0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ways_wilderness 24 Jun \ on: Bitcoin seems like the kind of early 2000s Internet thing bitcoin_beginners
2004 was early??
But yeah, it was still wild and free even that late :-)
One thing that has always irked me is that I was too late btw, did my first, super weird website in 98... Then the first paid one in 2000, well before any CMS-es.
The years ~2005 were interesting, with CMS-es up to the job for so many even small customers things started accelerating, all along with emerging social media of course!
So there is that parallel for sure. Now, when do we get that phase that we had when everyone and their dog got a cell phone? Remember that summer when absolutely anyone who made a call just had to ask "where are you?" hehe
That kinda phase is yet to come for Bitcoin!
I said 2004 because of MySpace. The vibes of a free currency seem to me much more connected like early MySpace.
I mean, even earlier forums in 98 have a similar vibe. But the forums still seemed like anonymous hidden niches. MySpace was the first time the internet feeled from the vibes like being in public.
I can't describe it better
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Yeah, actually there was a very active site in my native language from around then until it was taken down some years later. So most used that instead of Mysepace, it was even a real contender to FB while it lasted...
Can't remember the details now, but there was something murky about the way it was nuked, might have included bribing and/or putting pressure on the lead developer.
There is still another site for wild freaks, that was really something for years, but now it scary to see how drugged out, stressed out and scared the new, young users there are...
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MySpace and social media in general are centralizing forces.
The Internet used to be decentralized and much cooler before.
Way way cooler.
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nobody thought about that yet in 2004
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