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It really did.

1993: Respectable, academic in nature, genuinely helpful.

2023: Random garbage, musings about the prices of cryptocurrency, more garbage.



There was garbage on the internet in the 90's. Lots. I was there, and I occasionally made the pile bigger. But I think 2025 garbage is of a different nature (and magnitude). 90's garbage was low effort and low quality. Think Geocities and pointless Usenet arguments. 2025 garbage is malicious, exploitative, industrial brain rot. And it will only get worse.


We never recovered from Eternal September.


The internet, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age... before the dark times, before the aol.




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