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Member when the web was starting out? We had dreams and ideas. Standards being written. Concepts about how to build out the web for maximum efficiency of sharing information. It was frowned upon to not include source. Low effort screenshots didn’t cut it. Best practices were always available and encouraged.
I’m sure many of us remember those forks in the road as the web progressed. It was so clear when corporations starting having “ideas” where it was going to lead if we didn’t stand up for the “correct” way to internet.
And now here we are. Ugh.
When the internet was new I thought that the spread of knowleege would raise up people's awareness of things they had not been exposed to under the false assumption that the vast majority of people where reasonable, but uninformed.
Nope, I was wrong. At best a slight majority are reasonable with varying levels of ignorance and the rest are willfully ignorant.
In the early years, I learned a lot of new things. The late 90's had so much hope for the web and learning new things. I remember falling I to rabbit holes a lot more often back then because it wasn't about video essays and persuasive videos.
I miss all of those old text based chatting and the friends I made on Yahoo local chat rooms. Somedays I wish the social media sites run by algorithms didn't surpass those old forums and chat rooms.
Internet is just a new form of mass media to control the minds of people who aren't paying attention
I just started hearing about some Facebook at some point, and then some (it's Russia) Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte and a few other spaces.
These seemed to be the sites which lamers use to feel themselves relevant with that Internet thing. Leprosoria of the Web. Places where I wouldn't go, even if I would sometimes go to porn sites, especially when depressed.
Normal people would use LiveJournal and move from ICQ to XMPP and Skype. Skype voice calls (back then they were better with countryside radio link than now with GPON) were a miracle, so me and everybody around me moved to Skype.
Then there was a moment when the Web suddenly died and everyone was on those social networks.
I actually blame LJ and Skype. Technically these worked fine, but they were a gateway drug.
LJ made it easy to have something like a personal webpage, only it wasn't personal, it was in LJ. ICQ lost popularity when it fought alternative clients, there were no alternative clients for Skype at all and everybody got used to service providers dictating how people should use their service, imposing their client software.
It's still terrifying how that ICQ run was the last such run in modern Internet's history. A company fucked around and found out. Nothing like that has happened since. That's my canary.
I remember. Now it's mostly walled gardens everywhere. Capitalism fucked us again.
Remember when you had RSS with HUNDREDS of different websites and had your own personal little newspaper every day 🥲
I still do
I run a freshRSS server and use apps like lire as a client.
I don't remember when it was starting out but I do remember the forums of the 00s as well as the overall online culture of the time. The fediverse is the closest I've gotten to feeling that again but obviously nothing will ever feel like that again because I'm an adult and all the sense of wonder is gone from the online world for me.
At least here, we're not on a platform owned by corporations.