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So I started using the internet around 95-96 and this was when the internet really started becoming commercialized, but most scrubs still had to go to the library or use their grandmother's PC to get on it. This created something of a natural filter which was a result of the general difficulty and technical know-how involved in getting online or even knowing how to access data once there. The WWW was still new (I believe I was using Spry Mosaic) and you would need to use a search engine like gopher to find anything, most of the good stuff was in usenet. Well now we find ourselves in what I refer to as the "shitbag internet age" where the majority is no longer using it for research/academia. This is a natural progression from capitalism and marketing, and only makes sense. However let us take a look at the implications of this for culture. In this shitbag age there is no longer any form of social filtering, anyone can post anything, anywhere, and any scrub can simply "hang out" on a forum which caters to a social group they wish to be part of. So for example you have people who are slipknot and marilyn manson fans diluting and contaminating circles of fans of completely polar opposite music such as aphex twin, and posting all manner of mindless garbage and that their opinions should be taken seriously, and creating all kinds of arguments and flame wars over stupid irrelevant crap, doing dumb shit like creating threads about politics on a electronic music forum, and acting like they are the center of attention. This is troubling to people who remember a time back when it could be argued that only smart people used the internet. It was almost a sense of optimism in the human race, that the internet could provide a place for it to progress and creativity thrive. Unfortunately that has proven not to be the case, and the majority of humans are just shitbag consumers, incessantly tearing down any sense of goodwill that might be left. |
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this also leads to such travesties as dubstep and people remixing britney spears and actually getting props for it so pathetic |
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"acting like they are the center of attention" "acting like they are the center of attention" "acting like they are the center of attention" |
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bla bla bla... Handjob post some oldschool acid, stop annoying us all with those mind farts! |
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as someone who actually used gopher and UUCP and that bullshit, i'm honestly just glad i was there for it. i made some decent spending money selling pirated music and software to classmates before P2P got invented. i get the eternal september blues too, but i snap out of it fast: IRC is still there, usenet is still there, and that shit is now so old it's gone back to the nerds on many levels. old, deep tubes, rip sen. stevens. p2p took all the heat off crusty old XDCC bots, netflix, VPNs, and peering spats now take the heat off p2p. no doubt the interwebs is now jam choc full of plonkers, but if you have half a clue you can dodge all of that. unlike physical space, there's always a way to create your own sheltered space on the internet -- private IRC server, hidden forum with a robots.txt, whatev. just don't post it on reddit. |
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back in my day everyone on the internet was smart |
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