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Sorry for the pedantry. I agree wholeheartedly with the thought of your comment but your timeline rubs me off. > Internet was still an alien thing to a lot of

Sorry for the pedantry. I agree wholeheartedly with the thought of your comment but your timeline rubs me off. > Internet was still an alien thing to a lot of people throughout the 2000s I agree but... > and if you think about it - that’s only 14 years ago 14 years ago is 2010 which is no longer 2000s. It could be the end of 2000s, but that's pushing it. And it bothers me because by 2010 I don't think the Internet was "new" or "alien" at the time to anyone other than business bureaucrats or out-of-touch politicians[1]. The algorithmic news feed has been recognized as a problem by then[2]. I'd say 2010 was the time when the Internet was starting to become ubiquitous, the transition period between the good old days and the age of walled-garden platforms we have to day. For more context, the iPhone---whose form factor, at least, put the Internet in everyone's pockets---was released in 2007 and in 2010 Google released the Nexus line for Android. [1] In 2013, Angela Merkel was ridiculed for calling the Internet "uncharted territory". [2] https://archive.is/m8pjM https://archive.is/m8pjM Article written in 2017 but the pertinent part is "Facebook says its own researchers have been studying the filter bubble since 2010".

tsavo 2y ago
While message boards and irc still exist and could be considered "echo chambers", social media began kicking off in mid-2000s with their algorhythmic echo chambers. Also around this time period was growth in blogging, further pulling people away from homepages to "personal pages". Even in the days of Geocities, many people would hit a homepage prior to potentially visiting their own site. And while smart phones did play a role in the trend, changes to web browsers on PC devices with their own "start pages" with news/content operating as pseudo-homepages further contributed to the shift for non-smartphone users.

tsavo 2y ago

While message boards and irc still exist and could be considered "echo chambers", social media began kicking off in mid-2000s with their algorhythmic echo chambers. Also around this time period was growth in blogging, further pulling people away from homepages to "personal pages". Even in the days of Geocities, many people would hit a homepage prior to potentially visiting their own site. And while smart phones did play a role in the trend, changes to web browsers on PC devices with their own "start pages" with news/content operating as pseudo-homepages further contributed to the shift for non-smartphone users.