The thing about AIM, was “OMG this person is available to chat instantly, right here, right now!” A lot of people didn’t have text messaging, or they did but it was expensive, so being able to chat remotely meant calling them on the phone, or you and the other person happened to be online at the same time.
I miss flash games like pogo.com and stuff
Remember:
Products from Amazon will cost MUCH MUCH LESS because there’s no “big box” overhead.
And shipping will be FREE!
Also it was made to be fun and chill. You logged on talked to a few people end of transaction. You weren’t mined for data. They weren’t pushing ads and content based on your history. Myspace and aim just did a thing and you did that thing. Now the thing does you.
lol any straight man who relies on online dating is planning to die alone lol.
Didnt tinder and other dating apps relase daa that actually proves that the ratio of men to women is lioe 5 to 1 on average for all of them? And we dont jnow how many straight men to straight women are in that ratio. COuld be 10 to 1 or 7 to 1 …
Like 15 years ago when online dating first became mainstream and began to overtake other forms of meeting people I noticed that the dates that I was getting went absolutely horribly. Most of the ones I met in the real world went great, to the point that I swore of online dating and eventually met my partner that way. I find it so bizarre that people think that every single thing must be done through an app, including socializing. Sharing memes and typing emojis back and forth is not socializing.
/end of old man rant
Sharing memes and typing emojis back and forth is not socializing.
I would actually say youre correct about this . I forgot where I read this but a researcher basically said this as an argument in one of his articles . They said that online conversation does a terrible job of emulating real life conversations because in online discussion you cant read facial expressions, expressions and social cues, you dont get interupted(and sometimes you being able to read how , when and how frequently a person interrupts you can tell you A LOOOOT about what that person is thinking about you or what they think of you. Like if someone interrupts you EVERY time you two or you in a group woth them talks maybe they dont respect you as much as you think. If someone interrupts you with sexual innuendo maybe theyre trying to tell you something ‘a little more’) or interupt others for dramatic effect (there are some jokes out there that dont make any sense unless you interrupt the person listening to it), or if a person deliberately changes their voice for a reason that you dont know of (maybe theyre afraid of their real voice? Maybe theres something more to it…), and other things too that I cant get into since I have little experience with IRL conversating. Alnd also obviously you dont get the physical aspect of conversation when you dont do IRL conversatioms. Sometimes you just need a hug and a shoulder to cry on and them too. Humans clearly can suffer from touxh starvation.
I think they said that surprisingly it is actually negotiation-based conversation or persuasions that has taken the biggest hit for those who choose to give up IRL conversating. I cant remember exactly why though
Obviously online chatting and sharing memes has its times and its places. But I think in the modern world most people rely on these things too commonly when theyre looking to converse with or make friends.
One can appreciate that Tinder somewhat allows women to have control over who they date
Of course, the inverse is stalkers and dick pics daily.
Idk. Humanity just can’t win.
Why cant we just create women friendly public spaces that allow women and men and people of whatever gender to safely pick, accept , or deny to date someone? If someone acts up we call authorities or we ‘take care of them’ ourselves.
Its very hard to send a dick pick in public right? Also I feel itll be very hard to be a stalker if the community that you and the person that you arer toxicly obsessing over both frequent have proof that youve stalked them (or even others) in the past and it is widely known there thst you frequently stalk them, right?
If I was not banned from Facebook I would add this to groups and then argue with people about ☠️
back when using your real name on social media was idiotic
Everything you did on the Internet didn’t exist just to sell you something; you weren’t a commodity to be manipulated and packaged with everything you looked at.
Bullshit. The technology WAS better.
Text communication took like, 28 Mb of RAM and was blazing fast, and a single chat application like Pidgin could interoperate with ALL of them.
How accessable was the old internet for visually impaired people?
Mixed and depending on the year. Hardware was available, (braile and speech syth) but it was expensive as hell. There was a bit of a crisis when we went from dos to windows. None of the early GUI supported any of the hardware. In 95 you could use JAWS screen reader. Navigator 4 and IE5 were shit for a while until they started supporting it. Graphic images were still a problem, even after ALT tags became available, trying to get content makers to use them was a fight.
To say nothing of Flash. Sighted navigation was nontrivial.
That’s not it at all. The internet used to be a multitude of small sites. A true bazaar made by individuals, visited by individuals in their web browsers.
Now it is all the 5 biggest platforms trapping users in their apps and doing their best to wall everything off.
Bring on NomadNet!!!
or Gemini Protocol,
They’re both great retro, but sadly they’re largely missing interesting content ;(
See, when you open the front (web) page for the Gemini protocol, it looks like an actual human wrote that. When you do the same for NomadNet, it looks like (and with your computer fans sounds like) an investor cash grab. That’s probably why I don’t recall about the latter despite researching adjacent tech a lot before.
https://unsigned.io/rnode_bootstrap_console/s_nn.html
nomadnet is a application that’s a subnet of reticulum
reticulum provides the mesh and ssl transport, nomadnet is a hosting platform built on it. no cash involved.
i think the easiest path to trying out nomad is liam cottle’s (meshtastic guy) meshchat https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat he added support for nomad net
Cool.
Actually, I have heard of it, here to be precise. I guess the front page threw me off so bad that my brain filtered it out like it never happened.
Also the Internet wasn’t crapped up with every moron imaginable that could pick up a phone. There was a minimum barrier to entry; you needed a computer and to have at least average intelligence to figure out how to use it.
We’re still living in the Eternal September. It used to be that there was a certain etiquette to being online. Don’t ask a question someone else already asked, don’t pretend to be an authority on something you’re not, and so on. Then September 1993 happened. Suddenly there was a much bigger new cohort of internet users who needed to assimilate to the culture. It was an endless cohort of people who didn’t know how to behave. October came around more new user, November, December were the same. The change didn’t happen quickly. It took decades but it started then.
This is the right answer. Also the internet hadn’t been overtaken by big companies and bots. And law makers was just starting to understand what it was, so it wasn’t censored left and right. It really was a magical time.
lol I’ve been perpetually online from the beginningish.
some things about AIM are better. on discord, you express yourself with a monthly fee and now the member list is full of distracting animations. on AIM (and myspace), you had to learn some HTML to format the song lyrics in your bio just right.
You pay a monthly fee? Mine’s free. You do Nitro or something?
AIM also had built in file sharing.
Wow I completely forgot about this and now I’m awash in a sea of nostalgia. We used to just send each other mp3s over AIM and it was so chill. “Hey check out this song I’m listening to” “OK cool thanks” like it was no big deal. Ahhh
It was even better than sending a file, though. You could just point the settings to the folder you wanted to share and anyone on your buddies list could browse the shared folder and download what they wanted if you were online.
AOL hired the Winamp guys and they immediately pioneered the Gnutella firesharing system. It was available for less than a day before AOL corporate went “Oh shit” and tried clawing it back. Too late.
Well, then the Internet wasn’t a capitalist shithole. It was only a shithole.
People used to have social lives and meet and make friends and go out before apps or broadband. In the dialup days the internet was an addition to an already completed life. Facebook and iPhone was where things started to go to shit. Suddenly everyone was permanently online instead of just the cool people. And their brains all went to mush and they forgot how to relate to other people and have a life.
