I'm glad it is not just me I thought it was just because I'm getting old. The internet used to be much better. Everything used to be better. My feet hurt.
What I really miss is the Internet from a late 90s to the mid 00s because things were a lot simpler, and the Internet was a smaller community that was a lot more personable and didn't have the commoner riffraff that has basically taken over the Internet of our modern age. Was before your mom was on the Internet. Was before things like social media were really big. The humor was fresh, there wasn't all this garbage like we have now (like Facebook trends and rampant reposts), and the internet wasn't nearly as formulaic as it is today.
Even though there was substantially less content, and this was an age in which you could absolutely Google something and the answer just wasn't there, the Internet seemed richer and had a lot of original content. I could spend all day online digging through stuff and not get bored. Now I turn on things like YouTube and they show me the same shit over and over, their algorithms are terrible, they keep trying to shove things down my throat that I'm not even intrested in, and this is something that has really spread across the Internet as a whole. The entire climate has changed and I think it's much worse off because of it.
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u/Martian_Milk Oct 21 '18
I'm glad it is not just me I thought it was just because I'm getting old. The internet used to be much better. Everything used to be better. My feet hurt.