Internet Nostalgia

I've missed the point of this. What was it you was talking about to him.
I just made 1 out of context post.
 
That's life, give people access to something which gets popular then people out there will spoil it for everyone else.

For example, back in 2001 I was on chatrooms (17 years old, had 56k dial from the mid 90's) and meet a girl from Lincoln. It was 6 months before we actually met. This was way before dating sites, what I saw on her photo is what I got. Nice, slim blonde girl, had good fun together :) With internet dating so popular now, you will struggle to find that now. Instead you get a bunch of fatties trying to look slim with photos from different angles or single chavvy mothers with multiple kids by multiple dads thinking they will find "tall,dark and handsome" on POF, Tinder, etc.
 
Its kinda taken away how impressive a lot of things are too.

Like a 4 year old playing concert standard Beethoven (or whatever) is almost commonplace on youtube!
 
malachi said:
That's life, give people access to something which gets popular then people out there will spoil it for everyone else.

For example, back in 2001 I was on chatrooms (17 years old, had 56k dial from the mid 90's) and meet a girl from Lincoln. It was 6 months before we actually met. This was way before dating sites, what I saw on her photo is what I got. Nice, slim blonde girl, had good fun together :) With internet dating so popular now, you will struggle to find that now. Instead you get a bunch of fatties trying to look slim with photos from different angles or single chavvy mothers with multiple kids by multiple dads thinking they will find "tall,dark and handsome" on POF, Tinder, etc.
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totally agree and kind of my point about not liking social media, it has given people the ability to give out a false impression of who they are causing 100 likes, 2000 followers ect creating huge egos and expectations that are totally unrealistic but this is probably best left for the relationships thread lol
 
Personally I love the modern internet and all its foibles.

I can do a huge amount of things without having to actually talk to people. I dont have to leave the house as much. Gaming is brilliant, can play with "friends" around the world. I dont have to run a cable downstairs to dial up. I dont have to remember anything as I can search for it. I can lookup things quickly on my phone when the wife goes "exactly how tall is liam neeson".

Though they should bring back geocities.
 
On the relationship front I don't think we can complain really, most women will always seek the best mate within their boundaries and the internet just broadened that boundary massively, I mean there's men who are just as bad on those apps with photos showing their best angle with good lighting, with a puppy to pull at the he must be a good guy strings or lying about career or whatever in their profile.
 
pepp77 said:
I have to, how can there be any questions about the pronunciation of troll it is just roll with a t on the front.
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Thats how I pronounce it but some people also say Trawl. A troll just goes around trawling for argumentative or easily offended people, so I could see how that pronunciation works.
 
Webrings I remember them, the awful AOL client, ugh.

chroniclard said:
Its not just words though. How about posting images of someone on facebook and the entire school seeing it. Quite possibly worse for a young kid than just getting duffed up a bit.
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So its the parents who have created cyberbullying indirectly. Parents give kids phones, dont control their access, thus resulting in this kind of action. Some of my 7 year old's friends have facebook accounts and phones already ! His school has already issued letters about pupils not allowed to have social media accounts. Parents again. I control and monitor both what my two boys do with their laptops and tablet. My 7 year old is aware of facebook etc through the online awareness lessons they had at school last year and included are the warnings of all the online threats etc. He told me he had no interest in Facebook etc. Would rather play FIFA 17 ;) We also had a letter from school saying this year they are to get their own email account and I put on the form that I didnt want him to have one. No account, cant sign up for anything.
 
My son is 9 and I created him a gmail account when he was born(same with daughter). I use it for his steam library and signing up for other things(minecraft login), he has no access to it yet.

No way would give him a phone, 7 year olds with phones is a bit silly.
 
I agree with those that think the evolution of the internet has made things easier, more accessible and 24/7. That includes bad things like pedophilia, bullying and terrorism but it also includes good things. It's easier to raise money for good causes, watch inspirational lectures or learn a new language because of the internet. My mates used to have rooms full of VHS tapes that now can just be streamed on demand in high quality whenever you want.

So everything is magnified and I think brought up properly, as exemplified by some parents' statements in this thread, we'll all be just fine. I miss some of the old IRC channels and geocities home made sites but I wouldn't go back to it if it meant losing what is available today and I look forward to the internet of tomorrow.
 
Back in the day,bantz was appreciated, it was understood and taken as such. Today it' results in an RTM and/or toys being thrown out of the pram
 
In my opinion parts of social media has ruined the Internet. Fortunately I'm old enough (I'm 30) to have used the Internet before it became dominated by social media, so I can see how it has evolved over time. I think the dial-up era was definitely an interesting period for me. I liked that the Internet wasn't always accessible or always on, and the time allocated to using it felt sacred. Communities felt friendlier and people were usually quite polite. I made some awesome friends as well. But these days I rarely want to be social online at all. Social media aside, the Internet seems to have put 'online' types of people who would not have been able to access it before and has made the Internet a far less friendly place from what I used to know. Others will embrace this as a good thing because of the freedom and ability to connect to all types of people, but I'm starting to fall into the view that the Internet needs policing to a degree, when before I would have been against it. I don't agree for example people should get away with death threats and profanity the way it does, which for some reason this seems to be largely tolerant now. I can't imagine being a young kid and using the Internet as it is now, that it is a truly worrying thought.
 
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