The garage stories also gain support from people. It fooled us into believing these were just kids that developed something major, we spread the word and now it's a monstrosity.
When it first started, the internet was fun. Programming was done on notepad. People experimented and played. Info was shared freely.
Now it's boring. Plug in bloated WordPress to get a cookie cutter site to push crap no one wants or to collect your info for car warranty scams.
And the modern venture capital industry was born (ie. put in blood sweat and tears in your garage, with mom and dad’s savings, and then sell us your ingenuity, R&D, and intellectual property for pennies on the dollar, if you’re lucky).
I miss the old Internet. Some parts I went to had some wildly creative people who were free to post whatever they wanted - a funny comment from someone could result in a meme or a song or a little animation created by someone else. Just fun little things that made you laugh or entertained you in some way.
Once the wokescolds took over (somewhere around 2012), it started to get boring as you've said. Content creators stopped putting out new things because you had no idea if it would be "acceptable" or not. And content that was considered "not acceptable" could get you cancelled in real life, so why stick your neck out?
I knew early on that there would be censorship of the political talk because Control Freaks couldn't handle people exchanging ideas freely. I just never thought that they'd come for the creative part as well.
I've actually taken a liking to JetBrains Rider for .net... the .net platform is decent, and with some of the new .net Core stuff, I like it for web/REST backends, but could not stand needing to use Visual Studio.
It's generally been a much more enjoyable experience, much less buggy, much faster. I use the Vim plug-in. Rider also has a Windows Forms designer for when that comes up.
Didn't know it existed until a colleague mentioned it, and was impressed.
There was a nice little app called HotDog that we also used for web programming. Small, simple, functional and free.
I liked notepad though. Forced you to actually learn and understand the code. Like you say, pay attention to what you type.
The garage stories also gain support from people. It fooled us into believing these were just kids that developed something major, we spread the word and now it's a monstrosity. When it first started, the internet was fun. Programming was done on notepad. People experimented and played. Info was shared freely. Now it's boring. Plug in bloated WordPress to get a cookie cutter site to push crap no one wants or to collect your info for car warranty scams.
And the modern venture capital industry was born (ie. put in blood sweat and tears in your garage, with mom and dad’s savings, and then sell us your ingenuity, R&D, and intellectual property for pennies on the dollar, if you’re lucky).
Many good inventions and programs have been bought out and put to pasture in order to prevent any real competition in the markets.
I miss the old Internet. Some parts I went to had some wildly creative people who were free to post whatever they wanted - a funny comment from someone could result in a meme or a song or a little animation created by someone else. Just fun little things that made you laugh or entertained you in some way.
Once the wokescolds took over (somewhere around 2012), it started to get boring as you've said. Content creators stopped putting out new things because you had no idea if it would be "acceptable" or not. And content that was considered "not acceptable" could get you cancelled in real life, so why stick your neck out?
I knew early on that there would be censorship of the political talk because Control Freaks couldn't handle people exchanging ideas freely. I just never thought that they'd come for the creative part as well.
I miss 'Ask Jeeves'. Ah, for the days of innocence and romance when we had blight spirits and no knowledge of the darkness...
Webcrawler, anyone? Back before Google...
i still use webcrawler
Forgot about Webcrawler!
There were also several search engines to use, and you didn't have to pay for ads to have people find your website.
AskJeeves was a fun one!
You used to be able to scrape the internet overnight with a basic DSL connection and setup your own search engine with ease and no legal red tape.
I've actually taken a liking to JetBrains Rider for .net... the .net platform is decent, and with some of the new .net Core stuff, I like it for web/REST backends, but could not stand needing to use Visual Studio.
It's generally been a much more enjoyable experience, much less buggy, much faster. I use the Vim plug-in. Rider also has a Windows Forms designer for when that comes up.
Didn't know it existed until a colleague mentioned it, and was impressed.
I don't know what you just said, but it makes me not want to learn to code.
Don't worry, fren. AI will eventually do all of the coding for us. 🙄
Agreed. It was "the thing" to learn for a great job, but it's been ruined.
There was a nice little app called HotDog that we also used for web programming. Small, simple, functional and free. I liked notepad though. Forced you to actually learn and understand the code. Like you say, pay attention to what you type.
Aha. So that's the desired outcome of programming such as Halt & Catch Fire.
Lookie, it's just another rag tag band of normalized nerds! Just like you & me! /s