Welcome, Impulse! This new old internet is quite cosy. Hope you love it here.
Hello everyone! Name's Impulse!
I have not come from the old internet, but I do love old-school stuff! This led me to find Geminispace, which at first I was skeptical about until I realized how much better it was than the regular World Wide Web, at least in terms of being more user-focused, easier to work with, and the absence of companies finding ways to monetize everything. I kinda wish I had seen the old internet because of it, sounds like it would have been a lot more fun!
I plan on eventually hosting a blog on Gemini, but in the meantime, I'll sit and chat here in this calm-seeming pub. See you around!
hey Impulse. Welcome.
I grew up during the old internet era. Fun times.
Life was simple.
People didn't curate their lives and fight on the internet.
Sometimes, I wish we could go back to the pre-Internet days.
People didn't curate their lives, maybe, but I relished an old-school Usenet flamewar.
Oh my God, yes!
Actually, I was never part of such. I remember vigorous, respectful exchanges of utter disagreement. But of course the flaming of which you type was never more than a thread away.
Of all things, I wound up in a Jehovah's Witnesses newsgroup because I fancied a woman at work involved in that, and I was searching for insights. It helped that I'd done some fundamentalist Christianity of my own earlier in life, and thus was easily fluent in chapter and verse.
There's no doubt the internet has developed into something powerful, it gives us access to thousands of helpful services and sites for work and entertainment, but it's a double-edged sword. Privacy has kinda become a thing of the past, cross-site tracking and CPU-hungry scripts are everywhere. I like the new Gemini protocol, it's just like the old internet, and it's been made specifically to stay that way. User-focused blogs and services reign here and I think that's honestly really cool. It's how I found the pub.