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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'm also clueless and don't understand what the OP is talking about - who is having a mental breakdown and why? And aren't the millennials who are the only tech and internet literate generation exactly the people having a mental breakdown over the way the internet is going? I'm so confused, I need more context.
Spot fucking on. The people who’ve watched it grow then wither are the most bitter because we saw what it could have become
I'll never forget John C. Dvorak's 2006 article from PC Mag, where he argued that we were living in the Golden Age of the Internet, and to enjoy it while it lasts, before it ends up overcommercialized like what happened to radio. I only half believed it at the time, but I see now that he was 100% spot on with that prediction. (Snippet here; can't find a scan of the entire article.)
I've been on since BBS's , I was just starting to understand it a little then it expanded to browsers, then there was the FTP's to share pirated software, ICQ to meet people from all over the world it was good.
Then it went to shit, the only good thing is that torrents have been keeping my media free.
I miss IRC. I met really cool people there. From nowadays social networks almost nobody. Not sure what is the difference, maybe it helps that I do not want to link my real person to social networks.
Dude, you don't have to miss IRC, you can just hop back in. Its still great. A little less people but once you find a couple of channels its excellent.
Just few months ago I came back to my old IRC channels about my hobbies. All empty except the one from my city, that is used only by men to find sex, 0 conversation.
Oh yeah the old ones we used to hang out in are long gone. I found new ones.
Even though I'm not the owner or admin of this place, I feel like I can invite you to have a look around. Relevant info and a webchat can be found here: https://inthemansion.com/
Statistically speaking, most people alive for the days of the early internet are significantly better off than younger generations. That's my guess, that whoever posted this is comfortably oblivious to the class war
But if you've been around long enough and have been reading and paying attention to history, you shouldn't be surprised because the ruling class is literally doing what they have always done.
The US has not changed, their ruling class has been raping and eating people and children since its inception, but people ignore that history or aren't taught it because it was done to slaves.
Slavery never ended, it just changed names and presentation to for-profit prisons.
Idk if we are desensitized or just not surprised because we could see it coming
I was assuming OP means all those gross out pics/vids, or the death/violent stuff. Those pain olympics were something else, and I couldn't finish 2 girls 1 cup.
Not just me then
This my brother.