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I miss it. It was great back when it wasn't the domain of our glorious benevolent corporate overlords.
I remember reading somewhere that people follow a predictable course when they're new to the internet:
Curiosity - use the internet to search for and look up info directly on your interests, or go down the wikipedia rabbit hole, look up lyrics of songs you like, etc.
entertainment - internet culture specific communities and their entertainment. This is the bit about memes and cat pictures and things.
Infotainment - spending all time steeped in new evolving news, whether thats politics or media news or sports related or whatever.
Most of the western world has gone through this together, but other countries (such as India) have had internet come to the masses with mobile internet and are following this path now.
But the majority of the developed world is on the deep end of constant streams of infotainment on current events and politics. This constant exposure and decrying the downfall of humanity looks set to continue. I wonder what comes after.
I wonder what the next stage could be...