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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is going to be the Idiocratizing of the internet.

That happened in September of 1993.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

93/94 was when I first got AOL on a 14.4k modem. I’m one of those shitty users!

We used to use gopher and college FTP sites to download warez as a freshman in HS, and then moved on to Hotline trackers.

[–] Pronell 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I was too. The internet was never for normies or businesses and between the two of them they've managed to turn it into a complete dumpster fire.