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It's from 2021, it was a different era. I hope it's fading away.
by sorenjan 2y ago
It's from 2021, it was a different era. I hope it's fading away.
- devin 2y agoIt greatly predates 2021.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoI would dearly love to return to even the 2021 era of the internet in general. 1999 would be ideal, actually. But I'd settle for most anything up to 2012 or so.
- pjc50 2y agoI've been trying to work out what the end date of the good internet was, and if there was a trigger event, and I'm starting to think it was somewhere between Tahrir Square (2011) and Euromaidan (2014); once the political internet became really effective, it had to be countered by those in power.
- sharpshadow 2y ago2011 was the release year of bootstrap so that would fit quite well.
- interestica 2y agoAsteroid 2024 YR4 (the one that might hit Earth in 2032) also made close passes in 2012, 2016, and 2020. …
- gs17 2y agoIf only it fading away didn't mean instead of being able to treat Twitter as support there's no place to get actual support from a lot of companies. E.g. Google sent me a promotion for a Nest camera if I bought their subscription, and instead of a camera I've had their "support" read the same script about how they'll fix it within a few days since November. At least if I used Twitter as support, other people would see the issue that didn't get resolved.
- DoughnutHole 2y agoYea now we just have people only getting help with issues with Stripe when an exec has to respond to them making a stink about it on Hacker News.