margotMay 24, 2025
i dont think the world was better or worse before the internet so much as the internet gave us all a brief glimpse of a world without the conventional logics of capital before capital was able to catch up
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@emaytch I wouldn't even say that. People tend to underestimate how commercialized even the early Internet tended to be.
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@Video_Game_King oh i mean it definitely was-- banner ads covering websites has been a joke basically as long as i can remember-- but bc it was still novel and most ppl's ideas of how to interact with it was based in old concepts, it was possible to stay ahead of most of the corporate internet if you cared to. now the digital natives are in charge, and that's no longer possible