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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean... how old is 4chan? .../b/?

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was on it mid/late 2000s. I dont know when it was formed, but i was definitelt on it around 06

Edit: The internet says it was launched in 03

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

nothing was monetized.

Lmao.

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[–] LazyGit@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Not sure. I still remember the Great-NetNews-AOL-Hate (aka ‘me-too’) of 1995 :)

/s, I think

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Exactly this. Shit I remember when the alt.* tree was added to USENET. The amount of the cabal talk and how the argument actually was: "No, nobody wants to pay to host your racist rants". And some of the worst stuff I see on Reddit today is light-years better than what the Internet was in plain sight back in the day before cracking down on things actually came around.

I'm glad person in the imaged post was happy with the Internet back then, but it was far from "human and genuine". This is absolutely some rose tinted nostalgia. What they miss is small niche communities and this kind of talk is exactly how "get off my lawn" elderly people get started.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I remember Google search being in beta

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It feels unsustainable, right? Like the value of of this tsunami of advertising has to be inflated, especially with bots/agents taking over traffic. People’s tolerance for junk isn’t infinite. At some point the illusion has to crack, and the advertising bubble will pop and burn the internet/app ecosystems down, hopefully…

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, there has to be a point when they're going to realize that they're hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

YouTube wasn't around for half of the mid-2000s.

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