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    pays for own domain/no ads

    There is a 0% chance you were an adult in the early 2000s lol

    Imagine having ads in things but instead of just being there, they opened in new windows, were loud as fuck, and opened by the hundreds. That’s what the Internet was like

    Pop up blockers walked so ad blockers could run.

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      There is a 0% chance you were an adult in the early 2000s lol

      I’m 49, dude. And the meme isn’t about “the internet”. It is literally about the difference between people sharing stuff back then and “creating content” today. Shitty internet parts have always been shitty, but at least people didn’t try to monetize even their beloved ones’ death.

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        I’m 49 dude

        Then you should remember these days more accurately.

        People make social media posts instead of geocities pages these days. Content creators are more like the people who used to sell content online than they are the average chucklehead who made a geoshitty page.

        People you see with lots of Twitter followers are exactly akin to people who ran pages on free hosting websites. When they link their merch, it’s exactly like how blogs and shit would sell merch.

        Youre looking at this with glasses so rosy they’re completely blinding.

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        When I was 18 I was pretty dumb, yeah. I once totally destroyed a hard drive by corrupting a file trying to make my PC background the “Anal Destruction” website logo

        Young people are dumb man.

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          Yeah, so you missed that what OP talked about was very real. We had much more of those sites based on sharing, and they were much more at the front of the internet.

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            There were absolutely not more websites based on sharing in the early 2000s lol

            You are literally on one of the very many websites dedicated to it, today, while bemoaning it’s absence

            Some of the sharing sites from the 2000s monetized themselves and that upsets you. I have no issue with that. There are many alternatives because what he said is false. Go use one of them.

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              Bro that’s anecdotally false, there were so many ham, electronics and random research sites I perused on angelfire and geocities.

              Quality varied greatly, but lots of thought went into making posts, diagrams were sometimes done in ASCII art which was its own headache.

              Point is, I don’t agree with your take, and I don’t think my similarly aged friends would agree either. Internet of late 90s/y2k wasn’t an ad-free utopia, but the point was more about conversing and sharing info.

              Lemmy is an attempt to return to that original intent, modernized as it must be.

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                You may want to give “HAM radio forums” a Google.

                I don’t care if you agree. I care what’s correct. The Internet is many times larger than I was 20+ years ago, and all the same free networks exist. The really popular ones got big and monetized.

                That’s just how success works with anything.

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                  Hmm? Your argument and thinking processes both seem clouded.

                  Ham radio forums still exist, as they previously did. Did you miss the gist, that information exchange was more of a prime focus vs making money by cramming ads everywhere? Obviously yes.

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                    Except it isn’t, and all those resources exist for free.

                    The Internet was once a niche space as a whole and now it is a large, omnipresent space with more niche spaces than before

                    It’s really not complicated. This is just Boomer Humor for millennials.