Post #4022915

2026-07-23 00:18 UTC

Every time I see people clamoring for the internet to be like it used to be before, I cannot help but wonder if they’re also thinking of fixing an issue from the old internet, which is that the world in “world wide web” often looked like this.

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@Burstaholic@infosec.exchange 2026-07-23 00:30

@erkhyan@yiff.life mostly that were things besides the few big social media app companies

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@kalisz79@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-23 05:50

@erkhyan@yiff.life Tbh in Poland technically every phone owner was able to connect their modem to the landline and use the internet access via the countrywide phone number 0202122. It was in 1996.

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@erkhyan@yiff.life 2026-07-23 00:40

I’ve mentioned it before, but for example, less than a third of the population of Madagascar has internet access in 2026, and the vast majority of those users only have access to Meta’s social networks. I do not think “retvrn to those blessed years when only 0.01% of the population had internet access” sounds quite attractive as a solution to me.

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@hi_cial@donphan.social 2026-07-23 00:20

@erkhyan@yiff.life id love to see the commectivity we have now without the corporate oversight (obviously, being on fedi)

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@nlupo@amikejo.xyz 2026-07-23 00:25

@erkhyan@yiff.life I'm pretty sure some people in Bulgaria had dial up modems around 1995-1996, so it's not quite accurate.

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