Honestly, the internet was at its best when it was the fever dream of stoned, sexually frustrated grad students at Berkley. Infinite potential - it could’ve been anything. Could’ve. But wouldn’t. The real thing, after it became fully saturated in everyday American life, was always going to be some mediocre, watered down corporate cesspool of lowest common denominator, hyper-sanitized garbage. Because that’s what people like. They like safe, familiar, predictable, and uncomplicated. Well, most people.
Comment on the internet is worse.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year agoThe internet was better when it was Usenet and Gopher.
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The internet was better when it was a pair of tin cans and a string.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh sure, like that was an improvement over cave painting.
Jamie@jamie.moe 1 year ago
There have been examples that are effectively primitive shitposts found carved into walls in Pompeii. People never really change.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Forget shitposts, there were legitimate flame wars in Pompeii graffiti:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_graffiti
KingGordon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I definitely preferred oral history.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cave paintings is overrated. Hand shadow puppets on the cave walls were always more dynamic.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wi-Fi back then was using carrier pigeons.