Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? (lemmy.world)

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My pick would be, dealing with the 'wild west' atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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[-] Dee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

Looks at Twitter and Facebook...

Uhhhh... Who's going to tell them that's still a really big issue? lol

Back in the day everything was kind of worse. The tech, the UI, having to use Java and Shockwave before even Flash was a thing let alone HTML5. Having everything spread out and in hard to locate sites. Which was kind of fun at first, but it got old. Mainly for me, it was the speed and the UI. So many things were incredibly unintuitive, we look back and remember the good ones and forget all the shovelware that was absolutely atrocious. OH! And BonziBuddy. That fuckin' BonziBuddy...

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