adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?
Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.
I think in part because the early 90s Internet was before the majority of millennials were really heavily online. I’m an '88 millennial, and my childhood Internet was still early 2000s, mostly.
Stuff like IRCRizon and Limewire and Geocities and even Gaia Online over DSL, rather than BBSes over probably AOL dialup (I had that as a kid, but only as a very young kid, i.e. literal preteen.
Nyan cat and motivational poster memes are my golden age, not Usenet.
Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized
Because the idea is pushed on commercial platforms that would suppress the idea otherwise.
Why not 2012?
For Kony.
Ahhh, yeah. Usenet. nostalgic sigh
eleijeep@piefed.social 3 days ago
Jr4dv82FpNHLuCd.jpeg
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.