Most of my old playlists are missing a ton of videos that have been taken down over the years. Worst of all you can't even look up what those videos were called to search them somewhere else.
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Controversial opinion: the Internet didn't die, you just got left behind.
Gotta keep up. The edge of culture is always moving and trying to stay put is a guarantee that you'll miss out.
The community of memes is more varied and nuanced than leekspin ever was. There's more lowbrow comedy sure but there's more of all types of content.
If you only see shit you hate online it's your fault. Go find places you enjoy (for me that's lemmy, as an example) and teach your algorithm to stop showing you rage bait by not falling for it.
Tiktok has plenty of problems but if you teach the algorithm that the only reason you're there is absurdism and the bizarre: you'll end up with an absurd and bizarre feed.
Yeah but you can only get controlled absurdist bizarre stuff. It's not people recommending things to you, it's an algorithm that's controlled by people with dubious intentions.
Sure you'll see memes and funny stuff, but only the ones that have been approved by an unseen algorithm. So it's the appearance of randomness, but not actually random.
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For real. Dude is claiming old memes used to be creative while using leek spin as the example.
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I feel the same about the early (home) internet (years 1994-1999). Adverts if they even existed on a page were just a few lame gifs on a page. IRC and usenet were the "social media" of the time, except no-one called it that. Almost everyone online was as much of a geek as you (except AOL users), because the hoops to get online were significant enough to keep most normal people away. Businesses were convinced it was a fad, so didn't get too involved.
It was basically universities, students and a handful of modem owners that could get a TCP/IP stack to work and write a login script (ppp was quite rare in the beginning).
Rose-tinted glasses? Maybe, but there's a lot not to like about the modern internet.
Stop, you're making me cry.
I set up one of the first Echomail and Fidonet nodes in my country and was pretty active in the days the internet started. It was such a community effort, and seeing people start to grab hold and use it was a complete rush. To see what it turned into is utterly heartbreaking, but I guess it was predictable.
I see everyone talk about how we need to drive Linux adoption, and I get scared as fuck about what that would mean to Linux in 20 years. I don't want to see that community vaporize the same way.
I loved the old BBS community. I used to run an Amiga based BBS (also on Fidonet, I would say my node number, but it can still be looked up today, and we used real names so...). One day I had a drive failure and lost pretty much everything. No problem, said another Amiga BBS operator in my city. Bring your new HDD over and we'll copy over my downloads folder.
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Bassboost and deepfrying are already outdated and old memes by now
Influncer didn't exist yet? I think young mind OP just didn't understand that he was market to lol
I mean, I can't speak to OP in particular, but there were definitely lots of years where people made shit for free, sold nothing, and didn't consider it a job.
Like, there was no real mechanism for stick figure martial arts animations to make any money at all. Newgrounds or Ebaum's World must have made some money from ads, but I don't think any of that was profit-shared with the creators back in those days. Some of the creators were straight up anonymous because they didn't even think to put their names on their stuff.
Obviously celebrities and ads and stuff still existed on the earth at the time, but it didn't spread to the internet in a big way until later.
At least that's how I remember it...
Newgrounds or Ebaum's World must have made some money from ads, but I don't think any of that was profit-shared with the creators back in those days.
Ebaums actually decompiled flash animations to remove watermarks added by the creators just so they could keep all the ad revenue for themselves.
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We live in an internet.
Anyone remembers Z0R or P0WN ??? That was ART, killed by the discontinuation of Flash. I archived all of this and in 40 years I'm doing a Gallery in the Metaverse.
Used to love z0r. Oh man, nostalgia hits hard.
Yeah, if used to be people made a comfortable living and if they had the time, shit posted on YouTube. Now to have time to make YT content you have to try to make a profit from it.