rstevens 🐳💨✅i’m so old, i remember when going on the internet made you smarter.
Marty Fouts@rstevens I have been on the net since 83 and I can’t recall such a time. But then, before the net there was Usenet with its alt hierarchy.
Russell@MartyFouts @rstevens Nostalgia for the past is rooted in a rememberance of privilege without responsibility, when costs and consequences were externalized, when restrictions only applied to other, unseen and unknown, folks.
The belief that economics or knowledge or systems are neutral because the policies of the time happen to be favorable for the presenter.
In our youth when our parents provided for and shielded us.
tl;dr: Same.
derptron@MartyFouts @rstevens There used to be a time when you had to be smart enough NOT to spend all day figuring out how to "decrypt" base64 to see the image someone just randomly posted to a comp group.
I learned this the hard way of course, because the Internet made me no smarter at all (except teaching me base64, C++, etc...). You can't even mention that old goat from christmas island now that the internet is so bottled up and safe :p