I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

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Haha, so true. I really really miss the "old" interwebz. Imagine the content of back-then with the hardware of today. The dream of yesteryear would come true. A blazingly fast net. Just html with a bit of JS (when really needed). Not 10 frameworks (each used for one function), dozens of mb of graphics, a gazillion of cookies and tracker-scripts and... Jeez.
Today i need so much stuff to fight the other stuff, it's stuffmageddon.
Oh and if you're also European you can also fight (for free!) the silly cookie-war.
- 4chan back before the Nazi takeover was like the wild west. My favorite part was "Lithursday," when we would share images with embedded PDFs of copyrighted content, including rare books, anarchist materials, and military manuals. I often wonder if those unusually large .jpgs are still floating around the internet waiting to be unlocked. I also saw legitimate acts of activism and terrorism unfolding live, without the interpretation and propaganda of the state.
  
  Oh man, I remember that. I'm sure I still have an Anarchist 's Cookbook floating around from one of those
  
  Oh yes... The rise (and fall) of 4chan. At least the site is still relatively lean, so that's that 🤷🏻‍♂️
- Not 10 frameworks (each used for one function), dozens of mb of graphics,
  Have you seen the old internet?! It would have been even more gifs, music players, and oh the flash websites! Haha I know that's really not your point but this jumped out at me and made me chuckle.
  
  Under construction 😩
  
  Ok touché 😩
  
  Point taken. The gifs were rising strongly, and music on websites was worse than a rusty nail in my dingdong. But still. One plugin today would've just got ridden of those and it would still load faster 😁
  
  At least it came on a free CD.
  
  *shiny coaster
  
  Yes pls
- some of our clients are on what the telco calls 'extended' dsl. they're waaaay tf out at the 'end of the line' where speeds can be as shitty as 250-500kbps; there's even a couple still on dialup. so we definitely consider the weight of a page and how many connections are made for each when we do our own sites.
  
  I'd love that... The weight-considered-site that is. Not the 500k line 😁
- Today i need so much stuff to fight the other stuff, it's stuffmageddon.
  The most relatable statement of the year so far. It's so exhausting ;-;

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