Living in a country that isn’t from Europe or US, and having better internet access just recently from 2015, the feeling of “I’m always late/out of the party” felt very often but not so weird either, like I’m very used to feel about this.
So when there is something trending, I don’t quite realize that I can be part of it. I just let it pass and when someone refers to it some time in the future, I tell it “oh yea that was a thing ‘they’ do”.
Basically, the ‘they’ character often I encounter because I never feel like I’m part of them or anything. But it’s not that I feel it sad or anything, I’m used to this feeling. And not that I’m a typical person who wants to always follow the latest trend.
I was living in tge poor side of Europe which not many people had internet but if you were lucky you could steal internet from your neighbors
Hahahaha, similar situation here.
But I got internet connection at home in 2015, not just a better one.
A bit of nostalgia (even though I didn’t live it); it feels more like a bunch if hobby projects on display, or a conversation among friends, rather than an optimized attention-grabbing machine.
But also, the internet was ugly af back then, so…
so…
so so
damn that website is ugly /joke
I don’t find myself that old and I was chatting on IRC in 1995. Ahhh the dialup days, we have it so easy today.
So you think is bad or good
It was a simpler time. Not easier, but it was more work to put out your opinion online.
Nowaday, social media is mostly just a verbal diarrhea on the Internet.
i think “lol”
I’m a little older than that, but, regarding technology related threads: I imagine genius greybeards talking to each other after taking a break from hardware hacking an cold computer. I think I associate this image with a meme I saw a long time ago showing, supposedly, a fat gentoo user on the floor opening a computer.
I was born in 2000s. I have sometimes this feeling like: “waw, it looks like Internet was great at this time, no tracking, real anonymity, no attention economy…”. But Internet is still great: we have better and easier means to do what we want to do. People are more aware of dangers of Internet. If shit occurs often on Internet it’s because it’s just a mean and the real problem is human behaviour. I don’t want to fall in the nostalgic trap. I don’t want to say myself: “everything good was already done, now we have just shit”, because it would prevent me and my generation to create and fix the different problems we face.
