• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think zoomers are generally great, but they really underestimated how much of a Wild West the Internet was back in the day, when everybody has their own Angelfire or Geocities website with bad HTML and clipart gifs and people blogged on their LiveJournal and wrote bad fan fictions on forums and all that.

    You just kinda learned to be tech savvy for things like “Don’t open random links” and “don’t believe everything you read on the Internet” through trial by fire or having to explain why you broke the computer, and it’s not exactly a skill that you forget. So it’s kinda weird for them to assume that they are better at tech just because they are younger.

    I do like this place, gives me nostalgia of the Wild West of these early days. Needs more bad fanfictions here though.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Before itunes really caught on and ages before something like spotify would rise up, millenials cut their teeth on kazaa, limewire and a host of other p2p services trying to get digital copies of our music and movies. Is this really just a low quality pirate rip or is a virus laden exe? ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

      • funktion@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Pamela Anderson nude or horrifying decapitation? Time to roll the dice!