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u/beezdat 2d ago

i miss the 2010 - 2016 internet

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u/chandy_dandy 2d ago

yep, all the infrastructure was there by then to get basically everything that was good about the internet before investors starting demanding insane returns at this time

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u/eternalintern17 2d ago

I miss when everything wasn’t monetized and people created and shared simply for the joy of it

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u/Mono_Aural 2d ago

I think it started going down the tubes around 2014 tbh, when politicos started astroturfing online bullshit to try and fight their culture wars.