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I don't know, I came to the internet (IRC/News) ~1990 and the WWW ~1993, when I wrote my first "homepage". I lived through the dotcom boom ~2000 with my own sta
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
I don't know, I came to the internet (IRC/News) ~1990 and the WWW ~1993, when I wrote my first "homepage". I lived through the dotcom boom ~2000 with my own startup.
Sure internet was great back then, but I find it great today too. I create my own content on the internet just like 10 or 20 years ago on my website. I talk to people who send me an email about content on my website. I meet great people on LinkedIn.
I'm not on Facebook and practically left Twitter.
I assume like in other contexts people imagine a past that never existe
- j45 3y agoIt's great in a different way. Old ways are always dying and new ways are always emerging. Change just has to be good for the many, and not the few.
- Xelynega 3y agoI don't think the fact that communities like this still exist is a point against them. They state in the article that they are also involved in communities they would consider "old internet" using modern tools. I think their thesis was that as a whole the internet has become a more shit experience for the people using it. If you sampled 1000 random internet users decades ago they would have an experience closer to yours, if you did the same today I think it would be a lot "shittier"(to a lot of internet ysers, Facebook/twitter is "the internet")