the iphone was the beginning of the end. i remember getting an ipod touch around that time and simply having fun on it, downloading silly little games and apps, in pure awe that i could light a little fake lighter or pretend to chug a beer on the school bus. now you need a smartphone to participate in society
Me too! And it was monetized so reasonably. Many a millionaire were minted on that early app store. Amazing games for $1 - $5.
Play us off, keyboard cat
RIP keyboard cat, you were loved.
I saw more tits by the time I was 14 than all my ancestors put together ever saw. I'd call that a win.
I also accidentally saw more gay octogenarian orgies than my ancestors, probably. I call that a loss.
So we are even, for now.
I don't know how many lemon parties you've seen, but I promise you that at some point of the roughly three hundred thousand years of human history some of your ancestors were gangbanging in the Village Elder Fuck Tent
We are in the blurst of times
"You stupid monkey!"
cursed and blessed
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Oh yeah, all that hardcore gore was so kind and cuddly. Or the rampant, very out in the open child pornography.
I mean talk about delusional. The Internet was always a cess pool, it's just that most of you fucks were either infants, or didn't know how to use it.
People see the old internet with really rose tinted glasses.
I just came home from seeing The Kiffness live. The internet isn't all bad.
like the big bang theory you know, now everyone just drifts away into their own little galaxies. like i did a similar web search on lemmy.world and found a lot of overlapse between lemmy and other reddit alternatives. so that's a niche. lgbt is another niche i'm sure. you get all these niches and the internet is more separated than before.
I use cat videos to distract myself.
