Like fuck all the proprietary junk and versioning, and just have a bare bones HTML ASCII extranet designed to be simple and without any bugs to patch? Obviously a naive question.

But seriously, the 56k dialup world with Napster GeoCities and AOL Instant Messenger was better. Add capacitive touch screens, current data throughput infra, and lithium batteries to 1999 and we are peak Matrix internet territory. Yahoo and net navigator were better than chrome stalkerware and google digislaver fascism.

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[–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It is kinda ironic having this debate on a platform that isn’t static html

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    This is one of those times when the attempt to address the wrong part of a statement immediately goes into Ackermann-like recursion.

    The only irony present is the pretense of validity of the supposed contradiction.

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