Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia
Instead there are the oldinternetwannaberetards responding or people who simply have no idea what they're talking about in terms of discord etc.
It's not hard to understand XMPP IS ABLE To run on all sorts of devices. Discord has become a easy convenience because people aren't able to set up anything themselves.
man I can't be bothered to read all 7 pages of this thread, but I encourage you, mister 10126, if you ever read this, to write an article or something and put it up somewhere, or idk print a little book. As you say, there is no archaeological record of this history you're talking about so it's good to preserve even one man's biased memoir into the future.
>read all 7 pages
shit I already had
I couldn't agree with you more. That was by far the most interesting reply to this thread. If only it wasn't done on simply an anonymous account or left some sort of link or contact. I guess that's the heart and soul of imageboards. People posting gems with the same cloak as everyone else yet only to vanish into the wire.
>The response? I was muted for an entire day, but then banned shortly after. Two users were "bawling their eyes out at the keyboard" claiming it was a scam and something malicious.
This is less about them being zoomers and more about them being normies/noobs, I get the same reaction from people older than me (and I'm in my mid 30s) when proposing using anything FOSS. The average user is lazy, the average user wants convenience. The average user wasn't online 26 years ago not because of price (PC prices where crashing back then) but because it was "too hard" to setup even the most basic phone connection, and "too boring" because there was barely any video or music and few pictures. I see boomers scrolling endlessly thru short videos just like zoomers do and I can't get them to watch a 10min mini doc without them getting distracted, its insane. Recently a famous actor said directors now force him to repeat the plot of the movie every 5 minutes because viewers are not paying attention.
>Zoomers are doing the same thing with internet culture. They see the surface aesthetics of old websites - the bright colors, the GIF animations, the "quirky" layouts - and think recreating these visual elements will somehow recapture what made that era special.
Well yeah that was always a thing, like before my time there was a revival of the 50's back in the 80's when boomers who were barely in diapers back in that era then would dress in rockabilly (or whatever is called) style and play Elvis music and stuff. There was another mini revival of that in the late 00's when hipsters who were the kids of said boomers did it too, tho at that point it was really deformed and historically inaccurate almost on purpose to make it more fashionable or whatever.
>Instead of building their own photo sharing solution or joining existing decentralized alternatives, they're asking for "an app like Instagram" - meaning they want someone else to build them a centralized platform that feels like the old centralized platform.
Again they are lazy and want the ease of use of modern apps, we're talking about people who say they are scared of fax machines because those are "hard" to use.
Consider this: there are now two generations of people who have been raised with touch devices, not computers, devices like smartphones and tablets. They never had to use a keyboard to type, never had to actually install an app just go into an app store and select an app. Most zoomers don't have any idea of what a filesystem is, command line is esoteric alien knowledge to them.
>The macOS tweet is the cherry on top - they're worried about animation smoothness on premium Apple hardware while supposedly advocating for returning to simpler, independent web solutions.
To be fair a lot of people went nuts with OSX animations back in the day, Linux's compiz cube too felt like sci-fi stuff in those days.
>When pressed, they fall back to: "the entire point for those people IS the design language... they were never interested in anything else." This misses the point entirely. Design languages emerge from underlying technical and cultural constraints.
Just wanted to add lowpoly and PSX graphics. None of those games would be playable on the original PSX, many are too complex for even the Dreamcast or a PS2, and the controls are straight out of modern games too because zoomers would freak out if they had to play with strafe or tank controls.
Point is they want the looks not the original experience.