[ SECRET POST #6182 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6182 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/JSA1sG8.png

What do you miss about it, OP?

[(Anonymous)]

I was around in those days, the internet was a much smaller place and that was kind of nice in some ways.

[(Anonymous)]

I miss the anarchic nature of it, how since social media wasn’t a thing yet, most of the places where fans could hang out and talk about their fandom, were messageboards and chat rooms generally owned and operated by other fans doing it in their spare time usually for free. There weren’t algorithms set up in these things to cater to all our worst impulses and allow our data to be sold to massive corporations.

90s Internet was akin to the commons of old, where there wasn’t really anyone in charge, and everyone could set up a little space for themselves and run it however they wanted, so long as it didn’t interfere with someone else’s space or outright break the law. Now, the Internet has been effectively bought up and is the property of various corporations who can control it however they like with little recourse for ordinary people.

Remember Net Neutrality? There’s a reason the Internet became almost unusable as a research tool, once it was stripped away. The vast majority of Americans polled were overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, but luckily, the government didn’t let that stop them from stripping it away.

And there’s a certain charm to be found in the amateurish formatting and graphics of personal fan sites.

[(Anonymous)]

I love browsing Neocities for just this reason, and once I have a decent enough income I'm going to pay for my server space with them. I love browsing the websites people have designed--some of them are eye-bleedingly bad, but I love it because to me that's what the internet is all about.

It was also a lot easier to navigate in a "wow this is interesting information, but it's from a rando's website on geocities.com and not a .edu or .org or .gov, so...kinda sus." Misinformation still got around but it felt like it was easier to find real sources for things, or at least easier to find reliable websites.

[(Anonymous)]

I do too.