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Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The Metaverse could've been a platform free of AI, offering a protected version of the Internet for people to be themselves. It's kinda where we may be headed anyway. Instead we got this...

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Facebook was always destined to be shit.

What we need is Tom to come back and just boot up the only MySpace servers and we can do a hard reset to the part 20 years or so.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuck MySpace. Let's go back to webrings.

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Dialup BBS

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Don't go that far. Do you know how long it takes to download porn at 2400 baud?

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Guess you’re stuck reading erotic stories.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Probably where I got my penchant for them.

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

You ever see an old one and just think, I look at this in 1993…

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago

I think I had a fondness for Freewheeling Barbara Toys With Boys. But I can't really say my tastes haven't changed.

Back before it died, I liked asstr.org. There were a lot of old classics there.

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Webrings still exist.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

The metaverse predates Facebook's interest in it.

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[–] zo0@programming.dev 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Lol, lmao even
Sorry but that is a very misinformed idea of what Metaverse was, and was supposed to be

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[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

?

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[+] zo0@programming.dev 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

?

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[–] ennof@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, you can chill in VRChat if you want.

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[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

You mean Second Life?

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Niw there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. Is it still actually going?

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[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

No idea. I don't think I've logged in in over 10 years, if not more.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or Resonite even.

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