>give normalfags access to the web.
>a place where they can say and host anything
>they choose walled garden social media instead
>they ruin the entire web in less than 10 years

>give normalfags access to all the free audio, video, vidya, books, and contnet they could ever desire
>FOR FREE AND UNCENSORED
>in better quality than any streaming sence or cable provider
>they pay $10 a month to multiple low quality streaming services instead
>where content is constantly censored, removed, or edited to suit the opinions of people that don’t even watch it
>they ruin the entire entertainment sector in less than a decade as content providers produce more and more low effort shit that caters to people that don’t even play/watch/listen to it

>give normalfags access to hardware so powerful a nerd in the late 90s would have murdered someone for it
>its so small they can cary it with them everywhere
>you can always get an intemet connection
>normalfags use the device to take pictures of themselves to share with other normalfags
>this eventually morphs into short videos where they do retarded dances and point at slogans seen on screen
>in the concept of OC in less than a decade
>everyone producing high quality work is drowned out or gives up all together

>give normalfags access to the world’s collective knowledge and archives detailing everything you can imagine
>instead of reading it, learning from it, debating it with others, and improving upon it they do web searches to find opinion pieces that align with their existing opinion and beliefs
>they demand everything they personally dislike be censored instead of closing their eyes or the webpage they’re viewing
>they incite campaigns to deplatform anything they don’ like when they don’t get their way

>took them less than 10 years to ruin free speech on the intemet

Why do they ruin everything? Why did we allow this to happen?

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    Bet this kid wasn’t even alive in the 90s, the Internet was kinda dog shit before the web and the early web, while cool, is probably something that wouldn’t hold up very well if you went back and relived the experience today. There were cool things like BBSes, IRC, MUDs, and whatnot but they pale in comparison to what we have now.

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      I was there and I disagree with everything you just said. Stuff is quicker now and design is prettier, but that’s about it.

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        The web literally didn’t even exist at the beginning of the 90s, but you go right ahead and disagree your heart out.

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          John B Good enough started the Internet on literally my birth year. You think you’re fooling anyone with shit we can get an immediate correction from with a web search? Also nobody said ‘beginning’, by which you mean to count the only year of the decade without Internet as if that’s what matters in the conversation.

          Get fucked troll.