The day wasn’t good, youth was. Now you’re old and everything is shit.
Oh wow that meme brought my mood way down, childhood is long gone now.
/b/ was never good and Milhouse is not a meme.
Millhouse is not a meme is a meme
Old guy here. Word.
YTMND
Strange this site still exists, thought it would have been well gone by now.
I’ve listened to leekspin for hour at work. It was great to numb my brain against the daily stress. I think my record was 6hours straight.
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The internet died when the eternal September started
The Internet died when the second person logged on.
I memeber… And I’m still salty about it
I can only think of that green day song but I imagine you’re meaning something more?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The Green Day song is about the lead singer’s father dying when he was 10
Yt turned from video sharing service to a shitty streaming one. Theoretically for free except you are the product.
It’s actually pretty insane that we prefer to watch some celebrity streamer talking than a movie or tv series. I think there was some brainwashing along the way or maybe it’s just a cope for loneliness
The advantage of youtube is that it’s user generation and low barrier to entry allows anyone to produce creations that are targeted to niches so specific, people would be unwilling to make something that targets them due to the lack of profit, if they are even aware of the existence of said niche. It also means that said creations can be made relatable to specific groups.
Things like parasocial relationships also apply, where we watch someones videos in order to get to know them to the point you may unintentionally believe you are friends with them, Something let’s players, bloggers, streamers and podcast/radio hosts all are able to effectively exploit. It probably helps that most start off being relatable to there viewers due to there similar (and often worse) economic status.
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Beritstan dillan dellan doo
A baribbattaa baribbariiba
Ribiribi distan dellan doo
Ja barillas dillan deia dooa
Daba daba daba daba daba duvja vuu
Baristal dillas dillan duu ba daga
Daiga daida duu duu deiga dou
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I’ll never forget Scatman John due to how prevalent his songs were on SM64 bloopers from the old days of Youtube.
But do you remember YTMND? Like can you imagine trying to explain those memes to the kids online these days?
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Arnold noises
It’s still there!
Would fit right in to The Useless Web. Sends you to a random useless website from a curated list.
I’ll have to check this out, sounds like the glory days of stumbleupon.
Nowadays its all about monetization :/
Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.
Just with a lot more communists
Explains why it’s not monetized to shit
Just don’t let a communist government get hold of it.
That’s an oxymoron, comrade!
I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.
As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.
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If you used one of these things to sort of mop up whatever data you have out there that private brokers have, and then followed your very good advice and used a different DNS system, along with an actual no log, obfuscated payment VPN…
That might actually result in what apparently we olds have known as basic online privacy.
It hasn’t reached the critical mass for monetization. It’s not ripe for the picking yet.
I don’t think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn’t as common before. I’m absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get “interraction”.
Culture changes. The best we can do is keep influencing it for the better, just wherever we’re able.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.
Nowadays…
If there is one eternal constant in human history, it’s that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.
Human creates thing.
Thing is cool.
Humans exploit thing.
Thing is no longer cool.
Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.
If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we’ll al have to find somewhere else to go.
If the future involves big popular mainstream paid instances, it sounds like the fediverse was a success.
Lemmy won’t be what it is now, but our niche instances can still exist.
Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.
Yeah me too.
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The north remembers operation soda steal
Capitalism loves to capitalise…
One of the many features it shares with CamelCase
I’m surprised I’ve only seen one mention of the good ol’ Stumbleupon.com, I used to spend hours alone and with friends just hopping from one random thing to another. Found some pretty cool stuff too.
LOVED stumbleupon. I even met some cool people IRL through it.
These days kagi.com/smallweb is the closest thing I’ve seen. It’s a lot of fun to stumble around, but of course the larger internet has changed. You didn’t have all of these content streaming behemoths vying for your engagement back then.
Seems like a pretty good use of /c/lost+found
It’s a cycle we all go through. My “when the internet was good” was when long-form text content ruled, before memes and videos took over. The kids of today will fondly remember the deep fried memes and TikToks from before the human race became functionally extinct.
If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
In my experience a lot of programming blogs still have them, but then again those are the people who are most capable of adding them and who are mostly likely to find them
Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?
As a website owner, you would just register your site with a ring and then add a bit of HTML at the bottom of your page which would display the randomly-selected banner of another site in the ring (and your banner would sometimes be displayed on another site). So visitors could just click on the banners and be taken through a circuit of interesting (sometimes) websites.
Ah, so basically a list/group of partner sites
But, like, for non-commercial fan sites, not for influencers.
Not really, because you would click an arrow to get to the next website. It didn’t list everything out.
Does that still exist? I have a subpage on my website with interesting links, this could be something for it.
I haven’t seen a web ring in more than 20 years.
Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!
web
real old school is BBS.
BBS
real old school is reconfiguring vacuum tubes in your warehouse sized computer
Ha, you kids and your fancy new fangled vacuum tubes. REAL old school is using a bunch of relays we nicked from the local telephone exchange!
deep frying
Like, vocal fries? The Aguilara ‘ehhhh-hhhhh-hhh’ or how Britney began every line of every song?
It’s when they crank up the saturation and lossy compression for… irony or something? Idk I’m old
Mr T ate my balls.
Andrew?
It’s basically Geocities in the modern world. You can explore rabbit holes, make your own site, and enjoy the wonders of the web of creativity.
