Play us all off keyboard cat
And porn… definitely porn
I remember times before cat videos. Times when even porn was scarce on the Internet. Those were the times of technical discussions. Without crazy religious fanatics, without rabid political idiots, without degeneratively stupid kids.
Those were the times…
ASL?
I remember asking this in a Discord server (ugh) a couple of years ago. The response? “Can you please refrain from asking such personal questions in this server.”
I miss the old days. Also fuck Discord.
No, I can hear. Why?
Lol. Ok I’ll try: A/S/L?
Can you write with words? Google suggests only something sex-related on this abbreviation/formula/whatever. No, I won’t have sex with you.
Not knowing the ASL prompt casts some doubt on your claim to remember the internet back then. Knowing someone’s age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn’t the aim.
So that ASL is just a question about how old I am and where I live? Why not ask this straightforwardly especially after I claimed that I don’t understand the question?
English isn’t my first language. Not even a second one. You can’t expect me to know all the slang/abbreviations/etc.
I’m 40. From Eastern Europe.
Knowing someone’s age, sex and location was some useful context even if dating wasn’t the aim.
It wasn’t.
ASL was extremely useful. We only had usernames, no profile pictures or anything else. ASL is what you asked if you were chatting on quakenet or another server. Most of the time you knew the regulars on your channel. Often mods would ask your ASL and if it turned out later you were lying then you’d get kicked or muted.
I don’t discriminate. Humans, bots, whatever.
18/f/cali
Even in those times these things you discuss were going on in the internet. There’s always been idiots on the internet even in the early days like Curtis Yarvin.
Infinite scroll is suited for current events putting negative pressures against content creation. Content creation became an economy. Commoditization of content sucked the life out of it all.
From cats to the collapse of society.
I think the cats are proud
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As a webdev I feel like the whole internet is dying. Everything is an app now, fully controlled by google, so privacy goes out the window, and none of it is searchable anyway as genAI made search engines toast. And everyone and their cat just seem go around blocking entire /8’s willy-nilly breaking the whole global network concept… Does anyone have any tips which career path to switch to?
…a gif? No no no no, a masterpiece like that needs the full-length visual and audio experience!
No arguments here :D
And before that it was developed together with the military. It seems we’ve gone full circle.
