• BussyCat@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    For me personally it was from 2010-2016. It might have just been that I was younger and didn’t care as much what was going on in the world but I still felt like the world was improving. Technology felt like it was making the world better without being overly bombarded with algorithms and ads. A lot of early streaming services were still very affordable and actually good. Online multiplayer games were a great time to play without every game feeling like you need to play full time to keep up with the meta. Sure Russia invaded crimea in that time, and the U.S. was bombing children in the Middle East but compared to today it felt like the world was mostly at peace.

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    Back to the days when there were only a few TLDs… like .net .org .com. I’d then campaign for a law that disallowed any income-seeking behavior … adverts, tracking, cookies, porn, scams, promotion, surveillance … everywhere EXCEPT .com. Break that law, you lose your business and your servers, the CEO does serious time in jail, and noone working for that company is allowed back on the net anywhere until forever.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    The Blackberry era was my favorite. You could do all the important stuff and even check sports scores or breaking news or whatever. You couldn’t really doomscroll because no one had done that yet. Even Facebook — which was just for college students at that point and was legit useful. You could find people in a class you were taking and lived in your dorm and get notes from them if you missed class. And you could just download any song you wanted on Kazaa or whatever. No one’s boss emailed them outside of work hours and expected a response.

    Probably 2003ish? I don’t know what year it all went to shit. But the Internet seemed like a world of possibilities then.

    I’d have also advocated to heavily restrict tlds. Like .org only for real, recognized non-profit organizations.

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    1998-1999, before the internet was opened up for commerce. Or more accurately, back when Netscape was still a viable browser.

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    If I had my way, the Internet never would have existed. Despite the positives, I feel it’s done more harm than good. It had the capacity to do great things and yet we used it to spread misinformation and evil. There is no benefit worth the evil that’s happened due to giving everyone a voice. “Freedom” doesnt come from some obnoxious cunt ranting from their $80,000 truck drivers seat. Burn them, burn them now and let’s move forward.