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Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Anticorp@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.

In the 00's every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.

That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.

At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.

We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.

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[–] allocsb@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 children)

Optimization is the natural path of all things commercial. When the Internet was young it was more experimental as a whole and that was fun for people. Computing is still experimental but the experimentation isn't obvious as it was back then. Unfortunately that means adventure finding you across your computer screen doesn't happen as often. You either need to look for it around the fringes or look beyond the monitor.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For a lot of people, there's nothing more fun and creative than an unsolved problem.

Monetization/commercialization/organization of the Internet was a super complex problem for a lot of business trying to make it big, and it made for a beautiful shitshow.

But now that the business problem is approaching solution, it's losing that fun and creativity.

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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The 00s were also filled with corporations monopolizing entire portions of the industry with almost no resistance, even going so far as to have protections for their empires legislated. We're aware of what happens and we get mad about it, before we were ignorant to everything except for what we were told by those mega corporations.

IBM's proprietary software runs all financial transactions in the USA. Apple and Microsoft are the only commercial operating systems. nVidia can sue the pants off of anybody who even thinks about rendering things in a similar manner to their GPU firmware capabilities.

[–] monsters@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's more like it's being revealed (or more obvious) what the purpose of the Internet was really for. Remember that it was created by DARPA for military purposes. It was never for altruism.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This is why I'm currently trying to figure out how to setup an intranet via something like openvpn. Basically a walled garden that keeps the corpos out. My version of it will also be locked to a max of 1.5mbit/s to help with bandwidth costs.

[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've looked at private 5g for this a couple times using something like Openstack Magma. Get me and few friends and family and I've have decent coverage I think.

[–] rckclmbr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit never expected to see this comment on lemmy. I worked on magma in the early days of it

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