do you remember
before social media
when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people
like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden
the web made me love humanity
before social media
when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people
like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden
the web made me love humanity
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i truly believe that the enshitification of the internet is akin to cultural desecration
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A very different time on a very different Internet—now long gone.
But yeah, as some guy wrote - the world has moved on since then. It has emptied.
Some even still update sporadically!
Everything was just less catalogued, and it was fun.
It made the games seem so much fuller and more mysterious, like anything could happen.
I miss that.
They were like if ita bags were a webpage: “here’s my fave blorbo and every random image and tidbit I could find about them dumped on a page. With sparkles!”
I wasn't mad about it
Why is everything about influencer content and AI now?
We should change it. Go back.
There's no variations in kookery anymore. It's all the same, always to Trump.
only gardens we have left is tiny, helping n yelling out to others going through bullshit 😭
I remember there was no censorship and the entire dictionary was allowed.
I remember not seen a single ad outside of XXX pages and no oay walls anywhere.
It was truly incredible.
I was homeschooled, the Internet was an absolute LIFELINE for me.
You'd get pictures of vegetables and also TIME CUBE
We ought to preserve and restore THAT internet like it’s a valuable national wilderness area or something
remembering this one, which is still there & marked "in progress" 25 years later https://www.seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/
Human communities destroyed by the ouroboros of rampant consumerism.
Then some knuckleheads decided they could make $$ on the web and ruined it. I wish they'd just, y'know, kept hanging out at the mall or whatever it was they did before they wrecked it.