Fast internet is nice, but what if it wasn’t a corporatized nightmare overrun with money-chasing investor-backed start-ups and giant monocorps trying to monetize and exploit every single inch of it?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anything change on the last bit? before it was dial up and mom kept complaining about its cost.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m not saying 90s internet didn’t have any of that, but I wouldn’t have described it as “overrun”. Seemed to me, as a child, like most of it was just companies getting an online presence for their existing business to try and be part of wave.

ISPs have always sucked, though.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah it's like when a new Game is out and there is no Meta so it's random fun until the try hards are min maxing and now I have to min max to compete sucking the fun.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 0 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that's a pretty decent analogy. It was a wild time, and my fondness is probably tainted by nostalgia, but I'd trade our current internet for it in a second.