• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    35·
    11 days ago

    My mom almost bought me a tamagachi in the 90s. I say almost because what she actually bought me was a cheap knock off.

    What I remember most about it was my friend showed me their tamagachi, and it’s born as an egg.

    Then I remember what mine was born as.

    Imagine seeing this pixel art gorilla, and then he sees a second pixel art gorilla wearing a skirt. Then you see the closeup of the male gorillas face, and he wiggles his eyebrows exitedly.

    The next thing you see is a pixel art of a sperm attacking an egg. In a knockoff tamagachi meant for children. I was 13, so I was old enough to know what I was seeing, but it definately had some real WTF vibes. Let’s put it this way. I’m 41. I remember nothing else about that tamagachi besides seeing pixel art gorilla sperm.

    That’s all. I just wanted more people to know about chinese knockoff tamagachi with gorilla sperm.

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 days ago

    There was a window where the internet was a huge positive.

    That ended 10 to 15 years ago.

    Kinda coinciding with social media apps.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      10 days ago

      It’s almost like corporations took over the internet, monetized it, and deployed every possible tool to convert it into an addicting advertising platform without any regulations or standards, driving up social contention, misinformation and propaganda because the more rage you can instill in the population the more “engagement” everything will get.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      thats when the MBAs took over from the nerds because there was way too much money, and somehow not enough.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 days ago

      It was slower, the graphics were basic, and we could get knocked offline by someone picking up a telephone. But damn, it really felt like reaching out and touching the world for the first time. It took so long for my mom to understand that yes, I can be chatting with friends online at 2am. She would always ask, “Why aren’t they asleep?” and I’d have to remind her that other time zones exist.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      31·
      10 days ago

      Yea, I remember when everyone thought putting your personal info on the internet would get you murdered. Then MySpace came out and everyone quickly forgot all that.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    111·
    10 days ago

    It turned out that gatekeepers were the only ones keeping the hoard of idiots and rubes off the Internet. RIP quality free content.

    • multifariace@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      I find quality free content everywhere. I mean, maybe not this post, but most things I see are free from quality.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 days ago

    One could argue it did work, just a little too well. In 1995 forget trans rights, gay marriage was just starting to become a question and about half of white people were still against interracial marriage. As the one atheist kid in that era, I was certainly an outlier and society still regarded it as a default that everyone was religious. Basically only black people were worried about whether police were beating people up too much and for the vast majority the only question was why we weren’t being harsher on criminals. Society’s views on things have changed very rapidly as a result of being able to access information very easily.

    I think what we’re seeing today is not a result of the internet, but a reaction to the result of the internet. Things have changed too fast for some and there’s basically a cultural luddite movement.

    • hark@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      Depends on who the gatekeeper is. Would you assume the same about someone being kicked out of twitter/x?

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    My daughter got a tamagotchi with like a colour LED screen that does way more than the ones we used to have, somehow they seem less fun to me, maybe cause they’re like $80 and I’m now the one buying them

    • IMALlama@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      You can buy what looks to be the OG on Amazon for $20 if you’re so motivated. Odds are you can find them at other retailers too.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    Grunge is not a fad. And for the record Eddie better and mark langlain ,however you spell it… Are the last front men standing from the grunge era

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Oh that’s right, in the Internet’s early days people thought it would do what they also thought television would do in its early days. But then the Internet did the same things television did - became an advertising platform and and dumbed down its addicted users. Maybe when the next communications breakthrough comes we’ll realize… lol nah of course we won’t.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    The “This machine kills fascists” sticker that John Green put on his laptop for his Crash Course World History series has not aged well at all