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Tying up the landline phone with their dialup modem.
Polio… well they might actually, depending on how anti-science their parents are and if they live in one last two pockets of it, Pakistan and Afgjanistan.
Having to wind back a cassette or vcr with a paperclip or spoon if the strip got tangled, or even just having to wait for the player to forward/rewind
Clean freshwater.
Or rivers so polluted the catch on fire.
I feel personally attacked by this comment.
The internet in it’s heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.
I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of ‘The big dummies guide to the internet’ which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you’d find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.
I would limit it to the “web” in it’s heyday. The internet as a whole is more wild than ever. And there’s a chance that the fediverse could be just as thrilling in 10 years as the web was 20 years ago (and could be swamped by corporate interests).
I don’t think the internet is getting less thrilling and weird, if anything it’s downright scary at this point, it’s just really easy to enter a walled garden, never leave, and never find the interesting stuff.
in its* heyday
If you like gopher, you’re gonna love Gemini: https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
I’ve been keeping half an eye on it for a while, I should probably give it a go again.
in its* heyday
Do you use this? I’ve been thinking that there has to an underground “internet” that mimics the old web. I was thinking that it would be BBS or something. I haven’t gone down any rabbit hole yet because lemmy has been scratching the itch alright.
No I used Gemini for a bit which is a newer protocol trying to deliver that old school way of internet
Any good links you can recommend?
Working in coal mines. Well, actually, nevermind…
"Minecraft is proof that banning child labor was wrong. The children yearn for the mines "
Good thing Roblox exists nowadays. It’s not a coal mine, but there’s lots of exploitative child labor there!
Doing stuff with friends, undocumented.
It’s really a bad time to be young and stupid.
So a bad time to be young
A year as cool as the one they were born in
Life before computers and internet.
Being able to chalk off the often embarrassing or cruel lessons of childhood as something personal, rather than something someone saved in video, to hound you with for the rest of your life.
Living off the grid. A world where AI and data collection wasn’t so massive that even not participating in anything they will have a full profile of you. Data will become compromised until everything leaks out everywhere. When abusive powers will mathematically make future decisions for you, e. g. a. negative personality-health profile which makes a college dropout almost certain and therefore deny you the choice. People think in absolutes and not even partial success is viable. Just like now big corporations have such narrow application profiles that every human not built in a genetic factory is not worth it. I think the world becomes rapidly more hostile to neurodivergence. And all will suffer from it, because thinking diversity is key.
Snow days. Instead it’s now "pull out your laptops to get on zoom. I once was off an entire week or so bc of a massive snowstorm. Downside, the sewer line underneath our apartment burst and we couldn’t stay home that entire week.
Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
I’d say it’s as extreme
I mean change mb to gb and it’s the same story today.
“apparently my sister picked up the phooone! Aarrg! $!#@t”
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
Remember download managers?
What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I’m not denying anything
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
This think that was basically a P2P downloader.
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something that’s only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesn’t seem to give a shit though because they’re still advertising that the building has “up to 100mb/s” wifi speeds.
1kB/h is still “up to 100mb/s” so he’s not wrong.
Kids three days won’t get to experience par files
Walking in to an honest-to-god Toy Store as a small child.
R.I.P. Geoffrey
The App Store not being filled with predatory trash
I completely stopped playing games on my phone cos of that
It’s so hard to find remotely good games now… I have hit the point that I don’t even bother looking at anything but paid offline games but even those often have microtransctions. I am glad that you can get a refund most of the time as long as you only used it less than an hour.
There’s a curated list of no-bullshit mobile games which are real fun, without any microtransactions: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Mobile Gaming can be fun. :)
Awesome, thanks!
When you look for mobile game recommendations in certain communities (like Reddit) you know the store ranking is fucked.
A time when AI wasn’t involved with everything.
Remember that time when humans had to do everything, and if there weren’t enough people around to do it, then nobody do it.
