Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

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Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

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@molly0xfff In the "good old days" the Internet was slow and clunky, it was also charming and personal. People were doing things for the hack it of it, for fun, experimenting. In other words, the Internet was for people not eyeballs. When DSL rolled out there was a brief time when the Internet was actually good. Google was just a good search engine. Amazon was starting with Web Services. Facebook was a place to "poke" old friends. Then money and advertising came, along with governments psyops.