Does the internet suck now?

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-A little box asking you to accept cookies or advising you of their privacy rules.

-Videos that play automatically

-Big pop up type ads that just cover the page for 5 seconds or so before you can click out

-Others ads just plopped right in the middle of the content

-abundance of ads that are depicted as original content/articles

-technical issues and longer load times caused by all the extra crap.

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There are ways to eliminate most of these issues.

It really does suck.

#1 thing I hate is links to local news sites that want you to watch their stupid video about a story that could be adequately reported in three paragraphs. Eff that.

Yeah I definitely want to go back to the days of 56.6k dialup, waiting 30 seconds for a simple webpage to load.

Not having advanced Google algorithms where you pretty much had to spell search terms correctly, and try about 5 different combinations of terms until you found the right one.

Oh and having go be sitting down at a computer to do all this.


... I do miss these though

I’m thinking y’all don’t remember the buffering shiftiness and slow arsed load speeds of the glory days of RealPlayer and waiting for you porn pics to load. Or pop ups that installed software, then popunders.

I think I still have two floppy disks in the attic. One labeled Jenny McCarthy and the other labeled Pam Anderson.

Eta it took a LONG time to download those pictures

The internet used to be the Wild West, the domain of outlaws and rogues, a wasteland where anything that existed did so because it was forged by the digital hammers of men.

It was a lawless place of pentium pirates and bespectacled thieves. Of silicon pioneers hewing out paths in the virgin wilderness of code.

They were wild outlands, and those men tamed them.

Opened them up and showed the treasures and bounties that lurked there.

And like any new land, brimming with resources, once it has been settled, the latecomers want a piece of the pie.

Governments and businesses seized on the opportunities, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly. It became a boon for those who held the keys to its Navigation and secrets, and the IT nerds made a fortune off the tech illiterate.

But with that, came the demands to sanitize it, corporatize it and make it accessible to the layman.

No longer did it take knowledge of programming, countless hours of nerdsome magic.

Soon the barriers to it were worn down, and it was flooded with ditzes and dorks, soccer moms and travel blogs.

Those who could barely read and write all of a sudden had a platform.


TL;DR: like California, what was once the land of pioneers and scoundrels and treasure hunters slowly became civilized. And with civilization, the digitally weak and vapid demanded to enjoy the fruits without the labors of their planting. And because they did not understand it, and how to grow it, they corrupted and destroyed what was once despicably beautiful with their regulations and holier than thou attitudes.

You left off strangers waiting to ruin the life of other strangers.

Probably should scrub your accounts, delete old posts etc to attempt to avoid that fate in the off chance you become even a remotely public figure.

See the Iowa guy.

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That Cindy Crawford pic taking 6 minutes to load from CompuServe wasn't that bad

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I remember the first time I learned that my browsing history was stored. That was an oh shite moment.

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I remember the first time I learned that my browsing history was stored. That was an oh shite moment

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I still think Google is going to drop all of our Incognito history one day and destroy Western society as we know it.