Technology

37738 readers

52 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social

261

so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by noodlejetski@kbin.social to c/technology

235 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] orsetto 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always like to hear about when internet was at its early stages. I'm born in 2001 so never got the chance to live through that era, but to me it always feels so much better than what it is right now.

Hearing you say that we are experiencing a moment similar to those is making me so happy.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was absolutely amazing!
complete wild west. only limit was your mind/imagination.

at least it felt like that, when I was young ;⁠-⁠)

[–] UltimoGato 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other limit was the speed of your dial up modem.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I got a Flatrate ISDN connection when I was 13. I was living the dream ;⁠-⁠)

[–] Lowbird 2 points 1 year ago

People do remember it with rose colored glasses - there were fewer niche communities, fewer lgtbq+ communities, slower connections, 240p video at best (so much anime I somehow watched like that... Sorry anime), sexism and racism in a more general way vs now as like society and particularly techie culture at the time in general, not being able to use the internet when someone needed to use the phone, and so on - but while we gained a lot with time that we take for granted now, we did lose stuff, too.

I hope we can bring back something of the good that was lost, now and in the future, as well as find new good things.

At least, surely, there will always be cat pics.