+144 The internet has devolved from a platform for the exchange of information and ideas, to an exchange of opinions and insults. amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We like to lionize the past, and rich people get themselves lionized in history. But in reality, it's always been like this. Aristotle would write absurd theories about women being little boys who never grow up, and who have the wrong number of teeth (he believed, having apparently never checked). He'd attend this one guy who did comedy sketches about how different Athenian politicians poop or were pooping that week, and talk with his contemporaries about how foreign people are bad because they don't speak well. Humanity has always been internet humanity. We're just used to people covering it up with pomp and majesty.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I find it comforting that humanity has always been *motions at internet* like this. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing but it is what it is. Also thanks for the history fact

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I also find it comforting that humanity has always been *Motions vigurously at internet with wide eyes and duck face* like this.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Web was full of nerds, now it's full of duckfaces posing asshole closeups for $50 from your uncle jimbo who never even took kindly to colored tv. If you'd made the web less usable by killing of plattforms...it will revert to this stage.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No you're wrong, you don't know what you're talking about /s

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The greatest worst invention of mankind. Right next to the nuke.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

More like from an exchange of info and ideas, to an exchange of **currency.** The opinions and insults are part of the charm.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Porn and piracy. Anything else is after the general public could easily use it. Never been the same

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cat pics, all cat pics

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well, most places that were a platform for the exchange of information and ideas probably devolved as well 😋

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The troll in me really wants to respond with an opinion and an insult.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

U mean a tool to improve communication to the prime source of everyone's entertainment

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I agree with you, but I also think you're being edgy and lame

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Pretty sure the internet is for porn. Porn sites are just different now.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's a place for porn. Everything else is just riding on the coattails.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

We're just getting used to each other. Pure entertainment for sure. We used to burn Witches. Look how far we have come. I can't even put it down. Yay!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not really. It's always been like this! I found a archived google hangout of the day Kurt cobains death was announced and it was full of people making horrendous jokes like bad for todays standards. If anything I think society is improving as people are starting to be held accountable

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well, given what the History Channel evolved into, can we really be surprised the internet has followed a similar path?

by Anonymous 2 years ago