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I’d been texting for a couple of years when this came out, and had just logged my first full year working as a web developer. The next 5 years or so felt amazing, hardware and software was improving so quickly on all fronts.
Yeah, it was good times back then. Now the technlology has vastly exceeded our wildest dreams, yet it is under the control of greedy mega corporations, resulting in the most expensive shitty experience we have experienced so far.
There’s exceptions, though; that’s why we’re here :)
I totally read what you’re saying. My work requires me to maintain a personal cell phone (Intune business profile) and, with any OEM implementation of a smartphone OS you’re essentially paying to donate everything about you to a megacorp to sell it to another megacorp to siphon more of you’re life away from you. The beauty of modern advancements, though, is that if you don’t care to be within 20% of the “bleeding edge” of attention extraction and intention fabrication you can spend your time in communities like this and with tech like graphene and linux making few sacrifices, if any.
I don’t know about you, but the lemmy atmosphere feels a lot like that of early forums to me. Not quite the same, but the community aspect is more present.
I think my stance is that technology doesn’t suck, as is the case with most things; it’s the unchecked and rampant abuse of a given thing.
Oh I agree 100%. The technology doesnt suck, It is fantastic beyond my wildest dreams as a young lad. What we are capable of doing now is amazing.
My complaints are with “subscriptions” and “accounts” to that technology. When I die, my accounts and subscriptions are non transferable. Meaning my $XX,000.00 dollar audible account with over 1000 audiobooks i bought and paid for dies with me. I now pay a yearly/monthly fee to use things like excell(which hasnt changed much) that i used to be able to buy and use indefinitely for 50 dollars.
The technology is amazing. The greedy corporate overlords are the problem.
“Travel Without Moving”. Appropriate way to describe VR, even if it’s Dune quote.
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Went down a rabbit hole bc of this (thank you) and found out JK is a twinkess twin and so is Elvis
Not sure what that means but I saw him live a few years back and I was shocked how extremely British he is, both in accent and great sense of humour. Also the whole band is now a bunch of old dudes. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising but it was very different from the picture I had in my head since my childhood.
Except the music. The music was just as good as ever. It was awesome.
Original post made me search for jamiraquoi, which led to me listening to their music, then finding a yt about their music video which led me to the jk wiki page, which had the term twinkess twin, so then I started on that etc. Internet Rabbit hole.
Im glad he’s still robustly british.
It’s “twinless” with an L.
Did he actually have canned meat in his heels when you saw him?
I miss the old internet. Usenet was magic.
Ah, convergence. In retrospect, it seems obvious that the Web would just get extended to do all that stuff. The part that was harder to predict was corporations taking over all the platforms. I guess I just waited to believe that everything would stay democratized.
Check out the gemini protocol and the small web.
ASCII pr0n anyone? [nsfw]
Magic
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Be right back…
This song would probably be number one if a popular artist did a cover of it. It hits A LOT harder now
I don’t know that I’ve ever actually registered any of the lyrics within this song, save for “vurchahwuhh insayynatyy!”
TIL “gaff” is UK slang for your house or home.
And a fuck up.
Gaffer is a boss.
I don’t know why people say that English is hard it all makes perfect sense.
That’s gaffe though.
In french too.
And “make gaffe” (fait gaffe!) means watch out! when you are potentially doing a “gaffe”.
JK was inspired to write the song after he spent all night exploring a web ring - all of which were GeoCities sites with an “under construction” animated gif.
Don’t forget Radiohead releasing Planet Telex in 1995, then OK Computer in 1997.
Reminds me of Serial Experiments Lain, an anime released in 1998 that talks about the power of social networks and how companies will compete to gain control of the internet. Some of the predictions are outstandingly good.
People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
Every generation has said stop X it’ll rot your brains.
Like you said, it was books at first, children told to go outside, then book readers centuries later told their children to stop watching TV and read a book. Now video games are the latest
Tiktok and ChatGPT
True, showing my age
The other day I heard a Joe Walsh song playing from a coworker’s phone on break, and I was ready to excitedly nerd out over classic rock with someone.
But my coworker went, “Who? It’s a TikTok,” and my enthusiasm deflated like a balloon.
I guess we’re both showing our age. Sigh
And they had a point. While the printing press (not books, those are way older) was a tool that could be used for good, many quickly realized that it gave propagandists a whole new set of tools to manipulate people with. Newspapers had a ridiculous amount of opinion-making power for quite a while there, they just got replaced by radio, TV, and then social media and now LLMs.
People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds.
Because it does.
Ask a 20yo to do simple math without using a calculator.
The more “helping” technology we rely on, the stupider we become.When common core math was introduced across the US, I wanted to know what all the hubbub was about, so I looked into it. Funny that, despite so many parents decrying it, a few instruction pages ended up giving me (as an adult) the number sense that hadn’t fully developed from my time in school. I use constructs from it all the time now and mental math has never been easier.
Calculators are great tools, but being able to do quick math in your head before everyone else can finish punching the numbers in makes people wonder if you have super powers.
joke’s on you. I’ve always been stupid
Ask a 20yo from the 70s to use Excel. Nobody could do that back then. How stupid.
It’s an equally wrong argument.
People’s skills adapt to what they need frequently. If they need something, they will learn how to do it and they will know how to do it. If they don’t need it, they will lose it. Why would you want to keep maintaining a skill you don’t need? It doesn’t make you a better person.
Ask a 20yo from the 70s to use Excel.
You went backwards, i went forwards, slight difference there.
People are losing basic cognitive skills.People are losing/not learning skills they don’t need. That’s it. They learn other skills instead, that they do need.
Everyone has basic photography and photo editing skills. Something most people really didn’t have in the 70s. Most people know how to use a smartphone or a PC, again not something that the average person could do in the 70s.
Then again, in the 1890s most people knew how to handle a horse and hardly anyone knew how to control a car back then.
Even back in the late 1990s a large portion of the adults were afraid to touch a computer, because they thought it was some arcane magic, and now that’s not an issue any more.
In the 80s and 90s, calligraphy was a quite common skill. Nowadays it’s not necessary any more because if I want text to look nice, I print it.
There’s no such thing as a “basic cognitive skill” that everyone needs to have in every circumstance throughout world history. Because stuff changes and skills that were super important 30 years ago just aren’t nowadays.
Case in point, to return to your original argument: It was a common thing for pupils in the early 2000s to ask their teachers why they need to be able to do long division if they can just use a calculator instead, and the common answer was “You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time”. Well, we do now.
I’m walking into spiderwebs, so leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
yeah i spent so much time reading random shit on it. to be fair i already did that with physical encyclopedias so it was natural. but the fact that Encarta allowed what’s now known as wiki surfing was next level for me.
I remember the that summer. Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat
You’ll have to be way more specific than that.
