• fireweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’m really confused what this could be referring to.

    Because the folks who’ve been around the longest and remember the early days of the Internet are currently in utter dismay over how their fun international sandbox has become a Black Mirror-esque horror show, while everyone else seems to just shrug and obediently upload their face scans so they can watch AI videos of uncanny-valley cats playing cruel pranks on facsimiles of political figures in-between unskippable ads for applying to be an ICE agent under promises that it’ll be like COD but in your own backyard with living, breathing brown people.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    17 days ago

    Old internet:

    • Lots of fun places to visit
    • “So, first I visit thisite, then click that other link, then click the 3rd link on the right from the bottom up”
    • Oh fuck, no, don’t go in THERE
    • Hey, another toolbar for my IE toolbar collection!
    • Wait, what was that site again?
    • Ugh, why won’t this image load?
    • No mom, I’m not keeping the phone line busy!
    • One login for this forum, another for that forum, another for that other forum…
    • Wow, email sure is neat! Instant messaging with anyone in the world!
    • weird noises when the mouse hovers certain elements
    • BOOBIES!

    Current internet:

    • tiktok, instagram, google, facebook, amazon
    • ANIMATED BOOBIES!