“Thank you for this podcast topic! I’m a year older than Chris and remember “the good old days” of the Internet in the ‘90s. It felt more welcoming, there were unspoken rules of behaving civilly in forums, advertising wasn’t so in your face, I could talk to people about my interests that no one in my friends circle were into. It was enjoyable. The people with good intentions have been pushed aside by trolls, selfish attention seekers and those who are into crazy and sometimes illegal things who are insistent on showing you their ideas whether you want to or not. I just want to reminisce about an old cartoon series, I don’t want to hear about the Deep State or how some Nazi’s were neat. Ugh... cookies and data mining and algorithms and super long TOS contracts you have no choice to agree to if you want to use a service. As an artist, I don’t like sharing my artwork as much anymore because tracing and art theft are prevalent and even accepted as the price you pay for posting online. The Internet now feels so different than it did 20 years ago and I don’t like it and have little interest in it save for podcasts, streaming and chat. I could rant for hours but this podcast has expressed so much of what I feel and I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who feels this way about the Internet.
- M. E. Bartley”
Gen Manx via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/29/18