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> The Internet was much better before the 2000s An embarrassing fiction, it was junk. More people are on VPNs now than were on the internet pre-2000 It's true
by NedF 11mo ago
> The Internet was much better before the 2000s
An embarrassing fiction, it was junk. More people are on VPNs now than were on the internet pre-2000
It's true there were ideas and principals in a wild west the younger generation will never know was the default. You could go out and have a battle with Injun's or see a lynching but it was 99.9% dust and hard work herding cows.
The internet now is a megacity, everything is amazing, there are roving gang wars to little hobbyists and anything else you can imagine.
> He’s also totally correct in calling out the obvious lunge towards authoritarianism
Yes Pavel and this is 100% correct.
China banned VPNs effectively, this will come to the West next. If the US falls there is no where to VPN to.
- jagermo 11mo ago>> He’s also totally correct in calling out the obvious lunge towards authoritarianism >Yes Pavel and this is 100% correct. a lunge he happily helped support with telegram and vkontakte as long as the money rolled it. Poor rich guy.
- rockskon 11mo agoThere's relentless distractions. Being relentlessly harrassed by so many things trying to steal your attention and time. The Internet truly was better when people had more control over their own experience in it. Now the modern equivalent of pop-up ads are on every blog begging you to sign up for their newsletter and you're severely restricted in how you can even interact with the handful of popular websites leftover. Some things are better now, sure. But some are definitely worse with the control over information exposure that we've lost.