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IME the 90s Internet and networks had more brazen creeps ("ASL"), lots of naivety, scams, and bullying was still bad. Ads were there very early and quickly esca
by paulryanrogers 4y ago
IME the 90s Internet and networks had more brazen creeps ("ASL"), lots of naivety, scams, and bullying was still bad. Ads were there very early and quickly escalated to loud, animated, and pop-up hell.
I didn't notice much optimism, rather pessimism that people continued to look down on 'nerds' and the annoying and slow Internet. Many of us were mocked for spending so much time inside staring at screens wired to the wall. Normal people didn't see its benefits, and many of us nerds used it mostly for gaming and to escape our limited friend options IRL.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoAre you saying it was more Deep Space 9 than Next Generation?
- paulryanrogers 4y agoCan't think of any ST show comparison which fits. Though if you spoke of ST among my IRL friends in the 90s then you'd be as openly mocked as admitting to sitting at a computer for 2+ hours.
- DoesntMatter22 4y agoI'm talking about optimism in society in general. You have a super overly negative view. Generally in the 90's if you did anything with computers you were seen as a genius. The internet really wasn't annoyingly slow until close to 2000 where you were trying to watch video and download mp3s. It was really only bad when compared retrospectively.