Tbf I think I'd like it more if we had online shopping, cell phones, instant messaging etc but we didn't have social media as we know it today. Like we stuck with phpbb, Usenet and IRC and didn't move much more beyond that into Myspace and Facebook
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wtf that's fucked up
A majority of people prefer living in the past (because they refuse to chance) - and that's really fucking with out chances to have a decent future...
It's really fucked up
I'm surprised even the younger people would say so, since they have no experience with how it was.
I guess I'm "old" now, being 47 and all, but I was part of growing up with computers and the web just before most corporations even had a homepage or had any web presence at all.
I was on irc, forums, BBS:es... The web browser was Netscape in the beginning, and later Internet Explorer. Search engine was Altavista, and the irony here was that it was so full of ads that Google got a golden opportunity to launch their Google Search with no ads whatsoever. It completely wrecked Altavista with it's clean fast design and the rest is history.
Now Google is the Altavista and we are waiting for someone to come and give us alternatives. Weather that is Kagi or some other AI based engine, we will see.
The problem is always ads. They destroy products and communities. People must change their ways and start paying a little bit for basic services like search and email and support those companies who want to provide a quality service without ads.
anyone who says that forgets how bad tv sucked back then
I mean you'd have to at least bring back video stores or something
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Everyone can do it for them-self, just don't use a smartphone or a cell phone if you want to go more hardcore.
I know you mean well but this is kind of a privileged take. Not everyone who wants to disconnect can afford to. It's kind of like how many people can't afford to just not use the internet, without it they will likely lose access to many essential resources.
"Just" not using a smartphone is viable for an increasingly vanishing portion of the population, in the US at least.
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I don't want to get rid of that stuff, but instead I uninstalled all work apps off my phone. They need me, they can page me and I'll login with my work laptop. When I'm out of work, I'm out.
A majority of Americans are over 50, so that's no surprise, but so many under 50 and 35 too? That's a surprise. Then why is the public so captivated by it? You don't need to use it for most things.
There are a few very specific things I miss from pre-2007. For instance, I weirdly miss conversations where a whole group of people are trying to remember an answer to a question. I still find my self ask a question to a group and when someone pulls out their phone I'm disappointed because I didn't just want the answer.
But that's not a reason to go back. That's just nostalgia.
I miss the internet before iphones existed - 2008 seems to be a delineation when suddenly any idiot could easily access the "internet". Before that the net was a different place
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they couldn’t simply text to flake out when you were already seated.
Yeah, but then they'd get stuck in traffic and you'd be sitting there increasingly uncomfortable, wondering if they stood you up, or worse, got into an accident.