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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM
Yes, bow to me, the grand architect of geocities Dragon Ball Z pages.
We thank you for your service.
I hope he’s not speaking for me cuse I ain’t 40 and I’ll hold on till like last mastodon
I would like to deny this, but I can't.
The only thing I wish I could deny is the 40+ part
I personally blame the iPhone. Shit all started going downhill from then
Nope. You got the time period right, but I would like to posit it’s when they started letting our Parents, drunk uncles and dumb ass aunties on Facebook.
The problem always has, and always will be, Facebook.
I completely agree. Should have never taught the geriatric community how to access FB
In our defense, corporations ruined the world wide web. It still has so much potential if they weren't involved.
It’s been corporate the entire time. The rise of the www literally fueled a global economic bubble.
The bubble was because of speculative finance assholes ripping each other off by pointing at the thin vaneer of corporate windows built on the tools that were mostly developed by the military, universities, CERN and countless nerds' computer rooms and garages.
Corporations are made of people, and people more broadly let them gain power. That doesn't seem like a defence, it's just a description of our failure.
Hell yeah, my geocities Nine Inch Nails fan site helped build the Internet
Indeed. You were up above it.
I had a geocities page all about skateboarding. I’d give you the url, but I neither remember it, nor doubt your phone is wide enough for a url that long
Will you join my webring?
well I feel seen
Mario teaches typing and the Oregon Trail on 5" disks were just a dream.
Kings Quest 4 on like 8 disks I think?
5.25" you absolute philistine
It was supposed to make everything better, we were sure of it.
We were horribly wrong. Sorry.
We built it first on PHP and later Node.js. It was clear from the start we had no idea what we were doing.
Fuck that. I don't regret it. We built the world wide web from nothing for everyone and had it fucking stolen by rich assholes who put our community resources WE developed behind ads and paywalls. Unlike those uncreative hacks we have the talent to take it back.
The bit we should regret is that we let the rich corporates steal it.