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Oh geez
How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.
https://12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
When they put up a 10 foot wall, use a 12 foot ladder
Because it’s run by companies and not people like before. Because the original internet community grew and they prefer being in family and outside.
I miss the days of NewGrounds, Miniclip, and Kongregate.
I miss Flash games on browsers. Limewire. YouTube before influencers.
I think that’s when the Internet started going to shit. When people started using it for shameless self-promotion. I miss MySpace, and GeoCities.
I miss the SomethingAwful forums from 2004
Ah, fuck I miss the goons, too. I still log in every couple of years or so. It’s sort of like walking down a street you used to live on. It’s all still familiar, but nothing is really the same.
I have a CD somewhere that I burned a few miniclip games onto. Also the combo number 5, which did NOT age well. (And was kinda unacceptable when it was new)
The internet is tons of fun
Removed by mod
Spreed 42.zip, renamed in boobs.zip, in Facebook and you’ll see how funny the internet can be.
Don’t pretty much all modern .zip managers know to not open zip bombs anymore?
No, clicking on a zipfile make work a zip manager. But most AV identify the zip file as badware if it scan it. How many user scan downloaded files with an AV up to date, before open or use it? Or an atached file in the mail? Well, 42.zip is pretty known and you can download it from GitHub, but there are still zip bombs made and in use, even to eliminate AV protections, because it put the AV in a infinite loop in the intent to scan it, if it is a ZOD which isn’t in the definition base of the AV, blocking and overloading the system, because of this they are still dangerous.
