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 8 months agoThe internet was better when it was Usenet and Gopher.
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The internet was better when it was a pair of tin cans and a string.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh sure, like that was an improvement over cave painting.
Jamie@jamie.moe 8 months ago
There have been examples that are effectively primitive shitposts found carved into walls in Pompeii. People never really change.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Forget shitposts, there were legitimate flame wars in Pompeii graffiti:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_graffiti
KingGordon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I definitely preferred oral history.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cave paintings is overrated. Hand shadow puppets on the cave walls were always more dynamic.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wi-Fi back then was using carrier pigeons.