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 i remember that. it was just as ridiculous-sounding then as it is now.
@stefan LOL. Flop of the millennium!
By 2000 it was pretty clear to anyone with any tech inclinations to realize that it wasn't just a fad.
Possibly dodgy newspapers with no one on staff to explain how it worked might have felt that way.
@stefan My feelings are a complicated mixture of remembering a better time when the young internet expanded my worldview in every dimension and made me the person I am today, and the recognition that those days are long gone and never coming back and we'd be far better off right now without the past decade and a half (ish) of shinternet that replaced them.
Lots of snark and negativity (understandably!), but I am for one thankful for the internet/the web, and all of you being here with me.
We can still turn things around, together!
@stefan The question is how.
We won't do it while everybody else is still trapped in shit places.
We won't do it either bringing so many people over, with all their bad habits, that this (or whatever other good place we may come up with along the way) becomes yet another shit place.
It's a bit of a catch-22.
@stefan Maybe we should have done exactly that...?
@stefan It might have been better if they had.
@stefan @purplepadma I see that the Daily Fail’s reliability was just as good as today back at the turn of the millennium
@stefan pfff, I dismissed it in a fad in 1997 already
@stefan I’m imagining 2 million Britons still happily disconnected
@stefan Would be better if Daily Mail would have been a fad and gone. Vile publication.
@stefan I still have nightmares of modems endlessly trying to set up a link on a noisy line...
