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I would dearly love to return to even the 2021 era of the internet in general. 1999 would be ideal, actually. But I'd settle for most anything up to 2012 or so.
by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I would dearly love to return to even the 2021 era of the internet in general. 1999 would be ideal, actually. But I'd settle for most anything up to 2012 or so.
- pjc50 2y agoI've been trying to work out what the end date of the good internet was, and if there was a trigger event, and I'm starting to think it was somewhere between Tahrir Square (2011) and Euromaidan (2014); once the political internet became really effective, it had to be countered by those in power.
- sharpshadow 2y ago2011 was the release year of bootstrap so that would fit quite well.
- interestica 2y agoAsteroid 2024 YR4 (the one that might hit Earth in 2032) also made close passes in 2012, 2016, and 2020. …