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Someone once pointed out to me that Transformers cartoons are essentially toy commercials. I know this now but my twelve year blissfully did not. So maybe you a
by magpi3 5y ago
Someone once pointed out to me that Transformers cartoons are essentially toy commercials. I know this now but my twelve year blissfully did not. So maybe you are just referring to the loss of innocence that comes from biting a fruit from the tree of knowledge, because corporations have always been scamming to separate you from your money.
- hunterb123 5y agoThe "old internet" was before commercialization so you're supporting the argument it was better before. It was good because it didn't boil down to a few utility sites. Everything was creative, not corporate.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoMaybe, but it also really sucked. You could only get to it from a desktop when the phone line wasn't tied up. The best possible connection was crazy slow. There would be days-long outages for no apparent reason, with no way to figure out what was going on. There was no wikipedia, no stack overflow, no GitHub, no cloud hosting, no readthedocs, no dockerhub. It was bad.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoIt honestly amazes me that we wrote so much code before Stack Overflow existed. Imagine writing a web browser when the only reference you have on the HTTP and HTML standards is a book. Someone had to write the first TCP/IP implementation without the help of the Internet. How was the first debugger written without a debugger?