Anyone else think the Internet is a bit too easy?

@Morrow said:

@ZeForgotten said:

@BrockNRolla said:

@Morrow said:

@James_Giant_Peach said:

@Morrow said:

@vikingdeath1: Why'd you refer to "dumb bimbos" surfing the net? The dumb people surfing the net (and infecting their PC's with viruses and trojans they get from all the porn sites) are men, while women, or "bimbos", as you call them, spend most of their internet time on either social networks or shopping. What's dumber? I'd say the porn.

Those are some terrible generalizations there buddy.

Defeating him with his own weapons.

Yeah! I mean, what is this whole women "spend most of their internet time either on social networks or shopping?" I mean, when do they even find time for the internet? With all that raising the kids, doing the laundry, and making the food, I wouldn't even think they could find the time to sit on the internet.

The real question is, who is the man (or traitor) who said "ok" when his wife said she was stepping out of the kitchen?

I don't think any woman needed an approval for emancipation. Or do you guys need our ok to do something?

I desperately seek approval from anyone willing to give it.

Ha ha it's so misogynist to suggest women spend a lot of time on social media. It's not like women are the target demographic of a social media gaming industry that's stacking cash to the ceiling right now.

I'm most certainly not ignoring facts and pretending to be offended to convince internet strangers I'm a real progressive dude so if any hot babes want to pm me to chat just holla.

@vikingdeath1 said:

@Wrighteous86: nah dude, I wasn't even Alive before the internet wasn't cool. "Cool Internet" is alls I know

This answers my question. I guess what I would say is, its cool that information is so easily available that you don't need an advanced degree to get it anymore. Democratization of thingsis both good and bad. nostalgia for things just because they are old particularly if you didn't live through them is slightly odd to me but ok i guess. Look i had 56k until my freshman year of college. But even that had to have been easier than the dial-in BBS stuff days that Jeff and Ryan wax rhapsodic about.

@artgarcrunkle said:

Ha ha it's so misogynist to suggest women spend a lot of time on social media. It's not like women are the target demographic of a social media gaming industry that's stacking cash to the ceiling right now.

I'm most certainly not ignoring facts and pretending to be offended to convince internet strangers I'm a real progressive dude so if any hot babes want to pm me to chat just holla.

I said they use social networks, not social media games. Statistically, women use the internet for conversing and staying in touch with friends more compared to men. And that's what social networks are about.

The cool part of the Internet, Gopher, is still alive. Join us if you think you're cool. Start your own Gooher server and you'll be the envy of all your friends.

@vikingdeath1: That is probably one of the most pretentious things I have read all month. Congrats!

The internet is just getting better and better. sorry.

OF all things to write about being "too easy these days"

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves and you just put in GPS coordinates theres gonna be a lot of oldschoolers than wanna burn brodies in the back of a Costco parking lot.

@Humanity said:

OF all things to write about being "too easy these days"

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves and you just put in GPS coordinates theres gonna be a lot of oldschoolers than wanna burn brodies in the back of a Costco parking lot.

But slinging around burning sick dank brodies is fun....

Let me pick this genius up off the floor and make the point he is trying to make. People are more comfortable dealing with the vast landscape of the internet in small consumable doses. They want the internet to be accessible so they are gravitating back to centralized portals as opposed to exploring for themselves. Facebook is exactly what AOL used to be, just no discs in the mail. The one place on the internet you can go to interact with friends, get news, play games, and even shop to some extent. It is a bit of a digression and it is a result of the medium catering to the masses. Or rather the masses getting comfortable with it. The nice thing is that even tho this digression has happened we can all use the internet freely and how we choose. And consume as many sites or create as many site as we want. So don't let the trend get you down fair post creator. Just continue to enjoy the internet and allow those that choose to limit themselves and their usage of it be less enlightened.

@ZeForgotten said:

@BrockNRolla said:

@Morrow said:

@James_Giant_Peach said:

@Morrow said:

@vikingdeath1: Why'd you refer to "dumb bimbos" surfing the net? The dumb people surfing the net (and infecting their PC's with viruses and trojans they get from all the porn sites) are men, while women, or "bimbos", as you call them, spend most of their internet time on either social networks or shopping. What's dumber? I'd say the porn.

Those are some terrible generalizations there buddy.

Defeating him with his own weapons.

Yeah! I mean, what is this whole women "spend most of their internet time either on social networks or shopping?" I mean, when do they even find time for the internet? With all that raising the kids, doing the laundry, and making the food, I wouldn't even think they could find the time to sit on the internet.

The real question is, who is the man (or traitor) who said "ok" when his wife said she was stepping out of the kitchen?

I don't think any woman needed an approval for emancipation. Or do you guys need our ok to do something?

YEAH GUYS THE FUTURE IS TOO FUCKING EASY! LET'S GO BACK TO THE STONE AGES!

Try navigating the internet only by using links provided by spam emails while having no virus protection or adblock installed. Pretty sure there's an achievement for it, worth about 200g.

Nostalgia is clouding your judgement, nobody wants to go back to 56k modem days

@rebgav said:

@Humanity said:

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves

Those already exist, they're called buses.

