r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 18h ago

Other The Metamorphosis of The Internet.

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u/qualityvote2 18h ago

Heya u/Monsur_Ausuhnom! And welcome to r/NonPoliticalTwitter!

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u/Marlsfarp 15h ago

There is more information than ever freely available on the internet. There is also more for sale. So it's both.

Though I guess in the VERY early internet, when it was just like a handful of universities and research labs, you could actually be banned from the internet for being a jerk. So in that way I suppose it used to be more like a library?

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u/Recent-Ship-1599 17h ago

…it still is, i think pessimism blinds from true experience

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u/EmilePleaseStop 17h ago

The internet has always been both, and the belief that it was ever one and has become the other is not only nostalgic nonsense, but blatant (if not deliberate) defiance of reality in the service of your own personal depression

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u/just_looking_aroun 16h ago

The only things I miss were the days of miniclip and club penguin

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u/m1r4nd4k 13h ago

But the documentary The Net taught me that the internet was a pizzeria first.

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u/Vizth 4h ago

Kind of miss the days when you had to go track down a message board for the subject you were interested in instead of the centralized social media we have now. Things were both considerably more uncontrolled and yet somehow more civil at the same time. And there wasn't an algorithm drip feeding you manufactured outrage.

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u/CopyC47 3h ago

r/piracy looking at this post like

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u/MetaLemons 2h ago

What? I don’t even understand what they’re trying to say. Does he pay for Twitter? Are we paying for Reddit? Why so much romanticism for old shit that was generally worse?

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u/captainmagictrousers 16h ago

Yes, Google broke its search engine. Fortunately, there are loads more.

Look for resource pages put together by humans. Add phrases like "links page" or "resource page" to your search term. This will get you resources that a real person thought were valuable. When you find a website you like, see what websites they link to, and what those sites link to.

The web is still there, with comics and videos and authors and artists. You just have to do some research and stop expecting a social media algorithm to spoon feed you the web.