• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    The internet in its original concept was great. Unfortunately it wasn’t shaped around profit, so it was quickly remodelled.

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        1 hour ago

        Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things

        I can never tell if that person is writing in that style ironically or not.

        Hold on, let me try it...

        I can’t believe it! My hands are shaking, and I am PHYSICALLY ILL. I’m about ready to scream and I don’t want to say this because nothing will be the same!

        Really!

        It’s like when I wonder WHAT THE FUCK IS TRUMP DOING NOW? I mean this has nothing to do with that, but it’s the same feeling.

        It’s a feeling of Whiskey Tango Fox!!?! I am not exaggerating this! So get ready to hear what I’ve got to say! And what I’ve got to say is:

        Is that person writing in that style ironically or not?

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      10 hours ago

      I remember watching a TV news report in the mid 90s, before Amazon, Netflix, Google even. AOL was a big thing and people with personal computers at home were mostly just messing around. There wasn’t a lot of e-commerce. The news anchor was lamenting that all these people playing on their computers were just a wasting their time “browsing,” as if no activity has value unless it can be monetized.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s important to note the internet is just fine. What was taken from us was the Web. This means we can build something new and cut corpos out of it and no I’m not talking web 3 that was just a grift