172 Kids will never get to experience the fun of the old internet (early-2000s) which was just people testing crazy ideas, blowing off steam and making jokes. Now it’s one giant mutual surveillance machine where everyone is collectively deputized to seek out thought crimes. (twitter.com) posted 3 years ago by axolotl_peyotl 3 years ago by axolotl_peyotl +172 / -0 42 comments share 42 comments share save hide report block hide replies
You should have seen it back in the early 1990s... IRC, Usenet, etc. Mostly freedom-loving intellectuals and hacker types... pre-woke university libertarians and cyberpunks... with few rules or centralized authorities.
You should have seen it before the Internet. Fido, Bluewave, Compuserve, Xmodem, JANET.
I remember going on some pretty crazy f-servers on mIRC back in the mid to late 90's.
I never started using torrents until the 2010's because I was still using Usenet to get all my "data". Usenet was great!