<story><title>Why isn&apos;t the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).&lt;p&gt;The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&amp;#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>...and sometimes, things really were better, too.  Regressions happen, and the Eternal September is real.&lt;p&gt;This does not mean that there aren&amp;#x27;t wonderful things available in today&amp;#x27;s web environment, too.  There is no one to blame other than the natural evolution of a system. But something was lost, and it is ok to miss it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why isn&apos;t the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).&lt;p&gt;The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&amp;#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beezischillin</author><text>A lot of online communities today are unbearable tho as everything&amp;#x27;s become so politicised. It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention. It was probably something that also happened before that but it somehow became really prevalent, at least. And often that took the fun out of it. I kind of think fondly of those times. Now of course this is just anecdotal, but that&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;ve experienced in most communities I used to frequent and perhaps lots of other people here did too.&lt;p&gt;In fact, it&amp;#x27;s something I really appreciate here on HN, the tone of discussions is rather pleasant and on topic and it&amp;#x27;s very rare to see people intentionally driving it into the ground, although in contrast to something like a Facebook group it&amp;#x27;s a lot less personal.</text></comment>