When the Internet Was a Place
32 points by herbertl 6 hours ago | 7 comments

qsera 20 minutes ago
And a little while before that, the desktop computer was a mystical thing that could take you to wonderlands. I was truly an intriguing machine, instead of just another home appliance.
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pixelpoet 3 hours ago
The article seems to repeat its thesis almost verbatim three times.
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booleandilemma 2 hours ago
Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one who felt that. I think the author just learned the word panopticon.
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userbinator 17 minutes ago
It doesn't have the usual giveaways of LLM text (except for the rather prominent dashes) but definitely has a similar verboseness and repetitiveness. Human writing can be like that too, if its author wanted to pad it out to a word quota.
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booleandilemma 2 hours ago
The thing that kills me is how serious it's gotten. Can't joke around anymore, not unless you're doing it ironically.
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userbinator 16 minutes ago
Memes are still a thing.
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Ayaan2004 2 hours ago
i love those days where we uses visit internet cafes to play games and enjoys the internet through searching in google.com
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