• @[email protected]
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    822 hours ago

    Peak was mid to late 2000’s. Late enough for most people to have broadband Internet and lots of websites with user submitted content that bypassed the traditional cultural gatekeepers, before smartphones and social media ruined everything.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      I grew up before the internet… I think life in general might have been better before it.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        We can agree to disagree. I don’t miss the days of paying for long distance phone calls, all the waiting around in trying to link up with friends at a designated place, looking up addresses in a physical book of map grids, manually maintaining a calendar in a planner, driving across town and waiting in line for tickets to a show. The internet made things better.

        The other stuff back then wasn’t always better, either. Smoking eveywhere, unreliable cars, air pollution, crime, etc., really cut into quality of life.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      521 hours ago

      So basically the Internet before YouTube came out and sparked the rapid corporatization of the Internet we called “Web 2.0”

      • @idiomaddict
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        24 hours ago

        YouTube was launched in 2005, as a way to share clips of Janet Jackson’s breast from the superbowl halftime show. The founders worked at PayPal, so I guess we can blame Peter Thiel once again