Hrefna (DHC) on Nostr: "I miss the old internet, when the cruel people were contained to one or two websites ...
"I miss the old internet, when the cruel people were contained to one or two websites I could ignore"
What internet would that be, exactly?
It certainly wasn't any internet I've been on, and I've been around since the 1990s.
This "nostalgia for the 'heyday of the internet'" almost always seems to be rooted in these rose-colored glasses about how things were.
I won't argue about whether things are better or worse overall, but this idea that the internet was somehow _nicer_ is weird to me.
What internet would that be, exactly?
It certainly wasn't any internet I've been on, and I've been around since the 1990s.
This "nostalgia for the 'heyday of the internet'" almost always seems to be rooted in these rose-colored glasses about how things were.
I won't argue about whether things are better or worse overall, but this idea that the internet was somehow _nicer_ is weird to me.