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
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machines

@emaytch

The Internet allowed all the village idiots to have a village.

May 24, 2025 at 10:15pmWeb
Show threadmike805May 26, 2025

@n_dimension @emaytch The early Internet (pre-AOL) provided an idiot-free village. There were loons and nuts on, but few idiots, because you had to be smarter than the average monkey to get the thing to work!

Then AOL got USENET support. That was where the downward slide began.