As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever

Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by spc476 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:27PM (#25155618)

Became clear to you after November of 2010? Harumph I say, harumph! It became clear to me in September of 1993!

Kids these days! Get off my lawn!

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by h_spacer on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:01PM (#25157192)

The internet today is terrible is a meme I remember being told by my fathers comp sci professor in 1993 when the WWW was starting.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by Melting_Harps on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:00PM (#25166146)

> Kids these days! Get off my lawn!

You will be glad to know that I was on newsgroups nearly a decade after 'Eternal September,' but I was eventually there.

2010 was 2 years after the emergence of the Iphone and the shift from the Internet being mainly PC-centric to the massive paradigm shift to mobile. Myspace and facebook were already a thing, but I really think it was that paradigm shift that made the pan-opticon, ad driven system we see now.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by hinkley on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:40AM (#25158148)

How’s that green card coming along?

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by spc476 on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:06AM (#25158994)

That was 1994. 1993 was when AOL let its members access the Internet.

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