I wonder if the p2p maxis of the time feel that the internet of today isn't worth using, or if it is just not what they originally bought into, or if it is actively bad.
The name "p2p maxis" kinda implies they would have to be opposed. I suspect you didn't mean that literally.
I can only speak as one person who was in his teens around the time the interwebs became available in our neck of the woods.
Before the glorious world wide web arrived and conquered all, some of us used to run dial-in BBSes for communicating with the world via FidoNet, to hang out and check out each others designs much like a precursor to early personal websites. Heck, we even occasionally played DukeNukem 3D in heads up battles via dial-up, just to see if it really worked. Small scale LAN parties were the norm and the places we'd exchange code and ideas to run our BBSes and/or share files.
Sure the majority of internet services today are trash in comparison to the conversations we had off- and online. The noise-to-signal ratio is just completely tilted towards trash. But the internet itself isn't to blame. There always has been and will be quality out there. eg. I recall a few really good forums, many of them still exist.
The internet protocol cannot be blamed for the vapid stuff people flock to. Only you can be blamed for involving yourself with it.
The name "p2p maxis" kinda implies they would have to be opposed. I suspect you didn't mean that literally.
I can only speak as one person who was in his teens around the time the interwebs became available in our neck of the woods.
Before the glorious world wide web arrived and conquered all, some of us used to run dial-in BBSes for communicating with the world via FidoNet, to hang out and check out each others designs much like a precursor to early personal websites.
Heck, we even occasionally played DukeNukem 3D in heads up battles via dial-up, just to see if it really worked.
Small scale LAN parties were the norm and the places we'd exchange code and ideas to run our BBSes and/or share files.
Sure the majority of internet services today are trash in comparison to the conversations we had off- and online. The noise-to-signal ratio is just completely tilted towards trash.
But the internet itself isn't to blame. There always has been and will be quality out there. eg. I recall a few really good forums, many of them still exist.
The internet protocol cannot be blamed for the vapid stuff people flock to. Only you can be blamed for involving yourself with it.