Completely agree.

I didn’t get to see so much of “that internet”, but I’m old enough to remember the difference. Oddly, most people I know either don’t remember that period of it, or deliberately deny that there even is a difference, which I find deeply frustrating…

It’s also being forced to use digital means to do stuff which is actually easier to do analog - like, say, physically submitting an assignment by hand (not necessarily handwritten, but at least existing on paper, lol), vs being forced to put the entire thing through Turnitin or similar, myself, and then not allowed to submit until it is below a certain score…

Even for a pure maths subject….

That was a shock when I went back to Uni, I’ll tell you that much.

It’s pure laziness on the part of the assessor, too…

See also: subjects that assign you “McGrath Hill Connect” or similar, as a task, which require no marking on the part of the teacher whatsoever…

Or the gutting of entire libraries, to put in more “own device” spaces, collaborative or otherwise…

These changes only really happened post-2016 (that I saw), they’re entirely reliant on “the new internet”, and they’re really, really worrying…

Most “government services” (licenses, forms, etc) where I am can no longer be accessed in person now, too. Which is fucking awful, when the online system doesn’t do what you want it to, or whatever…