another platform. YMMV I guess. It's probably more convenient to someone that has never used a chat client before? I suppose this is how I end up siloed off with all the old fogies. :D
- sverige 7y agoI just gave up on discord last night. Third or fourth time I came across a link to what sounded like an interesting server, then couldn't log in with existing credentials. I want to like it and use it, but frankly it's very tiresome to get going. I'm not clicking on the link inviting me to your server any more. Have fun with those who fight through the silly spinning spider thing.