What happened to the internet, and all its promise?
15 years ago the web was an thriving diverse hub of creativity. People hosted their own websites, and set up forums, and learned HTML, CSS and JS not because it was pushed by the media, or because they thought it would help them get a job, but because they were genuinely interested in it.
These days? 90% of the web is clickbait and walled garden social media. We don't email; we use Facebook messenger. We don't create; we click 'like'. We don't build; we retweet. Everywhere we go, someone is trying to sell us something. It's no longer a commons, but a shopping mall.
>>54800866
Normies
take your pills, grandpa
>>54800884
I'm not your grandpa, son
>>54800866
>Back in my day...
Fuck off retard.
>>54800884
Nigger
>>54800878
This.
>>54800866
people are fucking lazy basically
the majority of the billions of people who gained internet access in the past 10-15 years don't really care about learning and they don't have any original ideas worth sharing either. they just want free endless entertainment and fake simulated socializing. So "tech" companies like Google and Facebook and now Microsoft increasingly just become ad companies because people mindlessly consume online they don't share thought or create original content.
>>54800866
I remember sites like praystation, that kind of exploration was mindblowing. theres nothing like that nowadays.
>>54801090
/g/ - Guro
why did they changed it to Technology damn
>>54801095
Im not OP but i agree, the downfall was brought by msn messenger.
>>54801124
actually laughed out loud
>you coded your own website in html? you are such a nerd anon, stop raping me
>>54800878
>>54800866
Your precious capitalism happened. Now fuck off and go consume something.
>>54801306
Hey, look, it's Liberal-kun to bring us socialism.
I wonder how back in time we would be without capitalism
>>54800878
Indeed.
>>54800866
Women
>>54800866
SJWs like >>54801306
Have you ever made something /g/?
Are you a mindless consumer too?
>>54800866
>We don't email; we use Facebook messenger. We don't create; we click 'like'. We don't build; we retweet. Everywhere we go, someone is trying to sell us something
Just because the latter is occurring doesn't mean the former isn't also.
The internet has exceeded expectations and continues to with every passing day. What has disappointed you is not the internet itself, but the majority of the human race which you are now exposed to through the internet.
>>54801506
Ive made meme edits :^)
>>54801506
I've made websites (taught myself HTML and CSS), forums (I wrote my own in PHP about 12 years ago), flash animations, music, and video game levels.
>>54801534
>taught myself HTML and CSS
wow are you a genius
>>54801586
Well, I couldn't get C to run inside browsers easily.
>>54801608
Are you saying you didn't even try forwarding a shell to your browser to display the output of your C application? Wow, it's like you didn't even try.
>>54800878
First post, best post.
>>54801124
You miss these?
>>54801452
They tried!
But they ll never get!
Wizard 4 evor!!!!
>>54802075
Not really, but if I have to choose this shit where you have to draw and cut shit vs rice my deskdick and rainbow stockings battlestation posts then bring it back!
>>54801090
Loli uprising now
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>54800866
This is the internet you were promised.
>>54802375
It's shit
>>54802403
It was, is, and always will be ... shit.
>>54801364
Not the one you were replying to, but capitalism, especially when unregulated, does have it's downsides. I saw a quote somewhere, can't remember who said it, but it was something like
"Capitalism is the worst economic system in the world, except all the other ones."
>>54802457
Ofc, I agree.
It's just that im sick and tired of this liberal stuff.
Like if we had it then we would live in paradise or something.
>>54800866
So go find the 10% that isnt.
>>54800866
Absolutely nothing is stopping you from doing just that OP. You like most people who like to complain, are just as lazy as every other normie.
In fact there is more to do now than there was before. But guess what, you're here, on 4chan like the rest of us and you will never leave.
>>54803014
Not trolling or anything, in your opinion, what makes 4chan so "special" that ppl find it hard to leave and is it a good or a bad thing?
>>54801306
>Your precious capitalism happened. Now fuck off and go consume something.
No. The participation trophy crowd got old enough to use the internet. Instead of making your own web page they think they should be recognized for picking a customized a wordpress theme, selecting an interesting tumblr name or posting inflammatory things to facebook. Those of use who used be creative in the early days of broadband have grown up to the point that work comes first so we can feed our families and not rely on others to provide for us. There was no one to take our creative place once we moved on.
