I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.
Part of it might just be because that was the dawn of an era. Like when I was a kid the Iternet wasn't a thing. Then it became a hobby, now it is a part of life and capitlaism is working on making it as miserable as possible to use.
1.0 was fun because that was the era of webrings and you could find weird cranks. It's where I learned about anime for the first time.
A website I had once in like 1997 was just a repository of pictures from Star Trek. Not even good pictures, they were like 178x123 compressed jpegs of Patrick Stewart and people would email me relentlessly to add more pictures.
I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.
Part of it might just be because that was the dawn of an era. Like when I was a kid the Iternet wasn't a thing. Then it became a hobby, now it is a part of life and capitlaism is working on making it as miserable as possible to use.
1.0 was fun because that was the era of webrings and you could find weird cranks. It's where I learned about anime for the first time.
A website I had once in like 1997 was just a repository of pictures from Star Trek. Not even good pictures, they were like 178x123 compressed jpegs of Patrick Stewart and people would email me relentlessly to add more pictures.
See, objectively that sucked. However that is cool as hell.
Like, time cube guy would never survive in today's meme world. John Titor's AMA would flop.
We have an oversaturation of weird cranks online now. Now everyone is a crank, including all the libs on Hexbear like you and me
USENET and bulletin boards were better than 2.0 and they can fight me.