• @neutron@thelemmy.club
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        Let’s not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:

        • Half-done html pages with under_construction.gif or cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.

        • Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal ‘Media’ volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?

        • It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. “Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600” was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.

        • You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.

        • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          That was more the 90s - the time of things like Geocities - than the 2000s.

          By the 2000s there had already been one Internet Boom & Bust and things on the Internet were way more comercialized than is earlier times of handmade sites, pre-CSS webpages and ActiveX components.

      • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Same
        Hello fellow… are we considered as gen-zedders or tail end millennials? Because I have friends born in 97 and they are definitely not Gen Z

        • @penguin@sh.itjust.works
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          Millennials, according to Wikipedia,

          The generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996

          After that is Gen Z and Gen Alpha starts somewhere around 2010.

          So 1997 would be an older Gen Z

          • @silverbax@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            That generational ‘designation’ has been changed so many times it’s not credible.

            Gen X was originally they ‘children of the baby boomers’. If someone was born in 1981, they were young Gen X for most of their life, now they are told they are ‘Millennials’

        • @whileloop@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          I grew up around cousins who were all older than me, so I think I was influenced more by 90s culture than most of my peers. I think you and I are the awkward in-between.

        • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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          11 year ago

          1997 is a funny birthyear 😀 on one hand you grow up in “traditionell way” and thus you understand older folks who don’t understand new slang but on the other hand you understand the digital natives who grow up with all that attention grabbing BS.

          • @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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            11 year ago

            Yeah, I feel like people born up until around the early 00s still got to experience what life without smartphones & social media was like

    • @skyspydude1@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      Imagine content creation that was done purely for the fun of creating content and sharing info, albeit with literally zero hope of receiving any money. Better in some ways, worse in others.

      • @bobman@unilem.org
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        11 year ago

        Pretty much.

        As soon as people realized you could make money generating content, it all became homogenized shit.

        Same thing with video games. I miss the days when people didn’t treat them like a job.

        Now every gamer thinks and plays like they can go pro, similar to elementary schoolkids on the basketball court thinking they’ll go pro.