I remember jumping from Firefox to Chrome because Firefox became so shitty for a while. It’s sad because at the time I had Firefox so tuned, bookmarks perfect, theme perfect, but it was slow and ate up all resources. Chrome was “fast as fuck, boy!”, but it took a while to get used to it and get it how it was perfect. I’m still trying to get Firefox to where it’s perfect again, but it’s slow going. I’m still about 75% Chrome and 25% Firefox.

Kind of. But, without the “cool” factor. You were a geek, a nerd. Computers were for nerds for a while, the internet was like a computer library which were also only for nerds. Towards the late 90’s, it started to become cool and then suddenly everyone and their grandpa had a computer and the internet.

It was a bit more difficult back then, too. I was dialing into Seattle (long distance) for my closest POP for the internet. Had to use trumpet for Windows because it didn’t have a native dialer, and Mosaic for a browser. Before that, it was all BBS’s. Always fun finding new sites (and we also had a “internet phonebook” that was a physical book with a list of most websites).

Yea, and they really implemented that poorly, too. Reddit video has to be the worst video playback (when it does play back) on the internet since 1996…

Yup. He made the mods and users the bad guys and he is just trying to be the good guy. He’s a dick, probably a narcissist, too. He’s the victim, blah blah blah.

Those little Snoos. That company is like a family. A bunch of rockstars. How could those evil mods and users do this to them?!

Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I’m thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I’m good with it.

Several of he hobby ones. Ben Eater (6502 based computers, 8 bit computer), local ones, history/science based ones, infosec/sysadmin/etc. ones. There are some Lemmy based ones, but it’ll take a while to build up. I’m hoping that I can contribute to them and see them grow a bit. But, others are just where I could comment and enjoy as I lack the real knowledge to contribute very much (the history/science ones that required more in-depth knowledge and not just a “Wikipedia degree of arts of internet research for obscure questions”.