Diseases like Hep C were actually cured (a personal favourite counter to people who think medicine doesn't cure anything any more). Plenty of good things have happened, it's just you can spin any tech improvement as 'actually dooming us all' if you want to.

You have to admit that the internet was more fun when it was enthusiasts expressing themselves, though. That’s the point of the post.

Yes :)

perhaps people here who haven't seen it should go check out https://neocities.org/

I created a site there dedicated to a video game I played as a child:

https://laserblast.neocities.org/

It was a lot of fun to build.

I had to use CSS to implement a <blink> equivalent.

There's so many amazing sites people have made on Neocities. I personally didn't have the ethos and dedication to stick with it, but the fusion of creativity and technical skill makes it something else.

Aren’t places like TikTok full of enthusiasts actively expressing themselves?

TikTok is filled popularity enthusiasts. That is their only concern: winning the algorithm lottery. It is a completely different environment than the web prior to 2.0. I... would hope you would know this?

I’m sure you know the motivation of every TikToker. And in the old days, no one tried to promote their website or find viewers? I guess the reason for web rings and why every little page had a view counter had nothing to do with wanting to be seen?

Or maybe your chauvinism make you think that showing of some technical prowess (because HTML with a bit of ecma script was really hard), is for some reason more valuable than dancing, singing, crafts or stupid jokes?

Hep B is still not curable, and unfortunately, there is still a high stigma that it's sexual related disease while a vaccine exists.

Gwern.net has got you covered: https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

Duke Nukem Forever was actually released

Also, 9/11, and war on terror started (and never ended I guess, terror is still around)

"Oh yeah, we drone-striked that wedding party, but trust us, these guys were horrid!"

Yessir! Nothing wins you respect and admiration among the "liberated" population faster than extra-judicial killings!

This comment needs to be accompanied by a soyjak.

Sorry, what was that? I have a job and a wife and kids so I'm not always up on the latest internet memes.

It's one of a set of image macros people with no personality use to express their feelings on something. Like an emoji, but it signals the user is insufferable and hangs out with equally obnoxious people. Often paired with that frog that was so abused by twits that the comic's creator killed the character off.

Pepe is still a beautiful soul if you ask me. He didn't deserve all that awfulness that happened in his name.