What went wrong with it?
NORMIES INVADED. It happened to the Usenet, to MUDs, to IRC, to MMORPGs, to everything. Normies ruin everything!
Actually, this is that one time where I'll say normies unironically. Shit got fucking ruined when your average person decided to take advantage of what they used to see as nerdy and counter culture.
>>29577665
>Time
More specifically
>People
>Bureaucracy
>Greedy ISP's
>Empires (Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, et cetera)
>Child Pornography and moral Crusaders
>Surveillance/Nanny State(s)
tl;dr
>Time
Some things got better (affordability/speed) Other things got worse(The above, and the addiction to information/consequences thereof)
>>29577665
We grew up.
Original comment this time.
>>29577789
Ah, the naivety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4KZHDVWRE
>>29577899
I remember my first experience with the internet
I remember back in Grade 3 we were going to go on a field trip to the art gallery. He asked everyone in class to bring $5 in the next day so that we could pay for our fees. The day after we gave him the money he got online and showed us pictures of art on some art website
Asshole stole fucking $150
It rapidly went from an anarchist's utopia to corporative fascist conglomerates holding all the power.
>>29578086
i bet your teacher is a jew.
>>29577665
It ruined many a life
>>29578177
Pakistani or middle eastern I think
>>29577789
>>29578086
I remember years ago being told never to put my personal details online. Now I'm expected to provide an address to place a pick-up order for pizza, Facebook sign-ins are pushed on almost every site, and just about everything asks for your real name and date of birth.
>>29578086
Holy shit this is the scummiest thing I've read all week from here
>>29577665
No decentralized storage protocol.
IPFS would have fixed everything if it had been implemented from the start instead of HTTP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Letting Zuckerberg/Bezos carve it up and enclose their little normie resource extraction farms is what killed it.
Women got on it
>>29578794
Well, that + social media.
Anonymity was a good bulwark against the pussy pass, but now of course they're screeching for us all to be hanged.
I think the Internet is even worse for women than males, though. They really don't have the mental sophistication to distinguish fantasy from reality and are like parakeets attacking a mirror.
