• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    The internet felt like the beginings for a star trek utopia. All the worlds knowledge for all to access. Never really thought about it being sectioned off and limited for anything of quality and then being loaded with crap to sift through. Never thought that it could be filled with propoganda and be used to control whole sections of the populace.

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    It turned out that gatekeepers were the only ones keeping the hoard of idiots and rubes off the Internet. RIP quality free content.

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      I find quality free content everywhere. I mean, maybe not this post, but most things I see are free from quality.

  • Chris@feddit.uk
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    When I first started working I did some temp work. One of my bosses asked me to look after her niece’s Tamagotchi. I’d not had one so didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Anyway, I killed it within a day.

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      It was slower, the graphics were basic, and we could get knocked offline by someone picking up a telephone. But damn, it really felt like reaching out and touching the world for the first time. It took so long for my mom to understand that yes, I can be chatting with friends online at 2am. She would always ask, “Why aren’t they asleep?” and I’d have to remind her that other time zones exist.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    My daughter got a tamagotchi with like a colour LED screen that does way more than the ones we used to have, somehow they seem less fun to me, maybe cause they’re like $80 and I’m now the one buying them

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    My mom almost bought me a tamagachi in the 90s. I say almost because what she actually bought me was a cheap knock off.

    What I remember most about it was my friend showed me their tamagachi, and it’s born as an egg.

    Then I remember what mine was born as.

    Imagine seeing this pixel art gorilla, and then he sees a second pixel art gorilla wearing a skirt. Then you see the closeup of the male gorillas face, and he wiggles his eyebrows exitedly.

    The next thing you see is a pixel art of a sperm attacking an egg. In a knockoff tamagachi meant for children. I was 13, so I was old enough to know what I was seeing, but it definately had some real WTF vibes. Let’s put it this way. I’m 41. I remember nothing else about that tamagachi besides seeing pixel art gorilla sperm.

    That’s all. I just wanted more people to know about chinese knockoff tamagachi with gorilla sperm.

    • This isn’t the ones that was box shaped and had two terminals on the top to connect to others so you could fight them?

      All I knew is I threw my dinky dino in a tree in my front yard and he lived there for years.

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      This might be the very first time anyone has ever typed “pixel art gorilla sperm”. I mean unless you’ve told the story before.

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 hours ago

    We thought the internet would change the world. It did, but the world changed the internet, too.

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    Grunge is not a fad. And for the record Eddie better and mark langlain ,however you spell it… Are the last front men standing from the grunge era

  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    The internet in its original concept was great. Unfortunately it wasn’t shaped around profit, so it was quickly remodelled.

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      I remember watching a TV news report in the mid 90s, before Amazon, Netflix, Google even. AOL was a big thing and people with personal computers at home were mostly just messing around. There wasn’t a lot of e-commerce. The news anchor was lamenting that all these people playing on their computers were just a wasting their time “browsing,” as if no activity has value unless it can be monetized.

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      It’s important to note the internet is just fine. What was taken from us was the Web. This means we can build something new and cut corpos out of it and no I’m not talking web 3 that was just a grift