The Internet is really really great...
I have a fast connection so I don't have to wait...
Asking questions such as these...
As with most things, musical theater has the answer.
I didn't even have to click the link, but I did!
Inspired by DARPA, popularized by porn.
Being a silly dog boy :3
As I understand it, the original impetus was to develop a communication system that was resilient in the case of a nuclear attack.
Now we just use it for sharing pictures of cats and boobs
Prawns
its for looking at Silly cats
- AI/bot communication
- Porn
- Cat pictures/memes
Listed in order of traffic volume 😜
It’s for everybody to use however they want.
The Internet in just two words:
- Cats & porn
The Internet in just one word:
- Pussy
(not originally from me, but I like it)
Much like life, it is for whatever you make of it.
A profile collection tool for effective advertising dispersion.
The computer should only be for education, high morals, and bettering our humanity. Not for pornography and not for exploiting women.
the new frontier to be colonised
Geocities home pages
Mostly spam, porn, and recipes it seems from the traffic.
Ponies, lots and lots of them. Specifically the ones designed by Lauren Faust.
Rule 34
Yes.
...it depends on whom you ask, I think. For me it's for info/data exchange, wasting time, contacting people, shitposting. Roughly in this order of relevance.
Pictures of toes
The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another.
Or, at least it was. Now it's mostly a mall and organ harvesting operation.
Advertising
Memes
Originally, to make the neurodivergent people of the world feel less alone. But then neurotypicals decided to monetise it and make it and use it for social engineering and data collection, so now we have nowhere again.
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