Remember the early 00s the idea of the web was a community garden? Spaceship Earth 1994 -2006 by Jeremy Irons clearly illustrated the 'new communication tool among us' and it's Global Neighborhood interactive exhibits. Now it's all comic book crap as if somebody or an AI has decided that's all allowed to be discussed. The mic has been shut down and thrown away!
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So many personal sites I used to go to are gone now. Well actually many are still there but just not updated because they receive no traffic thanks to Google. Everything Google touches is like having the Hands Of Midas that wrecks everything.
All part of the plot.
Any site not toeing the Regressive line will get de-indexed or shadow-banned.
It's like that for most major search engines and social media networks.
Just the other day I remembered & dug up the archive of this ancient site featuring someone's anime-styled art & roleplays from way back in the early-to-mid-2000s anime boom - first found it & interacted with the creator back in 2005 or so when I was still a kid, and she was in high school. Crying shame to see how dead it is and how the creator seems to have since dissociated entirely from her past, even now I'm of the opinion that her work wasn't that bad and I recall how you could trace how she put in the effort & improved over the years. Certainly still beats the sanitized, inauthentic crap or outright SJ-tainted dreck you see out of 'creators' on Twitter, Insta, etc. today.
I could say the same about the forums I used to spend most of my waking non-school hours on, now they're at best husks of their former selves who are lucky to have sub-100 members online at any given point in the day when they used to have 2,000+ and at worst they got shut down years ago. The Internet until about 2007-08 was a truly magical place, God I'd kill to have those Wild West days before social media and the smartphone destroyed everything back.
The appification effect. Also the internet centralized.
I remember when I phone came out they pushed it to young women by having ads show liberal looking women all smiling with the phones. It got most emotional women by the hook and reeled them all in. Before Covid many were actually getting rid of their phones. I stopped seeing so many phones in our area for a short time.
I'd say normies got to net, and nerdy ppl learned few aspects: 1)normies will flock to it if its popular and 2)you do not want em to your place
Excellent taste IMO, from the narration to the use of Bach's Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor.
I think the great promise of the Internet was that it would fundamentally alter mass communication from being primarily a one-way flow from powerful content creators to information consumers into a more democratized landscape on a worldwide scale.
Instead we have devices that are designed primarily for consumption. Sites like Reddit are mostly just a peanut gallery discussing "news" handed down from old media. Sites use algorithms to push the content they want to push. At scale it's absolutely the "flood of electronic babble."
Just like he said in the ride the 'Electronic Babble' issue. Which song is the Bach's song? The main theme when the 'AT&T' announcement occurs?
The score is actually based on that sinfonia, the influence of which can be most easily heard at 3:45 with the renaissance music and particularly at 13:40 with the main theme if you look up the soundtrack.
Part of it is that the internet matured and became more interesting to women (social media), and women like to control speech. The other part is that tech giants jumped in bed with the government, like any massive industry tends to do, and now they are almost like one entity.
You'd think that would be a GOOD thing so companies would be held responsible for what they do instead of allowing.......https://youtu.be/Y3-f5yBueWk?t=71 (Spike Jones Blue Danube) "What's more it ain't clean." "trash trash!"
I originally read this sentence as Battlefield Earth and was very confused.
You mean spacejam earth?
Here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Y1HwndX0U sit back and enjoy! Oh and be sure to make a good snack!
The mic got taken away for the same reason every mechanism of communication ends up getting taken away from the average person - people who want power have deemed that many other people simply having Wrong Opinions(tm) and thus should not be allowed to speak.
because we started saying things they didn't want said
The first fall of the 'net was when AOL opened the floodgates for all the normies who could barely run a point-and-drool interface to have access to Usenet and the web at large. We maybe could have weathered that, but in the grand scheme of things it got fucked even harder once smartphones became the norm and it got easier and easier for everyone and their dog to get on the web. In my not so humble opinion, the iPhone really ruined the Internet because it gave every hipster that was stuck in the cult of Apple snobbery easy, immediate access to places like Twitter and tumblr.
And our infrastructure never really got upgraded to handle all the traffic to begin with! We still have barely upgraded from the Bush era!