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What is something that 2020s kids will never get to experience? (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 92 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The internet in it's heyday, when it was a genuinely thrilling place to find information, and quite a lot of weirdness, and before it was swamped by corporate interests.

I remember starting out with gopher and a paper print out of 'The big dummies guide to the internet' which was a directory of almost every gopher and ftp site (pre web) along with a description of what you'd find there. Then the web came along and things got really good for a while. Once big corporations got involved it all went down hill.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago

Gopher is still going

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 months ago

I would limit it to the "web" in it's heyday. The internet as a whole is more wild than ever. And there's a chance that the fediverse could be just as thrilling in 10 years as the web was 20 years ago (and could be swamped by corporate interests).

I don't think the internet is getting less thrilling and weird, if anything it's downright scary at this point, it's just really easy to enter a walled garden, never leave, and never find the interesting stuff.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you like gopher, you're gonna love Gemini: https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I've been keeping half an eye on it for a while, I should probably give it a go again.