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Remember when the Internet was new and no-one believed anything on it? Then, learning what to believe became a marketable skill for many people? Then society
by RC_ITR 3y ago
Remember when the Internet was new and no-one believed anything on it?
Then, learning what to believe became a marketable skill for many people?
Then society fundamentally changed because not everyone learned that skill?
This is just that again. Gen Z will joke about their millennial/Gen X bosses believing anything the AI tells them and it will probably lead to some sort of mainstream conspiracy that Jackie O herself is running it or something (to those reading: please don't take this idea)
- grugagag 3y ago> Remember when the Internet was new and no-one believed anything on it? Is this true?
- sanderjd 3y agoYes. "Anyone can write anything on there! There's no way to trust it." About halfway through high school they started letting us cite websites, and it was a big deal and considered very forward thinking.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI remember my parents and teachers indicating this, and me and my friends thinking “then why do they trust TV, books, etc.?”
- wewtyflakes 3y agoThis is true; it was a almost a meme before memes existed, as to say "I saw it on the internet so it must be true!", as a way to teasingly highlight how non-credible it was seen at the time.
- klyrs 3y ago"Kilroy was here" was a meme before "meme" was coined. I don't think the phrase "before memes existed" has meaning.
- wewtyflakes 3y agoSure. Maybe better if I qualified it with "as they exist as we know them today"
- repler 3y agoyes. I remember boomers shitting on Wikipedia around 2004, but fast forward to present day and the same people would cite it.
- wombatpm 3y agoOn the internet no one knew you were a dog according to the Net Yorker cartoon