I will die on a hill that the internet was a better place before ~2007-2010ish - ThreadSky

win98tech.bsky.social • 46 days ago

I will die on a hill that the internet was a better place before ~2007-2010ish

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Early internet culture with modern internet UIs (I will die on the hill that modern UIs are almost universally better) would be peak

tiago.cool•45 days ago

I will die on a hill that ux was better in the win9x days. What was a button, text field, resizeable window, scrollbar, was obvious, nothing was hidden,no space wasted

jneiraauthor.bsky.social•46 days ago

I started posting on the internet right at the end of 2006 as a pre-teen... and yeah, things were better before endless scroll & Twitter.

earthnova.bsky.social•46 days ago

Thanks Obama

sudoku.bsky.social•46 days ago

Facebook really did single handedly kill the internet

slipcase.bsky.social•46 days ago

win98tech forums when

win98tech.bsky.social•46 days ago

Don't fucking tempt me

wmcdonald404.co.uk•46 days ago

comp.os.microsoft.windows.win98techsupport

slipcase.bsky.social•46 days ago

morealias.bsky.social•45 days ago

What, back when you were 14 and everyone was at risk of hearing your opinion?

alamahamus.bsky.social•46 days ago

I envy the little forums and imageboards that have survived to this day.
I pray they remain pure and untouched by the modern internet.

strawberrynarwhal.bsky.social•46 days ago

I wasn't on twitter
And I just played on little avatar sites so yes

win98tech.bsky.social•46 days ago

We weren't meant to see everything from everyone all the time. That old joke about being at risk of seeing 14y/o's opinions? It didn't used to be like that, you had your 2-3 forums ypu visited, early YT, Newgrounds and maybe Homestar on Mondays

kogashiwakai.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wasn't emails on Tuesdays?

win98tech.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh shoot you might be right

kogashiwakai.bsky.social•46 days ago

Well I recall they were at the start of the week but as to which day I can't say

qxcool.bsky.social•46 days ago

yeah the fucking freaks kept mostly to their niche spaces

toadofsky.bsky.social•46 days ago

Our minds can’t handle a constant stream of info 24/7. It can’t handle dopamine hits all day It’s not healthy, and you’re better off being less engaged with it.

therundownrabbit.bsky.social•46 days ago

B-but...you get Rabbit posts today

win98tech.bsky.social•46 days ago

Every storm cloud has a silver lining

mordunsolar.bsky.social•46 days ago

Good ol' Newgrounds. Glad it's still up because there's a bunch of content on there that wouldn't fly on YouTube even before The Algorithm became a fickle bitch.

dacworkshop.bsky.social•46 days ago

Getting rid of kid-"friendly" internet spaces and forcing everyone in the same three websites with sub-Lowtax administration has been a disaster for the modern internet

dacworkshop.bsky.social•46 days ago

The children yearns for bonus dot com

silverwingprime.bsky.social•46 days ago

Man, I remember Gamespy had funny articles back in the day. Planet Fargo and the Daily Victim

ansgar-odinson.bsky.social•46 days ago

The internet was a better place before google consolodated everything. When yt still had star ratings.

mookstyfawker.bsky.social•46 days ago

There was a time where you could get bored of the internet. I remember when I had dial up. I'd check my email, check IGN updates, check the Sam & Fuzzy update if it was the right day, and maybe hang on MSN or play some StarCraft matches. Usually two hours and that was it. It was simpler.

mookstyfawker.bsky.social•46 days ago

I did not mention NewGrounds because a visit to NewGrounds was an event. I planned my days around binging NewGrounds videos.

moegamer.net•46 days ago

I made $200 for making some Wolfenstein 3D levels after a chance encounter with someone from Apogee on CompuServe's GAMERS forum. I feel like the circumstances which caused that to happen would be near impossible today.

marbletemples.bsky.social•46 days ago

open the kids mmos again im begging all they have is ponytown and that shit is a containment zone

bankholiday.bsky.social•46 days ago

GameFAQ forums, my beloved.

moesidegaming.bsky.social•46 days ago

Yeah, from the early 90s til 2016.

jaminacam.bsky.social•46 days ago

theres also the second impact around 2016-18 when the original culture war types showed up. Gamergate, the peak of online atheism, anime fans becoming media analysts

bronzebeard.bsky.social•46 days ago

Sounds like 16-18 is when YOU started paying attention to those things.

wandererriha.bsky.social•45 days ago

No it was.

sweet-jesus.bsky.social•46 days ago

The cutoff was probably around 2015. That's when it became more of a malignant force in modern life.

ohschiesse.bsky.social•46 days ago

It seems to me imo that a forum centered media diet is substantially less likely to do a brain melt than social media. I say less because something awful/kiwifarms exist(ed)

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