- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.
https://12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
When they put up a 10 foot wall, use a 12 foot ladder
And when they add 3 feet of plastic, use archive.ph
It’s not paywalled for me. Clear cookies for this domain or use an adblocker.
That doesn’t mean it’s not paywalled. Just that you have the knowledge and the means to climb over that wall. Not all people have.
If you don’t know how to problem solve, then maybe the internet isn’t for you. Just use reader mode in Firefox… Duh
I wasn’t talking about myself. I was talking from the perspective is an average person.
Copy and paste it then
Lemmy comment has a character limit.
Oh geez
Also parents taking over something fun.
I’m a parent that grew up on the internet. Remember that many of us who grew up on ICQ and Geocities to Napster and the somethingawful forums and beyond are now approaching 40.
Today’s parents and grandparents are 1993’s internet kids. Some of us, anyway.
Because it’s run by companies and not people like before. Because the original internet community grew and they prefer being in family and outside.
I miss the days of NewGrounds, Miniclip, and Kongregate.
I miss Flash games on browsers. Limewire. YouTube before influencers.
I miss the joy of StumbleUpon back when the web was exciting and unique.
Whenever I think of the good old days of the internet (like 2000-2009) I think of using stumbleupon and finding the best and most random stuff.
Thankfully we can still enjoy the flash games online at least. http://www.flashgamearchive.com/
Thank you, but it wasn’t the games themselves. It was the people I shared that time with.
I think that’s when the Internet started going to shit. When people started using it for shameless self-promotion. I miss MySpace, and GeoCities.
I miss the SomethingAwful forums from 2004
Ah, fuck I miss the goons, too. I still log in every couple of years or so. It’s sort of like walking down a street you used to live on. It’s all still familiar, but nothing is really the same.
I have a CD somewhere that I burned a few miniclip games onto. Also the combo number 5, which did NOT age well. (And was kinda unacceptable when it was new)
The internet I grew up with and loved couldn’t survive having the whole population on it. It became about making money off the userbase, political manipulation, and addictive distractions. It’s success killed it.
It was such a fun and fanciful place.
The unattainable is unknown at Zombo com!
I miss the solar death ray.
Ask the people that had you put a paywall on the article, writers and editors of New Yorker!
The internet is tons of fun
I will leave this for the kids.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Spreed 42.zip, renamed in boobs.zip, in Facebook and you’ll see how funny the internet can be.
Don’t pretty much all modern .zip managers know to not open zip bombs anymore?
No, clicking on a zipfile make work a zip manager. But most AV identify the zip file as badware if it scan it. How many user scan downloaded files with an AV up to date, before open or use it? Or an atached file in the mail? Well, 42.zip is pretty known and you can download it from GitHub, but there are still zip bombs made and in use, even to eliminate AV protections, because it put the AV in a infinite loop in the intent to scan it, if it is a ZOD which isn’t in the definition base of the AV, blocking and overloading the system, because of this they are still dangerous.