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What's something you wish to bring back from the late 90's/early 00's internet?

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MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
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The lack of ways for cooperations to gather information about internet users.

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Rick@thesimplecorner.org
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Pretty much. I feel like everything is out to track you and to try and sell you garbage products. And if your in the US you have no rights to tell these companies to remove your data. Unless your in California.

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Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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I miss gopher and usenet

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Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org
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That it wasn’t flooded with the everyday person’s idiocy.

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Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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I used to think the internet was awesome because it would allow everyone to communicate with each other without limits. Now I think it’s awful, for the same reason.

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the_football_maestro@lemmy.ml
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I’d like to see less use of JavaScript tracking and more “simple websites”!

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saba@lemmy.sdf.org
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I agree. I use Pelican to build my website and I don’t use any javascript. It’s simple, it’s fast (it doesn’t really have much content that would be interesting to anybody, but it’s mine and I like it!)

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the_football_maestro@lemmy.ml
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One of the things I like about Lemmy is that the devs had the forethought of developing in Rust rather than PHP or another prototyping language that doesn’t scale as well.

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ArbitraryMary@lemmy.world
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I miss the days when it wasn’t flooded with weaponised idiocy.

That and neopets.

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Willem@kutsuya.dev
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While not the same, neopets is still alive!

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