• Ultrawide1654@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I’ll join you in that (probable) delusion. Life was so much better, the internet was better, climate was better , TV was better.

    Of course I was younger and not as cynical and fucking tired of everything so that might explain my feelings

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      That all predates an algorithm that wants to make you angry. The internet was better before people got good at squeezing every cent out of it.

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      TV: mainstream streaming services didn’t exist and you were forced to watch whatever was on cable, unless you were one of the early movie pirates.

      Internet: dialup, shitty DSL, poorly designed web 1.0 sites. Need I say more?

      Life: yes, you were young and not cynical yet. That’s why it seemed better. As a fully grown adult in the early 2000s, things were not that different. I had the Iraq invasion, Bush, and the “war on terrorism” to be angry about.

      You got me on the climate thing though.