For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.
I can’t remember. Did it make pterodactyl noises or is that just faxes?
I was taught to cite websites by using the date the page was updated. Now I'm lucky if web pages even have a date on them.
Either that, or the page says that it's been updated in the last month, but the content is about how to connect to the World Wide Web '(WWW)' with a free AOL floppy disc
This shit's still true. I bet you're taking me seriously as you read this and everything.
I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.
This was back in the early 2000s...
Don't share your personal information online.
Yeah that's definitely not being followed anymore.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln
Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.
On the Internet I grew up on, pretty much anything was ok except to discuss (or even speculate about) the real-world identities of users who didn't very openly disclose them.
Now many people think the latter is ok.
That's crazy. Makes a lot of sense.
I always tried to be the "shockingly nice person to game with" whenever I could. It was a lot more fun than just being mean to people for no reason.
I never understood that impulse to scream epithets over xbox live or whatever.
Gmail is super annoying at this, there is no way to automatically turn this off. I just have to delete the ellipsis every damn time
I like to think I'm reasonably intelligent but whatever the heck Gmail does with its reply "conversation" order absolutely bamboozles me. It decides to just hide messages in the middle seemingly at random too, and gives them all reply buttons.
Agh!
I think it's fine for email, better even. Unless there's a list of questions or something. In forums and lemmy I don't see it at all.
Came here to say that. It actually predates common internet usage - Fidonet was a much bigger thing through the 80s and early 90s than emails, and BBS forums used it to distribute messages.
Properly quote only what you are replying to. Quote a line, reply to it. Repeat on multiple points.
Then wait a few days for a reply, of course, unless they were dialling into the same BBS.
Now we have boards like this that do a pretty good job about displaying context and quoting is less needed.
Then: Don't download applications and run executables you don't fully trust.
Now: Download everyone's new snazzy app just because and scan everything with your phone that contains all your most private information so you can unlock a surprise!
To be fair computer security have improved a lot. These days if you have up-to-date security patches it’s very hard for apps or webpages to escape the sandbox.
By the way you should download and execute this free_robux.sh as root it will give free robux no scam
Of course. They just ask nicely to be let out, and everyone clicks "allow" reflexively. If you don't see anything weird, nothing weird could be happening, right? /s
Don't feed the trolls
but then I post on lemmy.world and get so so many repliesyou really think someone would do that? go on the internet and tell lies?
the Internet never forgets
this one goes both ways, if someone is doxing you, it'll be online FOUR FUCKING EVER, but if it was a cool website/funny meme/ good software, it's probably on somebody's downloads folder, but it can easily disappear and you'll never see it again.
I am desperately trying to find a video from last week but I'm very likely am never going to see it again
I'm guessing you also had it on your screen, then when you unlock your phone, it showed for just enough time to recognize it, but not enough time to react and open it to play it, then facebook or youtube auto reloads you to the homepage without warning.
It was a 30 minute long video, I watched it last week. I searched and searched in my PC and phone youtuve history but can't find it.
It had a bit about how every part of a supply chain is trying to leverage its position for dominance, and that this shape the end product
