A good old dose of nostalgia to remind us of the good times is just what consumers have been craving in the midst of a period of economic uncertainty. Just think about that in today’s media landscape and nostalgia has been everywhere over the last 12 months. After all, experiences of the past are what help form identities in the present. It's better for the internet and society at large if everybody isn't clustered around the same places all the time.The Nokia 3310, Britney Spears’ pink fluffy hair ties, Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ cassette playing through your Sony Walkman all of us can look back on a moment in time with fond memories that were defined by a new piece of tech, a fashion craze or a tune that defined a decade. ![]() The next generation of social media sites and video hosting platforms will be smaller and more numerous-at least initially-than the ones that rose up in the early-mid 2000's. Nowadays, people are terminally online to the extent that they build up their entire identities over social media profiles and delude themselves into believing they have a bunch of friends (hint: online friends are mostly nonexistent, if you think you have them, you probably don't.) As a final side note, (and I know this is an odd segway) one thing I am really enjoying about the more modern internet, in particular the last ~5 years, is the paradigm shift away from massively centralized social media. I suppose the advent of modern social media made this change inevitable, but one thing I did like about early 2000's internet was the more laid back atmosphere of it all-that isn't to say people didn't fight and hate each other, but it generally was a very low stakes situation, because everyone's IRL info and identities weren't so deeply inextricably linked with all of their online activities. Aside from it being larger and faster, there's more resources and different avenues for finding what you need, provided you're willing to look beyond the first 5 search results of stuff that's algoritmically pushed to the top. Although being smarter will also help.Įarly 2000's internet for me means phpBB boards, Newgrounds, eBaumsworld, Rinkworks, gimmicky Flash games with jump scares, early video hosting sites, and shock sites where maybe the most interesting thing was trying to decide which images were real and which were fake. Imagine my surprise then when I returned to Doomworld and found it a much kinder, gentler place in 2021. I was sort of around the alternate history forum world for a few years but due to shame over having not actually gone anywhere in life after high school, I left after a few years. If I spent my free time with anything, it was video games and I guess forum culture may have just bored me. ![]() There was this little thing called RL after all, and I wasn't so babied that I wanted to just hide from the world. Give it another few years and they'll all be a bunch of Vox Day clones.īut like bio, I wasn't really on the Internet too much. Now these people have infiltrated the mainstream of the right and now stand against the decadence and decline of (Western) society. I can remember, I can rememburrr, when 4chan was that sort of trashy place that seemingly gave birth to image memes that back then, was just known as the place where socially-maladjusted people used to congregate and made people with generally low self-esteem already even worst.
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