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Flaming hot take: the Internet was better in the past because only developed nations had access to it. As soon as mobile phones lowered the barrier to entry and
by JasserInicide 4y ago
Flaming hot take: the Internet was better in the past because only developed nations had access to it. As soon as mobile phones lowered the barrier to entry and BRIC countries and the like had easy access to it, the quality of everything plummeted. The amount of bad actors that flooded into the system was astronomical.
- teddyh 4y agoWhen spam started to flood the early internet, it wasn’t from the BRIC countries.
- WillPostForFood 4y agoNot blaming BRIC countries here, but the really intense spamming started post-early internet. You can see the spike up in the early around 2003-4: https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/ https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/
- teddyh 4y agoThose graphs are way too late. I was specifically thinking of the wave starting with the Canter and Siegel “Green Card” spam in 1994.
- munificent 4y agoHot countertake: No nation has a monopoly on jackasses and the majority of problems in my life caused by misinformation on the Internet came from my fellow Americans.
- unknownaccount 4y agoFinally someone said it. This is why I’m not keen on IPv6.