<s>Two</s> Three more questions. Please answer both!
1. When were the "good old days" of the net?
- Pre-1995 (8%, 235 votes)
- 1996–2005 (64%, 1901 votes)
- 2006–2015 (25%, 747 votes)
- 2016–present (2%, 71 votes)
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Molly White
•Thomas 🔭✨
•Molly White
•I lied. Three questions.
How old were you during your "good old days" period?
J.P. Stewart
•Desert Dweller
•Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
•I've had "good old days" in all of those periods (I'm now 43), but I think I peaked somewhere 2012-2016.
Trump's election was traumatic, even though I was not in danger. I did "fine" in 2020 -- but 2021 and 2022 kicked me in the teeth, and while there are definitely ways I think I'm better than I ever was, I'm never quite as content.
Michael Clayberg
•Jonathan Hendry
•GeePawHill
•Ummmm, "41 or older"?
Feelin' a little unseen, here.
❓ucblockhead
•psu_13
•Pax_Siciliae
•I massively look forward to reading what you write and hearing your thoughts : )
also just trying to not be a total lurker here
Blaidd Drwg
•Hue StL
•StaringAtClouds
•I never had a "good old days" period
The best time of my life would be the last 20 odd years since I met my partner but that isn't old that's now
Mother Bones
•Hades Addict
•Hara Surya
•When I was about 20, my father was about as old as I am now, he told me that when I got to be his age I'd understand the lyric from Jack and Diane, "Hang onto sixteen as long as you can, changes come round real soon make us women and men" and it didn't mean to act like a teenager.
The older I get the more I realize my parents were right about a lot of things.
Zane Selvans
•JayT
•Dreaming of dad jazz.
•Rubén
•Henning Deters
•datatrash
•Badscrew
•The Grouchybeast
•Hypolite Petovan
•aoanla
•Craig Grannell
•ftg
•Orc
•2xfo
•I made a judgement call 😅
The Cat Herder
•Molly White
•The Cat Herder
•Bob Tregilus :tux:📷:copyleft:
•Phillip Upton
•Robb Munson
•Joe Beam
•jeremiah
•Fruity Mercury :catjam:
•I'll be 31 in exactly 7 days so I tapped the "wrong" age bracket just to see what it feels like 🙃
(I can remove and revote for accuracy purposes if you'd like, although I don't know if those 7 days truly matter in the grand statistical scheme of things)
Edit: wait no, apparently I can't? Am I misremembering that this used to be possible?
Lewis
•Justin (StayGrounded.online)
•Toad King
•Desert Dweller
•Matthew Martin ☑
•Simon Brooke
•Prof. Catherine Flick
•burne
•I assume you mean World Wide Web-days. My usenet career started in 1989, and I was 22 at the time. In a country where credit cards were more rare than white winged unicorns paying for CompuServe was a problem. Somehow I managed. It resulted in me getting involved in the bridge between FidoNet and the internet proper.
From there: Gopher, WWW etc..
aliengasmask
•Nihl L'Amas
•Eka A.
•Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦
•LanguageMan1
•Patrick Berry
•Bill's in the shop for repairs
•I guess there are a couple of different "good old days"
I answered for the "good days of the www," but "best memories of the Internet" would be a totally different answer for me. That one dates back to when our computer lab had a map of the entire Internet - every domain - printed out and taped to a door.
SHODAN :nonbinary:
•nobody
•Keith Ammann
•Rich
•Martin 🪷 Schmitz
•DDRitter 🏳️🌈🎗️🇵🇸
•the earlier the better. Progressive enshitification at work.
Just a tip: no need for adblocks or privacy keepers.
Same with Xitter.
Mathias af Jochnick
•Pau Cabrera
•Can’t really help here 🤷🏻
I like how everything is styled right now but I am not sure wether the internet has gotten a little worse than that “internet era” you are talking about.
Rich Rubin
•datatrash
•llewelly
•silverwizard
Molly White
•Billy O'Neal
•Dunwich Type Founders
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