▲ 58 ▼ What the Internet Was Like in 1998 (cybercultural.com) submitted 1 year ago by klu9@piefed.social to c/retronet@lemmy.sdf.org 22 comments fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children) I think 1998 was just better all around permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] PhilipTheBucket 11 points 1 year ago (2 children) I wrote up a whole little historical essay about how in Woodstock '99, when some assholes decided to run a music festival that was an exploitative cash-grab that ultimately was sloppily put together, disappointing, and endangered the safety of the participants, all the kids recognized what the game was, and tore the venue apart with their bare hands and burned it all to the ground. They threw batteries at the MTV "VJ"s, they smashed up the cash machines and vendor tents and took back their money, and then they lit a match. So yeah it was a different time. Right around that time was the end of the vigor generation and their replacement by the tech job generation (which then birthed the Doordasher no health insurance generation because they weren't vigorous or well-organized enough to fight back real effectively.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) https://www.netflix.com/title/81280924 Worth a watch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PhilipTheBucket 5 points 1 year ago This was exactly what I watched that educated me about it, it is fascinating. The whole documentary is a masterclass in telling the story by just laying out what happened, not really editorializing but just letting the bad guys hang themselves by explaining their take on it and then juxtaposed against some other events and information. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PhilipTheBucket 11 points 1 year ago (2 children) I wrote up a whole little historical essay about how in Woodstock '99, when some assholes decided to run a music festival that was an exploitative cash-grab that ultimately was sloppily put together, disappointing, and endangered the safety of the participants, all the kids recognized what the game was, and tore the venue apart with their bare hands and burned it all to the ground. They threw batteries at the MTV "VJ"s, they smashed up the cash machines and vendor tents and took back their money, and then they lit a match. So yeah it was a different time. Right around that time was the end of the vigor generation and their replacement by the tech job generation (which then birthed the Doordasher no health insurance generation because they weren't vigorous or well-organized enough to fight back real effectively.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) https://www.netflix.com/title/81280924 Worth a watch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PhilipTheBucket 5 points 1 year ago This was exactly what I watched that educated me about it, it is fascinating. The whole documentary is a masterclass in telling the story by just laying out what happened, not really editorializing but just letting the bad guys hang themselves by explaining their take on it and then juxtaposed against some other events and information. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) https://www.netflix.com/title/81280924 Worth a watch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PhilipTheBucket 5 points 1 year ago This was exactly what I watched that educated me about it, it is fascinating. The whole documentary is a masterclass in telling the story by just laying out what happened, not really editorializing but just letting the bad guys hang themselves by explaining their take on it and then juxtaposed against some other events and information. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PhilipTheBucket 5 points 1 year ago This was exactly what I watched that educated me about it, it is fascinating. The whole documentary is a masterclass in telling the story by just laying out what happened, not really editorializing but just letting the bad guys hang themselves by explaining their take on it and then juxtaposed against some other events and information. permalink fedilink source parent