The things the American pioneers used? I think you're being ridiculous, dude.

@ZeForgotten said:

Hey, Buzzkill McFemale, stop taking the internet so seriously :P

The internet is not an entity. The internet is us people.

*Gasp* Isn't the internet in all its entirety contained in the big blue big letter 'E' icon I always click on the screen?

@supamon said:

*Gasp* Isn't the internet in all its entirety contained in the big blue big letter 'E' icon I always click on the screen?

Your internet privilege is revoked.

@ZeForgotten said:

Hey, Buzzkill McFemale, stop taking the internet so seriously :P

The internet is not an entity. The internet is us people.

@rebgav said:

@artgarcrunkle said:

@rebgav said:

@Humanity said:

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves

Those already exist, they're called buses.

The things the American pioneers used? I think you're being ridiculous, dude.

Everyone knows that the pioneers settled the west by train, not by bus. Trains which ran on apples and smallpox.

there are no trains on the west coast, don't be silly

I remember when I was in college and using p2p to download those GI Joe Fenslerfilm dubs. Now you can go to youtube and watch them. I wouldn't go back.

@supamon said:

*Gasp* Isn't the internet in all its entirety contained in the big blue big letter 'E' icon I always click on the screen?

Nope, it's the letter N.

@Animasta said:

@rebgav said:

@artgarcrunkle said:

@rebgav said:

@Humanity said:

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves

Those already exist, they're called buses.

The things the American pioneers used? I think you're being ridiculous, dude.

Everyone knows that the pioneers settled the west by train, not by bus. Trains which ran on apples and smallpox.

there are no trains on the west coast, don't be silly

I've seen some videos made on the west coast where people are running trains, so I think you're wrong.

@rebgav said:

@artgarcrunkle said:

@Animasta said:

@rebgav said:

@artgarcrunkle said:

@rebgav said:

@Humanity said:

When they finally mainstream those cars that drive themselves

Those already exist, they're called buses.

The things the American pioneers used? I think you're being ridiculous, dude.

Everyone knows that the pioneers settled the west by train, not by bus. Trains which ran on apples and smallpox.

there are no trains on the west coast, don't be silly

I've seen some videos made on the west coast where people are running trains, so I think you're wrong.

WORD.

You can jailbreak your car and download a brodie-spinning app but it's just not the same

@ZeForgotten said:

@Morrow said:

@ZeForgotten said:

Hey, Buzzkill McFemale, stop taking the internet so seriously :P

The internet is not an entity. The internet is us people.

Yet you knew what I meant but had to keep going just to see if you could annoy me. Well, I won't control how you live your life Miss Sandy V. Agina. Go out there and be a proud negative nancy :P

I had no intention to annoy you, nor did I really knew what you meant. I just thought I should remind people (like you) that speaking of "the internet" means speaking about "the people".

Because the internet is what we make it. So if you chose to make the internet a place where insults towards women like "bitch" or "bimbo" becomes somewhat casual, you have to deal with the reaction.

And a simple call for more civility towards the female gender isn't really a reason to call me names like "Sandy V. Agina". It just makes you look like a primitive, immature person.

@ZeForgotten said:

@Morrow said:

@ZeForgotten said:

Hey, Buzzkill McFemale, stop taking the internet so seriously :P

The internet is not an entity. The internet is us people.

Yet you knew what I meant but had to keep going just to see if you could annoy me. Well, I won't control how you live your life Miss Sandy V. Agina. Go out there and be a proud negative nancy :P

I had no intention to annoy you, nor did I really knew what you meant. I just thought I should remind people (like you) that speaking of "the internet" means speaking about "the people".

Because the internet is what we make it. So if you chose to make the internet a place where insults towards women like "bitch" or "bimbo" becomes somewhat casual, you have to deal with the reaction.

And a simple call for more civility towards the female gender isn't really a reason to call me names like "Sandy V. Agina". It just makes you look like a primitive, immature person.

@Morrow "SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE NEEDS TO GET LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID WOOOOOOO!"

@ZeForgotten "AND THIS DUDE? NEEDS TO GET LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID"

Personally I think posting has gotten a bit TOO easy as well. We should all have to put in randomly generated codes e-mailed to our accounts every time we make a post. Kinda getting tired of the kiddy way we get reply boxes served up on a platter around here. Better yet you should have to compile the reply page in HTML yourself every time.

@Atramentous said:

@supamon said:

*Gasp* Isn't the internet in all its entirety contained in the big blue big letter 'E' icon I always click on the screen?

Your internet privilege is revoked.

Nooo! I will bring this up with the better business bureau! Microsoft lied to me by promising me the internet was available at the touch of my fingertips!

@Gaff said:

Nope, it's the letter N.

Now THAT brings back adolescent memories. I remember first encountering the internet at a local library computer, had no clue what it was and was randomly typing in words into the URL to find stuff.

I don't know about you but I don't miss dial-up.

@artgarcrunkle said:

@Morrow "SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE NEEDS TO GET LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID WOOOOOOO!"

@ZeForgotten "AND THIS DUDE? NEEDS TO GET LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAID"

Son, I am disappoint.

