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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

I miss the real internet, you know, really the real internet was like our eras Summer of Love or Woodstock, that high water mark. The thing about high water marks is they're unstable by nature and definition, hence why all the more you have to enjoy your moment surfing the crest, and savor the memory of having been there. Today? The internet sucks, as you've said, throttled to death. Its actually almost WORSE than cable.

well, no. i went somewhere this morning and they had cable and no, it's not worse. especially during the daytime.

but yes, now that everything is trackable to everybody with a real identity, the internet is not a separate space but just an extension of the same old shit. instead of allowing the creation of new identities and new communities as people theorized in the early eras, the internet just came to reflect/transmit/perpetuate the existing social order. and here comes another linkedin contact request. just like hippies became yuppies.