Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
www.newyorker.com
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
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Mystery solved.
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Oh geez
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Also parents taking over something fun.
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I miss the days of NewGrounds, Miniclip, and Kongregate.
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I miss Flash games on browsers. Limewire. YouTube before influencers.
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I think that’s when the Internet started going to shit. When people started using it for shameless self-promotion. I miss MySpace, and GeoCities.
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Thankfully we can still enjoy the flash games online at least. http://www.flashgamearchive.com/
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I miss the SomethingAwful forums from 2004
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Because it’s run by companies and not people like before. Because the original internet community grew and they prefer being in family and outside.
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"Why the internet isn't fun anymore" - proceeds to talk about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.
Completely fails to mention any fediverse sites, or any of the millions of other sites out there.
If you're the author, the internet isn't fun anymore because you don't use it. You visit the corporate websites only. You either never learned how to use the internet, or you're not interested in actually trying.
Its like the person who never leaves their neighborhood and complains that life is boring.
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Agreed but isn't it the experience most people on the Internet currently have?
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AIM/MSN/Yahoo chatrooms. GeoCities. Neopets. Limewire, KaZaa, listening to Art Bell on the radio next to you while you search for the latest alien news and read ancient texts. Webrings. Message boards. NSA hadn't partnered with Microsoft for the first version of PRISM.
It was more decentralized, but even in the centralized parts there weren't yet entire industries dedicated to stealing every last bit of dopamine from you to sell to the highest bidder.
It was an amazing time. RIP 1985-2010
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Even worse when you realize it's the job of these journalists to tell people there's a whole world out there. The general public may not know about this, but if you're a journalist making these claims, they should know better
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The internet I grew up with and loved couldn't survive having the whole population on it. It became about making money off the userbase, political manipulation, and addictive distractions. It's success killed it.
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It was such a fun and fanciful place.
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The unattainable is unknown at Zombo com!
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Ask the people that had you put a paywall on the article, writers and editors of New Yorker!
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Spreed 42.zip, renamed in boobs.zip, in Facebook and you'll see how funny the internet can be.
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How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.
https://12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
When they put up a 10 foot wall, use a 12 foot ladder
It's not paywalled for me. Clear cookies for this domain or use an adblocker.
That doesn't mean it's not paywalled. Just that you have the knowledge and the means to climb over that wall. Not all people have.
Copy and paste it then