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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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The internet I loved died like 15 years ago anyway. It got replaced by ads and misinformation bots and hatred.
I'm deeply jealous of people who experienced the early internet. For me it has always been like this.
My dude, YouTube used to not have ads
And Facebook used to just literally have your friends statuses show up on it and that was it. No ads or sponsored content.
But I’m also old enough to remember when getting somewhere involved using a map and asking for directions at gas stations.
Man, for all the advancements in technology, I fucking did this last week lmao.
My GPS was telling me to "continue to the intersection of Grand and 12th" then "take the third exit in the roundabout" when Grand and 12th was a stoplight and there was no roundabout in sight.
Well at least you’re well versed in the old ways.
People say that early internet was like the wild west, and I agree. And I feel like a weathered old cowboy who saw my homestead on the frontier get surrounded by buildings, cars, industries, smog, noise, and the never ending growth of the population.
Capitalism fucked us all, and it keeps fucking us, and it will kill us.
I was there when people when people were sending around Goatse pics and all our info came from Alta Vista.
It was pretty sweet, apart from the prolapse.
"You don't really know what it is you have until it's gone. Gone...gone."
In the early days, there were a lot of porn ads before ad blockers came along. There’s a nice sweet spot somewhere between that invention and the internet of today.
Hate to disagree but like this is the Internet and it’s pretty great and there are no ads and most of us are not bots and there’s a lot of love here
Lemmy is an exception to the rule.
It won't stay that way for long.
Nah, if it remains unpopular enough it’ll be fine.