I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.
Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.
Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?
I left reddit for lemmy and now lemmy is just the same people complaining about the same stuff. What happened to cat pics, pirates, and robots?
I think it’s kinda hard to find spaces where people are gonna be willfully ignorant of the issues currently plaguing our lives. Sure, everyone wants a break from it and not think about it the latest infringement on our rights but outrage fatigue is something we need to be aware of.
I opened Lemmy after like a year and this post made me smile. I don’t see this as ‘complaining’ considering I just arrived from the cesspool that’s reddit.
America is dead, play it off Keyboard Cat.
I don’t know what’s going on here or why that looks like Ron Livingston, but I upvoted it anyways.
it’s a Reddit link…but that’s how far back it goes
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/u1qnr/this_is_to_date_the_only_video_ron_livingston/
it was the ONLY video Ron Livingston uploaded to YouTube. & that’s Ron Livingston’s head icymi and just hanging out
- fails to elaborate
- never uploads again
It’s nice when artists realize they’ve peaked.
But he did post again! 6 years ago telling people to vote
/end script
Back when the internet was just cat videos it was all upvotes always.
It’s definitely Ron Livingston. Why… is not our concern.
If you haven’t watched Office Space or Band of Brothers, then go do that.
I own and have watched both multiple times. But excellent advice for anyone reading this who hasn’t.
issue is it will collapse into neofeudalism, where the Czar Executive Officier of your network city will demand you work 16 hours every day, or he will send you to the wellness farms working 18 hours a day.
“Play me off, Johnny!”
I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that’d be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.
That would have required self-reflection, self-love, and not falling head-first into the absurdities of an Ayn Rand-ripoff who called himself Mencius Moldbug.
He was one of my top 8 friends! True story.
How do get friends?
While Tom was tomming, Zuckerberg was zucking.
Before either of them Gates was gatesing. TechCrunch entrepreneurs have always sucked.
This is another reason why income and wealth inequality are bad for us. We have a natural level of psychopathy in the population. Some are bound to stumble into the kind of power given by obscene inequality.
I miss the old internet
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Before the corporations colonized it
The good old days of: “cat, i’m a kitty cat and i dance dance dance and i dance dance dance”
Is it me, or is this ironically old meme designed to dismiss whatever the user says?
I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.
Same.
Such a good jam.
The internet was actually for porn
One of my earliest experiences with the Internet was seeing a picture of a country girl in cowboy boots with a carrot up her ass and an ear of corn stretching her pussy. It was 1991. I also played bridge with people in Asia in the middle of the night.
The internet
“I can do both”
Damn, I wish I had access to the early internet. What was it like? I didn’t even get internet until I immigrated to the US in like around the 2010s, so I had no idea what internet was like before that.
It wasn’t commodified nearly to the extent it is now, so a large portion of it existed merely because of people’s passion. There were no super sites of information like reddit, so people would create their own websites and forums dedicated to one subject. Forums still had their arguments, but it wasn’t nearly as vitriolic as social media is now. Search really, really sucked until Google came along. Slow as balls.
the good news is, often times those old forums are still up. so if you’re doing a very niche hobby, like trying to outfit your '05 nissan sentra with a turbocharger for some reason, there are forums talking about it. you might even be able to respond to the threads. who knows.
We also didn’t rely on the internet as much as a resource. Like of course you would do some of your research online, but if you were really working on something serious, you went to the library!
Everything was somewhere in between https://slashdot.org/, https://ytmnd.com/, and 4chan.
The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.
The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn’t like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.
Yeah the internet now is so much nicer. And I don’t just mean the corporate spaces with the edges sanded off, but the indie web, fediverse, and random forums. There used to be this incredibly toxic masculinity that crept into everything.
A lot of us have also grown up. I know because I’m still in a forum with people I’ve known online from 20+ years ago, where we used to post the most heinous, edgy shit.
It’s not the early internet, but a lot of websites in the 00s (when I started using it) let you customize your profile. We all had horrible CSS and an autoplay song that only we liked on our Myspace profiles and it was great. Flash was both a buggy mess that could introduce viruses to your computer and an amazing outlet for creativity that I don’t think has been replaced. It was a lot less centralized and you were only being tracked across the whole internet by the NSA and not every internet company too.
Edit: I should say that I lose a bit of nostalgia every time I see forum posts from that era though, the casual bigotry was everywhere and so obnoxious
You never had to create an account to view anything in the website.
Mindless scrolling was not a thing because links were mostly nested.
It was also extremely easy to chat with perverts on mIRC, the Yahoo chat thing etc. Speaking of chats, all of your chat logs were stored locally on your PC as text files rather than on a cloud so you could delete them if you wanted.
Look up “indie web” and just start clicking links until you see URLs you’ve never heard of before.
Congrats, you’re surfing the web. Let us know if you find anything cool.
You know how lemmy or xyz social media is people posting their thoughts directly so you kinda get a look into their brains? And maybe there’s a pic or vid or some other link to accompany it to support the topic of their post. Imagine that but it’s entire websites basically built from the ground up with what one lone person believed was aesthetically appropriate to communicate their ideas or passions.
And nothing was centralized so there might’ve been a hundred time cube variations but no one ever found them because they weren’t linked on anyone’s webrings. It was all beautiful terrible madness.
The joys of learning HTML to impress your high school crush with autoplay music on your MySpace profile…
It’s borderline difficult to live day to day knowing what’s going on at every moment.
You know how millennials and Gen z can’t even image working one job that’s minimum wage to buy a house and support a family.
Soon the generations after us won’t be able to image a fun internet that’s not filled with ads and controlled by 5 companies.
