Huge miss, he was actually fluttered
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The internet wasn't a mistake. It's one of the best ideas ever.
As with most other parts of life, the mistake was letting corporations take over everything with little to nothing restraining their obsessive hoarding and compulsive attempts to control every aspect of human existence.
Oh boy. I remember back at the end of the 90ies, being annoyed at friends making websites on popular things only to insert pay per click banners, in the hope of making money out of the internet.
Corporations have a lot of responsibilities in making thr internet shitty, but people's greed helps them a lot.
Still today, I have coworkers dreaming of finding some genius idea to become popular Youtubers and live from that. They don't realize it means living from ads and encouraging this system.
Everyone wants to exploit the internet for money. Even when it was new.
The internet was not a mistake! The modern internet was...
Twitter and Facebook were the mistakes.
It was ads. All the social media algorithms do what they do to maximize ad engagement because that’s their primary source of income.
Capitalism commodifies everything. The enshittification of the internet was inevitable under a capitalist system.
Ads were there from the beginning of the... broad public internet.
I remember having to load them up over a 56k modem, and then shortly thereafter learning how to block javascript... in the mid/late 90s.
But yes, roughly by about 2010 - 12, the entire internet had just become... SEO, AdServing engines, everything is an ad platform on the surface, but actually highly, highly specific and refined ways of data profiling people for all kinds of purposes, selling that data to anyone.
I don't know exactly where you could or should draw the line on ... at what point it tipped from reasonable to horrific.
I feel like the original Google AdWords, where they were only text based ads in their own boxes separate from the page content and clearly labeled as ads, weren't too egregious.
But there were already obnoxious ads around by then.
Coming down from the trees was a mistake.
Eh, I like dogs and fire.
Hopefully not combining them, though..
Dog help catch antelope.
Fire make eat antelope more good.
Fire-antelope more good than no fire-antelope.
Me like fire-antelope, dog like fire-antelope.
Me, dog, fire, all together, good!
Still a better love story than Twilight!
The horror of parasocial distance collapse
Killing me softly... With his song, telling my whole life, with his words
I don't know any entomologists, so I have to assume this is correct. On the other hand, I know for a fact that the internet was a mistake.
It's not so much the internet that was the mistake as life itself