Also, fuck xfinity and their BS. Can’t even change wifi password without downloading an app.

  • Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    You are wise beyond your years. In respect I look at the late 90s as maybe my favorite period when the Internet was mostly run by (and used by) smart engineers and techies and not corrupted by misinformation and data mining. IRC was great at doing what discord does today. The web still had fun stuff and shareware was great to explore. Broadband was ramping up so speed was good for people who had it.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Thank you, but I’m getting on a bit now. I’d settle for my wiseness approaching my years!

      I’m not sure I have favourite internet decade. Even today has it’s upsides. Probably more open code used running and accessing the internet now than ever. But we now have new problems!

      I know smart people, who have used the internet to achieve a high technical skill set, who also believe some pretty crazy conspiracy stuff. Infectious miss-information is everywhere and no one is safe.