I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.
Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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I don’t know what’s going on here or why that looks like Ron Livingston, but I upvoted it anyways.
it’s a Reddit link…but that’s how far back it goes
it was the ONLY video Ron Livingston uploaded to YouTube. & that’s Ron Livingston’s head icymi and just hanging out
- fails to elaborate
- never uploads again
It's nice when artists realize they've peaked.
But he did post again! 6 years ago telling people to vote
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Back when the internet was just cat videos it was all upvotes always.
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issue is it will collapse into neofeudalism, where the Czar Executive Officier of your network city will demand you work 16 hours every day, or he will send you to the wellness farms working 18 hours a day.
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I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that'd be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.
That would have required self-reflection, self-love, and not falling head-first into the absurdities of an Ayn Rand-ripoff who called himself Mencius Moldbug.
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I left reddit for lemmy and now lemmy is just the same people complaining about the same stuff. What happened to cat pics, pirates, and robots?
I think it's kinda hard to find spaces where people are gonna be willfully ignorant of the issues currently plaguing our lives. Sure, everyone wants a break from it and not think about it the latest infringement on our rights but outrage fatigue is something we need to be aware of.
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Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?
Is it me, or is this ironically old meme designed to dismiss whatever the user says?
I miss the old internet
Before the corporations colonized it
The good old days of: "cat, i'm a kitty cat and i dance dance dance and i dance dance dance"
The joys of learning HTML to impress your high school crush with autoplay music on your MySpace profile...
It's borderline difficult to live day to day knowing what's going on at every moment.
You know how millennials and Gen z can't even image working one job that's minimum wage to buy a house and support a family.
Soon the generations after us won't be able to image a fun internet that's not filled with ads and controlled by 5 companies.
I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.
Same.
Such a good jam.
Damn, I wish I had access to the early internet. What was it like? I didn't even get internet until I immigrated to the US in like around the 2010s, so I had no idea what internet was like before that.
It wasn't commodified nearly to the extent it is now, so a large portion of it existed merely because of people's passion. There were no super sites of information like reddit, so people would create their own websites and forums dedicated to one subject. Forums still had their arguments, but it wasn't nearly as vitriolic as social media is now. Search really, really sucked until Google came along. Slow as balls.
the good news is, often times those old forums are still up. so if you're doing a very niche hobby, like trying to outfit your '05 nissan sentra with a turbocharger for some reason, there are forums talking about it. you might even be able to respond to the threads. who knows.
We also didn't rely on the internet as much as a resource. Like of course you would do some of your research online, but if you were really working on something serious, you went to the library!
Everything was somewhere in between https://slashdot.org/, https://ytmnd.com/, and 4chan.
The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.
The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn't like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.
Yeah the internet now is so much nicer. And I don't just mean the corporate spaces with the edges sanded off, but the indie web, fediverse, and random forums. There used to be this incredibly toxic masculinity that crept into everything.
A lot of us have also grown up. I know because I'm still in a forum with people I've known online from 20+ years ago, where we used to post the most heinous, edgy shit.
It's not the early internet, but a lot of websites in the 00s (when I started using it) let you customize your profile. We all had horrible CSS and an autoplay song that only we liked on our Myspace profiles and it was great. Flash was both a buggy mess that could introduce viruses to your computer and an amazing outlet for creativity that I don't think has been replaced. It was a lot less centralized and you were only being tracked across the whole internet by the NSA and not every internet company too.
Edit: I should say that I lose a bit of nostalgia every time I see forum posts from that era though, the casual bigotry was everywhere and so obnoxious
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You can still watch cat videos, they're just sandwiched in between hell and sadness to keep you scrolling.
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The internet
"I can do both"
One of my earliest experiences with the Internet was seeing a picture of a country girl in cowboy boots with a carrot up her ass and an ear of corn stretching her pussy. It was 1991. I also played bridge with people in Asia in the middle of the night.
Filtering Youtube by 12+ years ago is a wild ride.
For those curious, just add "before:2010" (replace 2010 with whatever year you want) to your search query.
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If MySpace hadn't gone away, it would just be like Facebook is now anyway.
It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX's parent company) in 2005.
The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the "Rich Men North of Richmond" techno remix.
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Yea we'd just call it nazispace or something
For better or worse, content moderation was almost nonexistent. On those 100s of forums and websites you could see just about anything. The degenerate and shock culture thrived as much as all the other random stuff. People can still find terrible things out there but now there's real effort to police and control the platforms. The big players don't let the REALLY terrible stuff on their systems. Rotten.com is always what I reference. There used to be porn, TV shows, and movie, on YouTube. Copyright was a suggestion and free use was everywhere for homemade music videos and downloads. There was also less effort to protect children. There are still issues today but widely the internet is at least devided into more age appropriate spaces. Those spaces get invaded but it's not how it was back then. In the 90s or early 00s you were assumed to be an adult if you were online. If you were smart you kept it that way. There was generally no avoidance if you were a minor like today.
That's not to say the protections that exist today are perfect. It is more so just the fact that they exist at all, and at least for appearances, an effort is made.
Internet back then kind of had a flea market / bazaar vibe. It really was that old west feel.
There are SO many levels of Terms of Services that help keep the modern internet clean. We didn't have that back then. Before monetization. These days, you have your ISPs, search engines, and domain hosts all working to keep things clean at a secondary level, before you even get to the website. Rotten.com can't exist today as easily because it would have to find a host that would allow it's content. Then it would have to be searchable, not end up a blacklisted domain on the forums, and also have protection from digital attacks, and THEN it's content would have to be regulated to make sure it doesn't break laws to get shut down. It could not exist today how it did back then.
Back then, rotten.com was as easy to find as asking jeeves, or yahoo to show you a dead body. The whole internet was that. No laws no shared mortality.
Long before anyone had a PCs or servers beefy enough for internet video, we still had tiny gifs. And before that, we all just had our own websites all over the web which you could make entirely your own, for free or for cheap. And it was awesome. <blink> tags everywhere!
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I really miss that era of the internet.. Myspace was fun and everybody's, typically awful, profile had so much character. Felt like you really got to know the people you hung out with on there. I'll never forgive my shitty friend for convincing me to switch to Facebook lol
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