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Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“It’d be a weird sort of person who doesn’t willfully ignore reality”

Really?

You can remember good things about the past, but it you willfully ignore the most of what the past was, you’ll get something unrealistic. Like his notion that the internet was better in 1994.

By 1994, the World Wide Web had only existed for five years, HTML was published in 91 and the browser source code for the first web browser for public use in 1993.

You can like things about the past without saying things like “the Internet was better 30 years ago”, because obviously it wasn’t.

Some people like the Model T Ford and be history buffs and whatnot, and that’s perfectly fine. But who of them would say that a Model T is objectively better than a modern car — even a Tesla with all it’s problems? They can like the experience more than driving a regular car, but I’m sure they would never imagine actually traveling with one. It’s just a novelty. Nostalgia.

“No, you weren’t ‘Born in the Wrong Decade’” — Dropout

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