General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Barry Poppins]

damn 3 monitors

Two curved monitors and then a full TV monitor

 

[Dubb]

I had my ICQ number memorized for years after not using it... but now I can't remember it and it saddens me.

 

[Loochblade]

Except he doesn’t like it and wants to go back to Orange

Oh...I didn't know that. Well, we have to go back to the former colors now.

 

[Loochblade]

I actually use all three of Firefox, Chrome, and Edge

So many different browsers and you still aren't using the only good one.

 

[Barry Poppins]

So many different browsers and you still aren't using the only good one.

Tbh there isn't any good browser anymore.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Enshittification made certain of that.

 

[Loochblade]

 

[Barry Poppins]

It's exactly what happened to social media.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Enshittification made certain of that.

Dead Internet theory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Barry Poppins]

It's gradually gotten worse and worse over time, thanks to degrading quality control and competition with other, more popular, low quality social media platforms.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Circling back to Netscape

 

[Barry Poppins]

It used to be a great platform, so was AOL's own search browser.

 

[Loochblade]

Dead Internet theory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So you all ARE not real after all. I fucking knew it.

 

[Loochblade]

 

[Barry Poppins]

But because you had to pay a small fee for them, when Microsoft released IE, a very clearly lower quality browser, people went for IE because a free browser, in the eyes of the public, is a better browser than a higher quality pay-for browser.