▲ 11 ▼ What doyaaaa miss from the old the internet. When it was real. (piefed.social) submitted 1 year ago by Cherry@piefed.social to c/askuk@feddit.uk 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments I’ll start. Chuck Norris jokes!
[+] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 year ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago Everything somehow feels like it’s for sale and nothing elsw. YES! I miss the personal websites that people actually paid their hobby money for to host them. And which they cared for: hand-crafted HTML, barely any JavaScript, no cookies, etc. Nowadays, a lot of websites are huge monsters full of useless information and fillers but with a lot of ads. Similar to how so many people post 10+ minute YouTube videos about how to switch a light bulb - but then put 10 ad breaks into it. Everything has to create an income. Awful! permalink fedilink source parent [–] lerba@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* This was named enshittification, and it's truly everywhere now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago Everything somehow feels like it’s for sale and nothing elsw. YES! I miss the personal websites that people actually paid their hobby money for to host them. And which they cared for: hand-crafted HTML, barely any JavaScript, no cookies, etc. Nowadays, a lot of websites are huge monsters full of useless information and fillers but with a lot of ads. Similar to how so many people post 10+ minute YouTube videos about how to switch a light bulb - but then put 10 ad breaks into it. Everything has to create an income. Awful! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lerba@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* This was named enshittification, and it's truly everywhere now. permalink fedilink source parent