nothing was monetized.
Lmao.
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Between SEO and Googles own bullshit finding information online feels like trying to find the milk in a supermarket or the exit in a casino, designed to make you pass through as much bullshit that's completely unrelated to what you actually want as possible.
Yes and no. It's important to remember that people lied and wanted to rage: but it was annonymous and we knew everyone was full of shit so it didn't matter.
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I can literally never use Reddit again but all.my search results keep taking me there
Women used to post sexy photos of themselves just for the joy of getting a few people's attention.
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Facebook only barely an idea mid 2000s?
Most of my friends had ditched MySpace for Facebook shortly after highschool and I graduated in 2003.
I always look back to the 1960s visionaries and their charmingly naive ideas about the future use of computers.
I suspect that if they could have seen the actual future they would have become plumbers.
I remember when the internet was only for nerds.. before it was ruined by the high school cool kids and the jocks
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It feels unsustainable, right? Like the value of of this tsunami of advertising has to be inflated, especially with bots/agents taking over traffic. People’s tolerance for junk isn’t infinite. At some point the illusion has to crack, and the advertising bubble will pop and burn the internet/app ecosystems down, hopefully…
Yeah, there has to be a point when they're going to realize that they're hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.
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The fediverse is similar enough for me :)
I'm so old I remember webrings.
Why do people never mention anything other than YouTube? DailyMotion is trash now but was around then. Veoh was another good one. There were so many other video streaming platforms before YouTube's reign. Some forums still exists. Before Spotify, there was several music streaming platforms also and I'm not talking about LimeWire. playlist.com was legit before and GrooveShark was the Spotify before they decided to kill it off because couldn't profit. So many cool things before capitalism ruined them (e.g. Skype).
Gemini is trying to bring that back.
Although it may not be technically the best approach, the 56k vibe is there.
It ain't years it's months ago...