Current Events > When was the golden age of the internet? When did it start to go downhill?

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We're now at a point where I feel very comfortable in saying things are objectively worse than they used to be, without feeling like I'm just wearing nostalgia goggles.

• Social media is complete cancer on the soul, mind, spirit - societally and personally
• Social media and forums have been weaponised poltically to the betterment of no one
• Forums are dying or dead and don't have the culture they used to have
• You need a 20 page article with a significant amount of preamble to get the answer you're looking for
• If you live in the UK, you ned to click on a pop up literally every time you go to any website saying you want all the cookies
• Actually I could go down a giant rabbit hole of all the ways the internet in the UK sucks major fucking dick
• Remember the cable cutting era? Remember when it made good sense to move away from cable and just transition to Netflix? Well now you need to pay 7 different companies a $10 subscription each to get the content you want, effectively making it like cable but more of a headfuck
• And videogame publishers, car dealers and home appliance manufacturers have cottoned on to that neat trick so now we get to enjoy subscription services for everything
• Piracy is not dead but it lacks the heart it used to have
• Youtube really, REALLY wants you to watch 2 minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of video. Like they really fucking want you to do this so fucking bad
• Even small time creators are having to make their content buttery slick and professional even though it's just a fucking cooking vid for like 200 people

God I hate this

Before youtube and Myspace

2005

The golden age of the internet has yet to arrive

2005-2007

As a black guy, a lot of your topic stuff mentioned laughable to me. I'm finally at a place where I don't have to worry about being called the N-Word in every debate or just randomly out of nowhere. Far less horribly offensive shit thrown in my face often. And there are finally some consequences for people that try to subtly do that awful shit too.

Much better than it was 20+ year ago for me.

That dancing Ooga Chaka baby.

It's all been a disappointment since.

Bandit_Keith posted...

As a black guy, a lot of your topic stuff mentioned laughable to me. I'm finally at a place where I don't have to worry about being called the N-Word in every debate or just randomly out of nowhere. Far less horribly offensive shit thrown in my face often. And there are finally some consequences for people that try to subtly do that awful shit too.

Much better than it was 20+ year ago for me.

I suppose that's true. 20 years ago every corner of the internet felt like 4chan, and i always felt immune to it.

SocialistGamer posted...

2005-2007

2010 at the latest.