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Do you think it would be more cool if society kept using tech like telephones (the non-"smart" type), pagers, telegraphs, and radios, instead of the internet? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I kinda wanna see an alt-history TV show where every technology gets developed but then technology stagnates around the internet era and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.

What do you think of this type of society?

I think a sort of like text packet-radio of public chatrooms would be so cool as an alternative to the current "internet". Like a meshtastic sort of thing, and Libraries would have info on how to build them, and some stores will sell them.

So basically like a internet-but-not-really-internet sort of "internet", and there would be range limited, and you have the option to not pass on messages you deem hateful. And no corporation will control it, no central servers. Less trolling.

Am I making any sense?

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[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

The Internet was nice in the begining... But like everything ...I guess it's capitalism and marketing that destroy it.

It used to be an alternative reality of freedom now it's like a cancer just as much as it is good.

I liked life before in the era of flip phones.

We are all being watched used and manipulated almost constantly now. And I don't think the trade off is worth it anymore.

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You were then too you just are aware of it now.

[–] LetMeBeMe@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They could only incept me from the back and occasionally the side of the cereal box back then

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 13 hours ago

And the TV. And remember the radio 😂