The internet used to be fun
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The internet used to be fun
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#3I like looking at any site with a background that is not plain white.
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#4I miss when my bookmarks folder had a hundred entries in it instead of not needing bookmarks because there are only five websites.
One out of a dozen people is capable of producing something interesting on a consistent basis, yet we've become convinced that each of us is somehow deficient if we aren't capable of convincing a mass of strangers to engage with our thoughts and opinions. The dung beetle internet is just a bunch of people pushing bullshit around a table as if them touching the bullshit makes it more interesting for the next person who touches the bullshit.
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#5Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
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#6That's because it used to be young
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#7The internet is still fun.
I was on bulletin board systems pre-internet as a kid and spent too much time on the web in the late 90s. I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better.
Though I don't like social media much anymore and worry about the effect of screens on kids, I still love the internet and value what it makes possible.
I don't buy into these arguments of things used to be better. It's the same argument that older generations used with younger generations for music, cars, or clothes. The list goes on.
It's subjective. Technology enables new possibilities. Everything grows or dies and life moves on.
It's not that the internet used to be fun. It's that the internet changed and people tend to stay the same and not want things to change around them.
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#8The internet is still fun. I was on bulletin board systems pre-internet as a kid and spent too much time on the web in the late 90s. I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better. Though I don't like social media much anymore and worry about the effect of screens on kids, I still love the internet and value what it makes possible. I don't buy into these arguments of things used to be better. It'…
> flash to something better
Please enlighten me on something better. Nothing has enabled me to create in the same way of creativity and fun than Flash did; for me at least.
It was so practical that my mother made her first website in Flash.
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#9Everything is fun in the beginning. Then it gets commercialized and regulated and it's no longer fun.
Not trying to detract from your point, but the internet is still surprisingly unregulated, although I think we're at the early stages of seeing that change.
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#10The internet is still fun. I was on bulletin board systems pre-internet as a kid and spent too much time on the web in the late 90s. I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better. Though I don't like social media much anymore and worry about the effect of screens on kids, I still love the internet and value what it makes possible. I don't buy into these arguments of things used to be better. It'…
> flash to something better Please enlighten me on something better. Nothing has enabled me to create in the same way of creativity and fun than Flash did; for me at least. It was so practical that my mother made her first website in Flash.
Flash was a nice tool for creators and it enabled some interesting ways to present information. Flash gaming was a very interesting niche.
But on the whole I think it made the web worse. Lots of sites had microscopic text that you couldn't enlarge, no bookmarking pages or maintaining state, no right click, never ending security holes, invisible to search, inaccessible to those with vision or hearing assistants. The list goes on and on.