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Google SEO has homogenized the internet with vapid marketing content. The internet is one big commercial. The reason Reddit got popular was because communities found and shared good content and created more by talking about it. Now ads are disguised as posts and memes.
The internet is getting as bad as radio.
Lemmy kinda feels like the 2000's internet and I love it
edit: formatting
i didn't get to experience the 2000s internet and I've been loving lemmy
The whole internet used to be like this and it was lovely.
Let's not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:
Half-done html pages with
under_construction.gifor cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal 'Media' volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?
It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. "Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600" was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.
You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that
tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.That was more the 90s - the time of things like Geocities - than the 2000s.
By the 2000s there had already been one Internet Boom & Bust and things on the Internet were way more comercialized than is earlier times of handmade sites, pre-CSS webpages and ActiveX components.