Many of us who experienced the first versions of the internet back in the mid to late 90s, remember a different experience, a different world, and just like the old internet, there are those few who can not only recognize that difference but, can articulate the differences. Here is a series of forum postings that explain what has changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334552 and another from "The Intelligencer" http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/i-dont-know-how-to-waste-time-on-the-internet-anymore.html What I found most telling was the following paragraph: " And then, one day, I think in 2013, Twitter and Facebook were not really very fun anymore. And worse, the fun things they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated; blogs were shut down. Twitter, one agent of their death, became completely worthless: a water-drop-torture feed of performative outrage, self-promotion, and discussion of Twitter itself. Facebook had bec...
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