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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I'm deeply jealous of people who experienced the early internet. For me it has always been like this.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

My dude, YouTube used to not have ads

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

Well at least you’re well versed in the old ways.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"You don't really know what it is you have until it's gone. Gone...gone."

[-] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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.

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