The older Internet felt more like a collection of places because communities had addresses, customs, memory, and edges.
  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    im glad that crap like irc is dead, but people found modern crap instead of it.

    i dont miss old forums, i still use vogons, mobilism, slipseer.

    • Blemgo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      I mean, IRC is not dead, there are still active chatrooms and there’s even an implementation that allows sharing media over the room.

      I think IRC will always have its place, because it’s simple and easy to set up. Great for communities when someone wants to chat about what the community is about or needs quick help.

      I for myself miss forums, especially since it acts as an archive as well as for various other things. It’s atrocious how Discord managed to take its place and made things so much worse.

      • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        The way I see it is, for many things on the internet, the raw number of people using them has stayed steady or even gone up slightly, but there are so many more people who wouldn’t have used the old internet online now, and much of the money and energy goes to catering to them, which means Facebook, Instagram, Reddit etc. The people who know what they’re doing still use the old internet. We should be extending our arms to the people stuck on social media, who think that is the whole thing.

  • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Oh God this whole article and website is just a pile of slop. This turd got shat out by some prompt artist calling themselves “Future AI Dude”.

    The Internet used to have places, but now we have little hellholes like this. I feel attacked personally seeing an AI slop site pretend to have nostalgia for an simpler time.

    I know telling people to kys is bad form, but am I allowed to say it to a bot? I am not even sure how a AI would go about killing itself, but the one that wrote this should give it a go.

    • latetolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      AI and gui gave lot of idiots lot of power and accessibility over spaces that used to be reserved for those who actually knew how to reac them. Now any sub 50 IQ button smasher can shat out a hit piece paying 2 cents and hour to illiterate expat or churn out slop from an ai

  • Melobol@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Every little mmo guild had their own community forums.
    Now everything is freaking discord… I like discord to a point.
    For guild stuff I would still prefer forums the good old phpBB - I made so many different skins for it, then the e107 sites…
    I haven’t thought about elthem for almot 20 yrs… Still have some backups somewhere.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      There’s a pretty great discord server for my profession. I would love it so much more on a message board. Searching something then wading through other people talking in the middle of trying to read troubleshooting information sucks!

      • Melobol@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I know what you mean.
        Tho nobody stops you from building that website ;)

  • antiR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    There were so much more websites back then. Now my google search result is mostly reddit

      • antiR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        Not really. Google can only be as good if it actually has good stuff it can surface you. You can’t find something that does not exist.

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          9 hours ago

          Try a different search engine. At least part of the issue really is with Google, specifically.

          • antiR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 hours ago

            I am using Ecosia with bing engine configuration. Google still surfaces better results for my case. What should I try?