If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide this reply thread is one bucket of people being sad about our lost communities, and another bucket of people being righteous about lost audiences and capitalism, and i don't think the people in the buckets realize they're talking about different things
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@evacide There was a shooting more or less in my vicinity today. My first reaction was to long for the days when a simple text search on Twitter would have been enough to figure what was going on.
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@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I miss the days when it was a bit more niche, and nerds had a sort of power over non-nerds.
I miss being able to outrank huge companies just because I was running shit on a private VPS and had SSL before everyone else.
I miss the internet that was a source of obscure facts, rather than non-facts sold as facts.
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@darwinwoodka @evacide Oh, not really, just the internet xD; for that, I’d rather a meteorite hit the Earth hahahahaha
@darwinwoodka @evacide Not so much, man. In that case I prefer meteorites, not viruses, although some anti-vaxxer deserves it
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I built my own website in 1997 and still have it.
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@evacide And if you’re in your 50’s, that process started on local dial-up bulletin board systems before shifting to the internet…
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide and me just ambling about the web... homelessly.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide shameless-self-advertisement: We exist as a forum for 26 years, and we're definitely aiming for a few more anniversaries :).
But yes, we've seen other forums come and go, and it's a shame to see a community vanish :(.
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@evacide is that old enough to have had a geocities page?
I still kind of feel like the idea that we would all have "homepages" linked together by common interests and spontaneous social networking was one of our better ones. Fediverse is pretty cool too though... -
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
50s and 60s, over and over.
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@TerpEE93@hachyderm.io @evacide@hachyderm.io
I was a MUSH enjoyer myself back when the difference ment anything. 
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide
I just realized the internet is a sand castle. -
50s and 60s, over and over.
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide Why the age restriction? Some of us started with Usenet and/or bulletin boards ... and some decades earlier with amateur radio.
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@evacide A global DDoS attack – and let the internet go to hell xD– just kidding, but it’s tempting
@scriptkiddielucifer @evacide for a moment I thought you were describing what the billionaires did
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I've never thought of it this way but it's definitely true. Long dead niche forums, MMOs, etc.
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@evacide i miss the time when my home was irc and usenet
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If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
@evacide I've been through a few, especially on chat clients, but the Twitter diaspora was a big one for me. I'm glad Mastodon is seemingly immune to platform killing stupidity like that.
I miss that