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    1 year ago

    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.

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                Very nice, would you like a cookie? Now that your hangry has been settled, try clarifying your murky premise again.

                Mine is that the ratio of websites that freely shared info vs those that did so with an underlying goal of making revenue by advertising was very large vs very small.

                “Boomer humor for millennials”? I’m laughing, but not for the reason you’d hoped for.

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                  Mine is that the ratio of websites that freely shared info vs those that did so with an underlying goal of making revenue by advertising was very large vs very small.

                  This is still true.

                  The paid websites are simply more advertised.

                  No idea where you’re going with the rest.

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                    I don’t think you understand what we’re disagreeing on any longer, if ever. So let’s just let it be, and may I humbly suggest meditation as a way to clarify thinking.