Is the "golden age" of the internet behind us?

[ShagTimes]

Am I just imagining it or does the internet seem a different place to what it was just a few years back...and not for the better?

I'm not just talking about the way social media has become biased and politicised.

Is it just me or do virtually all the results of your favourite search terms bring up results from around 2010-2014, with very little that is brand new?

 

[oggbashan]

Possibly. When I search for rude pictures instead of getting them I get a request to link to a paid-for site.

 

[JohnnySavage]

AOL was the beginning of the end.

 

[Funit]

Don't get me started about Deviantart. Shadow of its former self.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Am I just imagining it or does the internet seem a different place to what it was just a few years back...and not for the better?

I'm not just talking about the way social media has become biased and politicised.

Is it just me or do virtually all the results of your favourite search terms bring up results from around 2010-2014, with very little that is brand new?

98% of my tv viewing comes over THE INTERNET (in a dark, foreboding voice). A few years ago it was Johnny Carson reruns on the rabbit ears.

Is that an improvement?

 

[InternationalFunboy]

This is an interesting topic, OP. The thought jumped to my mind that this would be like saying the golden age of language is over, but being subjective I guess one could argue that is true. I personally do not believe it is though. Viva la internet!

For me, the corporatization of what once was free and creative conduit is severely choking the life out of it now. Many years ago there was the suggestion that business and commerce should have their own internet separate from what we all knew, and know today, as the internet. That way all the corporate fucks could go cannibalize each other to death and leave the rest of us to our spangled blogs showing the world how to make a ninja hood from a tee shirt. "Monetization" is probably the dirtiest word ever uttered in the face of free and positive expression.

 

[Liar]

The Algorithm™ did in the internet.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

 

[Wrong Element]

Am I just imagining it or does the internet seem a different place to what it was just a few years back...and not for the better?

I'm not just talking about the way social media has become biased and politicised.

Is it just me or do virtually all the results of your favourite search terms bring up results from around 2010-2014, with very little that is brand new?

1. The Internet changes continually.

2. People have been lamenting the good old days online since the Web (mostly) supplanted the old newsgroups.