chris.messleyMay 12, 2023
Adrianna Tan

If the Internet of the 90s and early 00s was about listening to each other through cans, and finding connections:

"Facebook is like a can within the can that pipes in all the cans but makes decisions about which cans I want to hear and most of the cans are foreign spies anyway.

Twitter is like all the cans, all at once but also if Elon musk’s can had the thickest wire attached to it and I can’t turn it off and also the can is breaking."

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-i-want-from-the-internet

#Links #OpenWeb

What I Want From The Internet - Christopher Butler

I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina, USA. When I look out the window, I can see the edges of homes nearby, peeking

May 11, 2023 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadMudManMay 12, 2023

@skinnylatte I keep having to remind people out here that the Internet in the 90s used to be about all those things... and drive-by images of gore and pornography.

I mean, look, maybe that was preferable to social media in general destroying democracy, but let's not idealize it. The default mode of 90s Internet was basically 4chan.