I would say as far back as 2013, this is when I started notice bad changes on the internet, starting with Google+ being forced on users of YouTube, then copyright started getting worse with automated Content ID claims. Compared to the AI-pocalpyse of today it's nothing but this is when it started ...

Once the world began becoming corporatized instead of appealing to the customers. Internet became more of a business once everyone found that there can be tons of money made from it. Probably I would have to say somewhere by 2013 or 14, since then I just remember the constant decline of the internet ...

it’s kind of amazing how, of all new tech fads, AI is the one that nigh-universally causes ordinary, not-terminally-online people to groan. you just mention the words “AI” and their day is ruined. really speaks to how unwanted this tech is for the common folk

doesn’t help that i don’t even know ...

i'm gonna say something that i don't see pointed out in these discussions
even the golden age of the internet paved for the gradual worsening of it
netflix selling dvds in the 90s allowed for it to become the streaming megacompany it became today
the battle over "piracy" led to entertainment ...

After 2020-2022 it just became completely ruined, though. At least 2014-19 you could find elements of the older internet and places where sensible discussion could be had with people.


I agree, I feel that in the late 2010s we mainly tolerated the state of social media then, but several things ...

I found this video shouting out the forum and immediately joined.

I delated all my social media off my phone that i knew would be addicting to me for a better internet experience. Ofc, that's not to say i stopped using social media as a whole as i use tumblr and youtube in order to interact with my fandom, but after i stopped using my phone i had more time in my ...

I was thinking of making a topic with the same title because I've also been wondering where y'all came from.

I still can't wrap my mind around so many people joining this forum when I thought it would have max 10 inactive people when I first launched it. Heck I don't know why I got so many visitors ...