Current Events > it's kinda crazy the internet peaked between 2005 and 2015

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And the internet we know so far will probably only lasted like 25 years. Nowadays it's too monopolized and overstuffed with garbage, especially the past 5 years

Nowadays it's too monopolized and overstuffed with garbage

its going to keep annexing too w/ the help of budd AI

I feel like 2015/2016 is when I was forced to pay close attention to politics for the first time in my adult life, only to feel like I'm watching a slow moving train wreck of avoidable consequences ever since

Yeah it was a special time and we didn't even realize it. I'm happy I went through high school during that era.

Error1355 posted...

I feel like 2015/2016 is when I was forced to pay close attention to politics for the first time in my adult life, only to feel like I'm watching a slow moving train wreck of avoidable consequences ever since

For me I feel it was earlier, around 2008 or so. I get the overall sentiment though.

Nah it peaked before that. Before sites started getting acquired by bigger companies

peaked around 2000-2003 imo

Born too late to explore the world
Born too early to explore the universe
Born just in time to explore the internet when it was at its best.

I used to have to try less to see whatever I wanted, which was nice

I'd say 2012/13 at the latest.

not entirely interrelated but anyone else raising an eyebrow at the fact that the population thrust between 145Ad to today?

I for one would like to know how this mapped out
and while my cookies are present the real reason prices are so high has absolutely nothing to do with fuel demand imo

Long nights spent on a bunch of different websites before bed, 2002-2010.

Message boards, blogs, special interest sites. Good times. Great times, even. And gamefaqs was a huge part of that.

Chasing that high has brought me back here, back to sites like last.fm, and *off* of sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.

Pre-2007 internet was the best.

Before the fucking normies invaded it.

HojoojoH_2 posted...

Long nights spent on a bunch of different websites before bed, 2002-2010.

Message boards, blogs, special interest sites. Good times. Great times, even. And gamefaqs was a huge part of that.

Chasing that high has brought me back here, back to sites like last.fm, and *off* of sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.

I was on pokemon special translation web forum in late 2000s, it was awesome following the fan translation progress in real time.

2007 specifically I'd say

right before things like smartphones/Facebook/Twitter took off

FL81 posted...

2007 specifically I'd say

right before things like smartphones/Facebook/Twitter took off

What happened in 2007 that was even half as good as Blood Ninja?

Some people like to say we're looking at the old Internet with rose tinted glasses. I say they're wrong. I'm well aware of the downsides it had, but I'd gladly take those if it meant removing all the filthly morons that plague it today.

2005-2012 was objectively when the internet peaked. Everything started going to shit once everyone began to have access to smartphones and broadband-tier internet speeds.

This is a take you rarely (if ever) hear because even though we're such a doomerist society we still haven't shaken the Y2K-era delusion that assumes if you shove technology in front of the lowest common denominator they'll naturally want to educate themselves and become more cultured.

2009
About when I stopped looking at FB & started tweeting.
Bluesky a full year now.

I read a thing a while back where the head of an AI firm was saying that web sites now are built for humans but in the future they'll be built for AI. The user won't interact with web sites directly, they'll do it through an AI.

That sounded absolutely horrible to me. Like if you said we're going to build a library but you can't read any of the books yourself. This machine will summarize them for you and you just have to trust that it isn't going to distort any information or flatten out any nuance in the process.