The internet has become soulless and i hate it
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Do you remember the early days of the internet, when websites were a reflection of their creators unique personalities and passions? A time when the d

Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

  • AdaMAEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    The dial up modem sounds. I don’t know why, but I genuinely miss them

    I also miss the reduced footprint of mega companies with their “we are the internet” monopolistic tendencies. They still wanted to be the entire internet, but they weren’t.

    I miss when Google’s motto was “Do no evil”.

    I miss when Usenet was for something more than downloading porn and pirated content

    I miss Geocities and everyone having their own shitty webpage

    I don’t miss IRC and netsplits, or images that would load line by line and rearrange your page as they did. I don’t miss JavaScript popup ads or websites that played looping wav files with no easy option to stop them.

    • @Flannels9658@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      I can still tell you how fast a modem is connecting by the sound. Though I was less accurate by the time it got to k56flex and v.90 56k speeds.

      • AdaMAEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        That’s an impressive skill :)

    • @llii@feddit.deEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      I also miss the reduced footprint of mega companies with their “we are the internet” monopolistic tendencies. They still wanted to be the entire internet, but they weren’t.

      Especially this. The web was just different without all the bloated pages with dozens of trackers.