In the 90s, I remember going to rotten.com and seeing dead bodies. Kids these days don’t know about the wild west world web.
Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:
The goatse.cx image has been used by website authors to discourage other sites from hot-linking to them. By replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing image when hot-linking has been discovered, an unsubtle message is sent to the offending website’s operators, visible to all who view the web page in question. In 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the “sexiest geeks of 2007”; the site subsequently swapped the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.
Man, I miss the early Internet.
What? The Rodeny King beating and subsequent riots, OJ Simpson murdering 2 people, Columbine, the first time the WTC was bombed, 1500 people died near Mecca, and like 3 civil wars in Africa
Not to mention all the shit that wasn’t being captured on any kind of recording at the time.
The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?
There’s only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.
I can’t even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.
More videos. And yet somehow
less agreement on what happened.
“obviously fake ai sludge”
perhaps some “that’s what Comrade Pelosi wants you to believe”
yeah and for a lot of people who’d be using lemmy, the reason they weren’t aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it
I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.
I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean … AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone’s hand?
Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren’t paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.
It is intensely difficult to join those ⅔. It takes more than adding fascists’ names to your Lemmy filter tell ya that much.
“Oooommmmmm … Ooooommmmm”
<deep breath>
<2 minutes guttural screaming>
“eh, I’ll try again next time”
I’m supposed to be walking even more now. I have no ability left to forget difference between what should be and what this garbage today is. Play some old favorite shows in my earbuds? Idfk.
There were multiple genocides going on too buddy
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy did they have to teach us that “never again” and “lest we forget” are but rhetorical kindnesses and also poisonous lies??!
Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.
Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s… Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!
The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself… not so much!
Maybe OP was simply a child then? Children arent usually exposed to / aware of the total shitstorm that is politics.
I felt this
There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.
It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.
Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.
What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?
