The Internet we grew up with is dying. I wish we could go back to dial-up days.
The internet some of us grew up with has been gone a long time. Even back in the early days of AOL/Yahoo chat rooms, people were inappropriate with children though.
Omegle 2009-2023
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#923This is like suing Google because a scammer used Gmail
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God, they're complaining about newposters all the way back in 2007. Is the problem really Eternal September or is it just "kids these days"? Also Leif K-Brooks is a thoughtful person, and it bleeds into his posts I don't know why exactly I think a one on one chat system would be different from an imageboard. When one makes a post on an image or discussion board, I think one does take into account that his words are g…
Eternal September is an observable phenomenon whenever a new demographic in a community outstrips the old guard. This is fundamentally different than "kids these days", though you may find some overlap.
It's either growing and suffering from eternal September, or shrinking and a dying echochamber.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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The public internet has always been garbage dude. Ever since eternal september in 93. The trick is a good filter. It seems like you lucked into some good filters in the past, but forgot to rotate them when they stopped working
Humor me. Recommend a filter for me to get me started. It doesn't even have to be that good and if I'm disappointed I won't be able to reply anyway.
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#926This is devastating. I have so many fond memories of meeting fellow weirdos over text. The days where StumbleUpon always took you somewhere exciting, cool, beautiful, interesting, funny, or novel. Where you looked at what people did with The Web 2.0 and only marveled at the possibilities of what could come. Truly feels like the death of one of the old guard, a Usenet-of-the-2010s. I even used it during pandemic times…
I didn’t use Omegle much, but I actually met my now wife on there. We used the text only thing where a third person suggests a topic. Must’ve talked for a good 2 hours on there before exchanging informations, I shudder thinking that even the smallest glitch could have changed my life so drastically. We met 11 years ago on the platform, a completely random fluke. And while I haven’t really used Omegle in a long time,…
I happened to realize today that many if not all results we observe today is outcome of one or the other probable event in the past.
How often we analyze past near miss situations, or car accidents that did happen and change lives.
History is a chain of events, some of which are so prominent that they covered in books or passed through generations as tales.
Recent Same as Ever by Morgan Housel conveys in the first chapter literally this statement: one random thing can change entire history of humankind, especially in wars.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#927Earlier quoted context omitted.
God, they're complaining about newposters all the way back in 2007. Is the problem really Eternal September or is it just "kids these days"? Also Leif K-Brooks is a thoughtful person, and it bleeds into his posts I don't know why exactly I think a one on one chat system would be different from an imageboard. When one makes a post on an image or discussion board, I think one does take into account that his words are g…
> newposters all the way back in 2007 My recollection is that newposters was coined around 2007 for everyone who joined after the Habbo raids that had made /b/ much more popular. These newposters from Habbo were "ruining" the site.
One night, visiting a friend, I overheard his kid complaining about the first big Habbo raid and how these people were everywhere. I slid into one of his schoolbook's a block-printed note reading POOL'S CLOSED. He never knew it was me.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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exactly. think about your existence. You wouldn't exist if your parents hadn't met and reproduced, and if their parents hadn't met and reproduced, and so on until you get to our monocellular ancestor. Everyone here is the product of a very long, unbroken line of ancestry spanning back billions of years! If any of those ancestors had not chosen to reproduce, you don't exist. It's mindblowing to me. Actually one of the…
I had a friend who would say the following the middle aged female friends who didn’t have daughters: Did your mom have a daughter? Female answers “yes” Did her mom have a daughter? Yes Did her mom have a daughter? Yes This lineage of course extends beyond even human history back to Proto life forms. And then you end it with “after all that, you’re ending the legacy by not having a daughter”.
Are they still friends?
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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Ahh the first days of Web 2.0. Reminds me of http://ytmnd.com You’re the man now, dog!
This place. So bizarre. I loved it so much back in the day. Especially showing friends the latest weird thing I found.
This was the prototype of the concept that became Vine, and thus TikTok.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
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> Omegle, as one of the last places that didn't tie your activity to a real identity, inherently limited the possible harm. I'm not sure about that, hasn't omegle been using p2p all this time? People can easily see the other person's IP, and even be doxed. A site that doesn't even attempt to preserve this basic private data can't be considered anonymous IMO
IP alone makes it fairly tricky for non-state actors to identify someone, just roughly geolocate them. Good for freaking out people that don't know how the web works, but not useful for much more. The flip side is that p2p means that nobody is snooping in on those video conversations. Omegle couldn't spy on it's users once they had entered a video chat. It was also fairly easy to see how they implemented the monitori…
Are you sure about that? In the text they say they did moderation. So how could they do that without seeing your feed?