2026-04-20 14:40 UTC
@waffles I mentioned missing the 'old internet' sometimes to someone recently and they said "me too! flash games, kazaa and limewire, AIM..." It was at that point that I realized that their "old internet" is my "middle internet" :) Though if anything, old and middle have a lot more in common than middle and modern do.
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@waffles@masto.yttrx.com 2026-04-20 14:51
@sen yep fully agree. I think the big difference was when peoples stopped *going* online and started just always being online. Having a desktop. Initiating a dialup connection. Being intentional with the act of going online. These things felt very different from today’s internet where everything is hyper connected, always on, and closed off (from an app perspective) 😞