Posted by Jesus Forain (other posts) on January 30, 2022 at 13:32:39 Previous Next
In Reply to: Happy birthday MLHH (25 years) posted by Jesus Forain on January 22, 2022 at 15:25:07:
It makes me wants to pull out my old 56K modem and Windows 98!
I went for the first time on Internet in September 1999. Despite it was slow with the dial-up modem, I found it was better than now. There were a lot of personal websites, most of them on Geocities that doesn't exist anymore. Each of them had their own graphics design, most with plenty of animated GIF and flashy images. People used to browse on Internet.
Now, everybody stays jailed by social networks and don't browse on Internet. On these social networks no page personalization are permitted: except the topic, all others graphics are all the same for everybody.
And now the worst thing is that there are services like Snapchat or WhatsApp only available with a smartphone app, so you can't access them with a computer, and it's not for technical reasons. In the future you'll have an internet for smartphones and another one for computers, it's a problem for net neutrality because access to a service relies on the device type.
The MLHH is a survival from the early web! I saw the same issue on others websites and forums, they are deserted since everyone is on FB. But I prefer a website to FB because it's more friendly, it's a community focused on one theme, and it doesn't have all these ads and trackers for spying you. Moreover, it's not controlled by an AI or other stupid bot which sometimes delete your post for no reason; there are real humans to speaking in case of problem.