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Is that really "the old Internet" though? That seems more like the Internet from like... 15 years ago maybe? That's definitely not "the old Internet" lol I'm pretty sure people still do this don't they? I don't have any real social media accounts anymore so I haven't really kept up with it
People don't really do away messages anymore... that was over 20 years ago on AIM.
I still remember my ICQ number.
I'm pretty sure I do, too. I was a little jealous of my friend that had one like two digits shorter than mine.
I'm an 8 digit.
Hell yeah! 3369689
Some of my friends had 6 digit icq numbers!
Think we used it for ultima online. Miss those days
Every message is an away message now.
The internet from 15 years ago is the old internet for anyone under 30.
And anyone over 30 is obviously a Boomer so we can safely disregard their perspective.
i would place the old/new internet divide on the commercialization of smartphones. Not on the user age but how we got online. Internaut profile too has changed from people who work with computers + gamers to anybody
Smartphones changed the internet after 2007
i'd say it's the rise of social media, in this specific context at least.
it's the smartphones that rose social media
when people started posting while waiting for their shit to come out, shit started oozing on these lines too
excuse my misanthropic moment here
i would say it was social media that really kicked off smartphones. The concept of being to communicate on a platform like myspace, but on a phone, and from anywhere, was truly revolutionary. It was a cyclical process, much like it is today.
Otherwise a smartphone is just a fancy flip phone, which is what people were primarily using back then anyway. Until something gave the smartphone a reason to exist, nobody needed one, i would argue it's primarily social media that was that factor.
Fuck man, my oldest is 15 now lol. He’s about to be the same age as I was when I was first dating the girl that I’m with now.
I disregard everything anyone says so maybe that’s either delusionment or enlightenment. Time will tell
I'd say so, just not the oldest.