Post

The Internet was amazing up until roughly 2009. The rapidly accelerating decline began with Facebook

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

4/10/26, 11:47 pm42 reposts301 likes

🇨🇦 Tyler James

@tylerjamesh.bsky.social

Smartphones were probably a big factor. Having the Internet with you at all times certainly fucked people up

Joel Cunningham

@joelevard.com

Yes, but I would argue that that is mostly true because the internet was poisoned from the top down by engagement algorithms

The Cathartic

@thecathartic.bsky.social

Yep. We should have stopped at MySpace and said "This is good, no need to take this any further."

Zuveum

@zuveum.bsky.social

Tom doesn’t call anymore - this is the saddest part for me …

Aunt Teefa

@joelcorn.bsky.social

Internet in a box is the culprit I blame.

Mental Wreckage

@mntlwrckg.bsky.social

Everything that makes life great eventually gets discovered by capitalists, who then rape it, suck the life out of it, and then turn it into a shopping mall to squeeze just a few more bucks outta humanity.

D.A. Rosenthal

@darosenthal.bsky.social

facebook and the iphone were a double whammy

Big BOOOO Bongo

@bigbluebongo.bsky.social

In the early days of the internet, the only people telling you the world was gonna end was Group X

M Carbone

@ladolcevitaone.bsky.social

I’m old enough to remember something about Facebook being saved by investors from Russia…?

M Carbone

@ladolcevitaone.bsky.social

“saved”

calicoday.bsky.social

@calicoday.bsky.social

Early facebook was actu amazing. Huge numbers of people could share with others beyond their neighbourhood or direct contacts for the first time. It turned when facebook started to go biz (even then it could've stayed workable but that needed diff management and political/economic climate). Sigh.

Joel Cunningham

@joelevard.com

Right, 2005 - 2009 or so Facebook was great

Jim Mayfield

@bigpoison.bsky.social

Smart phones

Beast (Frasier’s version)

@takes2makeugohmm.bsky.social

Boomers discover Facebook was the real turn. Boomers discover Twitter then broke the world.

Jim Mayfield

@bigpoison.bsky.social

Nah. We were ruining the world from our BlackBerries when you kids were poking each other.

Beast (Frasier’s version)

@takes2makeugohmm.bsky.social

To be fair, my Boomer mom only used Facebook the correct way: To post and comment on dog photos. But she’d be first to acknowledge the boomer brand is at an all time low.

manabouttown.bsky.social

@manabouttown.bsky.social

Yeap. And the iPhone made it really simple & put it in their hands, all of the time.

Mrs. G

@janbellina.bsky.social

Patronising gits! I was using Sperrylink in 1984 and writing shell code on Unix because then software didn't exist for what I needed. Windows wasn't a thing and I didn't even have a mouse yet! The iPhone (and its non-phone predecessor the iPod) was grabbed by young people first; the grownups were on

Mrs. G

@janbellina.bsky.social

Blackberries, Palm OS and IBM's Simon, because although without a touch screen they had full office comms functionality far ahead of anything Apple offered at first.

macleanw

@macleanw.bsky.social

This is true