I actually kinda miss the days of internet screamers (what we called jumpscares back then). Back when people just made stuff on the internet for shits and giggles. Granted the ghost car video is part of an ad series, but most screamers were just homemade videos or flash.
It was a time with a lot of "you're the 10th million visitor to this website, you're a winner" and "this is how to get a bigger dick" popups, and no adblockers.
People always pine for the "good old days" without realising they're just remembering (or imagining) things with a huge bias.
So you actually built yourself personal adblockers in 1994..?
"The internet was better in 1994, and I'm definitely not affected by nostalgia."
Oh cmon. That's peak nostalgia with no care to the realities.
The average person wouldn't last 3 minutes using a 14kbit modem trying to load some text based site which has a few hundred users.
What you're trying to do is basically the "I was there 3000 years ago" meme.
But I too, was there when it waa written.
And it definitely wasn't better.
Also you're on the fediverse complaining about this. The very idea already disproves your "walled garden" argument.
Not to mention the tor boards and telegram groups etc, which are definitely used at least as much as the internet was in 1994. Being on forums back then was probably more niche than having some combat footage and drug selling telegram groups. Groups where people aren't censored or limited while also having the tech and connection speed to instantly share high definition video from all around the world. Wirelessly.
If you managed to actually film something miraculous in 1994, or irrefutable evidence of some criminal activity by the police for example, where would you share it? You'd have to either make physical copies and hope the pirating network can get it out somewhere, as tv stations won't be showing your thing. It's not practical trying to actually share the video online in any shape or form. So you'd end up writing about it, hoping someone would believe your fantastical claims.
Which wouldn't happen.
No, the internet was not better 30 years ago. Guess you can feel like it's worse today if you use it like a b451c 81tch
If you want to emulate the 90's Internet experience, just get a 15" CRT and use it to IRC about Star Trek.
But... wait... that's essentially what were doing, right now. Fediverse really feels like the IRC of the 2020's, in a way.
Niche communities, mostly characterised by people who are well versed in tech and love Star Trek. You can make and manage your own part of the community, or even create a server yourself. Except on Fediverse, instances can communicate with each other and we can actually share media, unlike in 1994. Also we all have a constant connection on a device in our pockets.
Dasus slaps NoSpiritAnimal around a bit with a large trout.
"It'd be a weird sort of person who doesn't willfully ignore reality"
Really?
You can remember good things about the past, but it you willfully ignore the most of what the past was, you'll get something unrealistic. Like his notion that the internet was better in 1994.
By 1994, the World Wide Web had only existed for five years, HTML was published in 91 and the browser source code for the first web browser for public use in 1993.
You can like things about the past without saying things like "the Internet was better 30 years ago", because obviously it wasn't.
Some people like the Model T Ford and be history buffs and whatnot, and that's perfectly fine. But who of them would say that a Model T is objectively better than a modern car — even a Tesla with all it's problems? They can like the experience more than driving a regular car, but I'm sure they would never imagine actually traveling with one. It's just a novelty. Nostalgia.
Your argument isn't coherent, as you're attributing a single phenomena to being caused by a willful ignorance and the rose coloured glasses of forgetfulness or absent minded ignorance.
Which is why you're shifting goal posts to a position you believe is implied but is actually your own contradictory construction, and of your own making.
Anyways I don't think I'll get anywhere with you, as you're liable to such falsifications and implicit strawmanning.
Have fun arguing with positions you're making up for yourself. Strange hobby, but whatever. It probably keeps you occupied, so who am I to judge.
Have fun arguing with positions you're making up for yourself.
Oh the irony.
I haven't laughed at that sort of philosophy larping this hard in ages. "Cringe", I believe is how the youth refers to the feeling that accompanied my laugh.
What do you find so very incoherent about "the internet was not better in 1994"?
You implied that the person I'm talking to isn't ignoring reality they know exists, like the average speed of an Internet connection being 14kbit/s in 1994. Of course the internet was worse in 1994, and the "wild west" applied to ads and malware as well.
It's funny how big words you try using though, after not being able to even spell "gonorrhea" and not having the wits to check how it's spelled when you write it and doing with "gonerea", and, have, such weird, punctuation that makes, reading your, text very, weird. :D which makes the logical fallacy larping all the more hilarious via it's pretentiousness.
Your argument is essentially "people don't remember bad things". Mine is "people would prefer to ignore bad memories", which is why he is "wearing rose coloured glasses" as I'm sure he still understands what the internet actually was like in 1994, and willfully ignores the negatives.
I stopped using the computer for months because I was scarred of the monitor. Happened to me when I was a kid.
Ever since I check the like/dislike ratio on YouTube videos and avoid clicking on every links before making sure it's not a bait & switch.
The 2000's Internet era was wild.
Read the top comment before watching the video, so I was fully prepared for what was about to happen...didn't help and now my cat who was sleeping on me is this annoyed at me:
I'm so traumatized by that video that now, 17 or so years later, I had to carefully scroll your comment in case the picture you posted was the screaming face
After a few seconds of this scenic view of a car driving down the road, a person in a mask or something abruptly appears and screams incredibly loud. I can’t remember if it’s the video or your friends that tell you to look very closely to see if you notice the “thing” to ensure you are properly jump scared.
The car goes out of view for a but and then fails to appear when you'd expect it to which draws your attention just before the face appears. It's subtle and devious.
In middle school I helped run the media stuff at my summer camp, audio and projector. We thought it would be really funny to show this one night after the talent show. We really cranked up the volume too.
I don’t think we officially got in trouble, but there were a lot of people that got pretty upset with us.
The artist's website abuses the "click a link" clacking sound on a webpage. The entire comic is loaded and scrolls between panels. However for the jumpscare(s), it shudders and audibly clacks as it "rapidly clicks hyperlinks" to jump between frames. It's really neat effect and startling as shit. This page just hosts the comic. To confirm, in this link, you can not click between frames and just scroll with tye mouse ob the scrollbar down the right side.
God I fucking hated them with all of my guts as a child, caused me so much anxiety and fear. And then as an adult I've had the pleasure of people on the internet (mainly reddit) telling me they were just innocent pranks that nobody actually harbored any hate for or faced any negative consequences from.
