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i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

The lack of massive copyright strikes, barely any intrusive ads, little to no subscription services, and the simplicity of everything. Now, you can't use music without angering a company, gotta pay for reading damn articles, and now you gotta sign up for an account in everything.

[–] darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Fal@yiffit.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

user customisability. online profiles were awesome until like 2013 where it all became plain black or white backgrounds with a banner. you could have custom backgrounds or even entirely custom CSS in a lot of websites. I really love the theme my instance uses because a lot of Lemmy instance themes are plain and dull too, just default black or white with no creativity, unlike db0 with the crazy outer space and fire and shit. makes it feel more human.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's one of k my biggest criticisms of Lemmy. No ability for communities to customise themselves. Reddit's redesign is awful, but at least allows a little customisation, and classic Reddit with its custom CSS was awesome. It hurts rpggreentext greatly not to be able to use CSS to show…the eponymous greentext.

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Having to turn it on to use it. Now it’s inescapable.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Geocities. A platform where anyone, regardless of technical skill or any design sense could go wild about their passion.

[–] FaizalR@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

From online community to a meetup.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I am going really old internet here but the sense of adventure. I had something called the Internet Yellow Pages because search engines didn’t really exist yet. And going to these sites using ftp, Archie, gopher, etc., you never knew what you were going to find.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Lack of privacy invasion and surveillance

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

1900HOTDOG from two of the Cracked diaspora, TVs Seanbaby from the internet and Beef Digests runner up for Salami Slab of 2014, Robert Brockway!

And the associated podcast, The Dogg Zzone 9000.

[–] tiggidyty@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The ease of piracy. Literally type whatever you want into any search engine.

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I'll go with the algorithms. Google was greater than god, twitter and reddit were endless scrolling. YouTube is being pretty great still, except when shorts wakes up and chooses violence for the day.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 7 months ago

I would be on various forums for different hobbies of mine. They were relatively small and you'd recognize other uses frequently, and there was drama between each other. It was fun lol.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

The send of novelty and usefulness that came with the use of the internet. Especially with things like messengers. Irc. Forums and online multiplayer games.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Legend of the Red Dragon

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Blank html Pages only containing pages of blue links to various SWF(flash) movies. Purple if I watched them.

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