(April 14, 2015 at 11:30 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(April 13, 2015 at 11:41 am)AFTT47 Wrote: By making the internet easily accessible and more attractive to the less gifted. At least it did coral them into one place.
You must be thinking of AOL.
I see you are a true veteran of the web, dating back to the mid 1990s. Yes, I remember AO Hell in its heyday and all the worthless CDs pasted to the back cover of magazines. I guess there is some parallel to Facebook. The difference is that most people who ventured online in those days recognized AOL for what it was. Today, people go online for no other reason than to access fluff like Facebook and Twitter - and they outnumber those of us who recognize that the internet and the web is so much more. The old AOL was a joke. Most of today's internet denizens don't recognize that the likes of Facebook and Twitter are a much worse joke.
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