If you think the massive increase in people on the internet between 2010 and now hasn’t noted a dramatic downshift in many ways then I don’t know.
Yes there’s more things but there’s also 1000x more layers of garbage.
The internet in 90s to early 2000s sucked in a lot of ways as well but it did feel like you were dealing with people more than walking memes.
An era when most people not on it were filtered out since they didn’t “get it” or thought it was a waste of time or were too stupid or young to figure out how to use a PC so didn’t bother.
Yes I do miss those days for a lot of reasons. Those times were way more genuine. And I’m sorry if you didn’t get to live through them. A lot of special things about that time were lost. Less ubiquitous platforms and such along them where it didn’t cultivate every type of person on the planet. Game communities were better too since they were smaller and it wasn’t a constant state of audience capture by studios chasing what the masses want. Things were more niche.
There were many many small things that made it nicer in many ways. But no I wouldn’t go back because fuck ISDN and slow-ass shitternet and difficulty finding movies. It was still a special time though.
Fact is internet is mostly bots now and most of the internet usage is like 5 web pages. There is so much cool shit online but you have to go looking for it.
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u/shuky2017 Nov 09 '24
Bro do you think people that were online in the early 2000 liked early 2010 people?