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@DrChickenbeer I was on Reddit 17 years ago when all the posts were about Lisp and Python programming. If you asked anyone on the site during any given era, the golden age was when they first understood what the site was about.
I dimly remember visiting reddit in the mid 2000s and it seemed to be some programmers sharing pictures of beer.
I remember in 1978 when Reddit was called "did you read it?" and was a dude in his basement with a typewriter and a Ditto machine, you subscribed to the "submersible read its", he mailed you the "postages" on smelly, purple printed paper, and you could write down and mail your replies and "upward votes" and he would compile them and print them and mail them back and you could argue about the best trim level of the Ford Pinto for WEEKS.
Ah the good old days. Did cost an arm in postage stamps tho.
That’s true about jobs and life
Absolutely. The golden period is always the exact moment you discovered it, whatever it is, and as soon as you become more familiar with it and begin to see flaws, you perceive a decline.