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 Wonder where James Chapman is now, curious what his thoughts are looking back
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He's a PR executive now, after bouncing around politics most of the 2010s.
@stefan that reminds me, I gotta renew my newspaper subscriptions. better write a check
@stefan A right-wing rag getting it massively wrong? This is my shocked face 😐
As it said, it was linked to the cost of it and its limitations.
I remember having to do my work in a shop or at the library and yes it was limited... and costly too.
I wonder what it will become in 30 years
@stefan I remember well my laughing at this time (after using the internet for years). But exactly 5 years before, I worked for a not so small German newspaper where our publisher said, the mechanical writing machines of the 1950s were quite good enough for another 10 yrs. When I took my electrical machine from home, my colleagues nearly killed me. At home, I produced zines on the computer. It was a time of disruption for late-comers.
In fairness: The thing that I thought about the Internet that year, that it would usher in a golden age of shared knowledge and respectful communication, is similarly laughable in retrospect. I wasn't alone in this belief either.
I'd've much rather lived in the universe where integrated circuits didn't work.
@stefan it would be better if millions currently on it had given up on it
@stefan We had a chance to kill it when it was an infant. But we didn’t.
It's not called the Daily Fail for nothin' 😂
@stefan Remember that time when the US built all those data centers for AI and then realized that LLMs didn’t work after all?
@stefan thats an ai image ,i can tell its not the real daily mail because it didn't mention dianne or house prices being affected
@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.
