I am starting to think these origin stories are comms to signal who is a cabal insider. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Hewlett-Packard all started in garages? Michael Dell started out selling computers out of his trunk?
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.
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 am starting to think these origin stories are comms to signal who is a cabal insider. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Hewlett-Packard all started in garages? Michael Dell started out selling computers out of his trunk?
Here’s an Inc. article (archived) highlighting garage startups: https://archive.ph/oqeKJ
Edit: Not to mention they always come from affluent and connected families.
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.
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...