• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There were absolutely not more websites based on sharing in the early 2000s lol

    You are literally on one of the very many websites dedicated to it, today, while bemoaning it’s absence

    Some of the sharing sites from the 2000s monetized themselves and that upsets you. I have no issue with that. There are many alternatives because what he said is false. Go use one of them.

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      1 year ago

      Bro that’s anecdotally false, there were so many ham, electronics and random research sites I perused on angelfire and geocities.

      Quality varied greatly, but lots of thought went into making posts, diagrams were sometimes done in ASCII art which was its own headache.

      Point is, I don’t agree with your take, and I don’t think my similarly aged friends would agree either. Internet of late 90s/y2k wasn’t an ad-free utopia, but the point was more about conversing and sharing info.

      Lemmy is an attempt to return to that original intent, modernized as it must be.