Twitter is honestly pretty funny now. A small army of sycophants have somehow managed to turn it into a political statement to give $8 dollars to the world's second richest fool. Meanwhile, the overgrown edgelord himself has managed to turn giving away free blue checks into some form of punishment. Like the cone of shame, but... smaller. And more pixelly.
"But why are you still on Twitter?"
Listen. I am an internet ancient. I stood amidst LiveJournal as it crumbled while I watched the fall of Flickr. I was there both times Tumblr burned down, toasting marshmallows over its smouldering ruin, laughing at the folly of Verizon. The death of Twitter was foretold by the dark prophecies of the forgotten internets. I am there to witness its passing as the old internet is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
@XanIndigo @stavvers I laugh derisively at your internet youth. I was there with usenet, 1991, and before that AOL when it was literally Mac-only in 1989 or 1990 on my Mac IIcx. Before that, I was on Prodigy. Before that, I was using a Kaypro II and Kaypro 10 with a 300 baud modem to hook into text BBS. I ran a Hermes BBS on my Mac at home in 1991. In fact, I go so far back as to remember my first programs on my TRS-80 with the cassette "drive" and learning LOGO on an Apple ][. My neighbor's dad had an Osborne we'd play with and a Tandy computer upon which we played the first Wizardry - figuring out all the secret codes when there was no internet or bbs yet.
I'm as ancient online as a frigging T-Rex and even the Brontosaurus doesn't have anything on me. 🤣
Web sites? Yeah. That was "The future" in my day back with Mosaic. Oh yeah. I remember. I remember it well.
You kids....😀