Well I do remember when there wasn't an Internet, and also when there was a slow, shitty, low-content Internet with crappy search engines and HTML-only pages, and it sucked. Well it was awesome at the time, but it sucked compared to today's Internet. I don't look to the Internet for problem-solving challenges. Enough of those in daily life, school, work, family, even video games. I want the Internet to be easy and to do shit for me. That's a large part of the point.

@Breadfan: No snow on Kashyyk. Not canon.

@Atramentous said:

@supamon said:

*Gasp* Isn't the internet in all its entirety contained in the big blue big letter 'E' icon I always click on the screen?

Your internet privilege is revoked.

Nooo! I will bring this up with the better business bureau! Microsoft lied to me by promising me the internet was available at the touch of my fingertips!

@Gaff said:

Nope, it's the letter N.

Now THAT brings back adolescent memories. I remember first encountering the internet at a local library computer, had no clue what it was and was randomly typing in words into the URL to find stuff.

If you never experienced the shift from no-nada-zip internet to what we have today you would freaking amazed how much porn sites contributed to advancements and streamlining we enjoy today.

Why do you capitalise random words? Like "Really", "Was" and "Trying".

@morrelloman: You speak the words that my blazed mind at the time of post couldn't even BEGIN to comprehend! Thankyou good Sir!

@RenMcKormack:

Where are you getting nostalgia from dude? I never said I missed how difficult it used to be (because I had already said I wasn't alive for it...) I was just trying to say that that difficulty was good for the sole purpose of forcing people to have to problem solve, instead of getting it on a silver platter. I never Had to experience that, it sounds Terrible! and im waaaaaay too lazy to want to give up the simple nature of the thing I use everyday. Even going so far as to Say: " I don't think that we should make the internet purposefully more difficult to use" <---------------------

dude, im INCREDIBLY grateful that I was born with enough time for technology to become real easy to use, and its Fucking Incredible that I can find out just about anything I want with a few button pushes, But I try to take advantage of how easy it is by trying to do cool stuff with it. But Alot of people out there would just use the easy parts of the internet without giving the other infinite possibilities of awesomeness a chance, and I was just using how un-intuitive the internet used to be as an example of a hurdle people had to get over; and in jumping that hurdle you would also probably learn things about other aspects of the internet which would perhaps pique your interest in something else because of the experience. I would HATE to have to do That though.

My overall question (or at least what I was Trying to get across) was how can we get people to Want to educate themselves, when its so easy to get whatever you want? I mean, what if the Apocalypse happened tomorrow, Internet went down, cell service & electricity too, I would want those survivors to be at least a little resourceful, Hell I'd break down after not too long if the Internet died forever :/ Which means im still learning! (please christ don't take away my ability to watch the Endurance Run over and over)

@Morrow said:

@vikingdeath1: Why'd you refer to "dumb bimbos" surfing the net? The dumb people surfing the net (and infecting their PC's with viruses and trojans they get from all the porn sites) are men, while women, or "bimbos", as you call them, spend most of their internet time on either social networks or shopping. What's dumber? I'd say the porn.

Speaking as someone who fixes computers at my college's IT department, men and women are just as likely to have virus-infested computers. You assume way too much about this particular topic.

@vikingdeath1 said:

That innovation in usability is certainly a good thing, and I don't think that we should make the internet purposefully more difficult to use or anything (that's just silly) but I guess that's what I'm asking; anyone know what I'm talking about? I sure don't.

You seem to be saying that people should know more about this tool, the internet, that they're using, and should at least try to fix their own issues before coming to get help. To that I say most definitely! I think people in general don't know enough about computers, many of them (again, experienced a bit here) have never even installed a program or incessantly call the entire computer a "monitor" or the tower a "hard drive". These inaccuracies bug the hell out of me sometimes.

I think this is why i'm not a fan of hipsters.

When i was a kid, the most exciting day of the week was friday, because we would go get a video game from the video rental store. And i dont mean your Heavy Rains, or your Mass Effects. I got a 1mb floppy disk of crap like Secret Agent and it wasnt even full. Now i think you have gotten lazy.

Pfft. I was online before the internet was cool. I had two multi-node BBS's running Renegade and Wildcat! 4.0. You could play the super awesome Legend of the Red Dragon or 4 player Doom.

I wrote an article on the way back when days of the internet. You can find it at:

http://www.geocities.com/SilliconValley/iamneo6969/index.html

I hope you don't mind, the site's under construction! But, its proudly coded in notepad!

I'm glad you found alt.binaries.giantbomb.forum

E-hipster, but internet wasn't great back in the day. you had to use dial-up and then had to wait a few minutes for a webpage to load.

Anything the average person gets their hands on will be streamlined and simplified. The average person is now on the internet.

@Morrow said:

@vikingdeath1: Why'd you refer to "dumb bimbos" surfing the net? The dumb people surfing the net (and infecting their PC's with viruses and trojans they get from all the porn sites) are men, while women, or "bimbos", as you call them, spend most of their internet time on either social networks or shopping. What's dumber? I'd say the porn.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!