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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by lynx97 on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:11AM (#43410074)
Ethernal September is actually a thing, so he isn't that wrong. I get the aversion towards elitism... But those of us who used the Internet in the 90s still know what happened when the "masses" started to flood it.
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Re:The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big... by acheron on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:10PM (#43413879)
The original Eternal September was about AOL users getting access to Usenet in 1993. And yet, “people on AOL in 1993” would easily be in, what, the top 5% in quality of Internet users today? Maybe higher?

Hell, your “masses” flooding the Internet in the later 90s were still much better than the population now.

And here’s this guy writing about how bad things had gotten in 2004. Buckle up, buddy: you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Imagine what brave new world the future holds. Never assume things are so bad that they can’t get worse.

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