Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
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@stefan Soon with KI Shit.
@stefan Any day now!
@stefan oh wow. That's a bold article for Y2K ~~ maybe a few years earlier, sure, in the dial-up era prob a fair take.
@stefan This part sure aged like a fine wine though
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Just because I'm still here doesn't mean I didn't give up on it.
@stefan I bet my flatmate read this, and that's why we're not allowed to connect the internet.
Oh, what a tangled wwweb we weave, when first we practice to selfie.
@stefan Sure some people have given up on it, but we're gonna need a lot more people to give up on it before things improve.
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See, they had clickbait headlines even on analog paper! 😉
@stefan I wonder how often James Chapman, Science Correspondent, gets his face rubbed into THAT one.
@stefan Now I'm almost wishing they had. Who could have predicted the way corporations would enshittify it so badly that you're afraid even to visit actual major sites because they're tracking private stuff about you to sell. At least back then you knew not to visit the bad sites and you'd be generally fine. Now I trust the bad sites more than the "good" ones...
@stefan Those millions are the only ones living in peace today.
@stefan i remember that. it was just as ridiculous-sounding then as it is now.
