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What do you miss from the old internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No SPAM. No ads. Only people with an IQ of above 100.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

IQ is a bad measure of intelligence or decency of a human being. Academic advantage doesn't automatically make you smart, or nice to be around for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Agreed. And I only meant this symbolically. "The net was better off when nearly all people there had a minimum of education and discipline." - Better?

Back then, if someone produced stupid ideas like they pop up today by the millions a day in X and Facebook, you got properly booed, and people learned to avoid this one source of trouble.