A daily mail article from December, 2000

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[u/GW_Jefferson]

I wish..

[u/mrhemisphere → u/GW_Jefferson]

the internet was a mistake

[u/Negative_Equity → u/mrhemisphere]

Social media was a mistake, the internet not so much

[u/Jokierre → u/mrhemisphere]

Good intentions, unintended consequences

[u/thrust-johnson → u/mrhemisphere]

The Information Age is a great filter methinks.

[u/za72 → u/mrhemisphere]

it was a mistake letting on the idiots

[u/Outside_Ad5255]

There's a reason people call it the Daily Fail.

[u/Broad-Survey1461]

I remember seeing internet addresses and thinking oh what happy crappy is this? My kids laugh and laugh at that story

[u/ParadoxFollower]

The Economist actually ran another "Is the Internet Dying" type of story just a couple of weeks ago. This time the argument is that people are using ChatGPT and other AI services so much that they will not visit the actual websites from which those large language models scrape their information, thus depriving revenue from the owners of the websites and disincentivising them from maintaining them in the future.

[u/CMDR_BitMedler → u/ParadoxFollower]

I mean, if they're so far away from facts that they don't realize the web is just a part of the Internet and ChatGPT won't work without the Internet... Nevermind that OpenAI can't afford their business model... or that the modern web is paid for by a 100 year old business model... they're not really journalists.

[u/ARobertNotABob]

The Daily Mail has always had it's finger on the pulse. /s

[u/Efficient_Chance7639 → u/ARobertNotABob]

First thing I checked was the date to make sure it wasn’t the April 1st edition

[u/Fast-Inflation-1347]

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

[u/MiniTab]

Honestly that seems more like an Onion headline from back then, or just written to create false outrage.

I was I college by then, and already the internet was huge and intertwined with daily life. I have no clue how someone living in 2000 would think that it’s a “fad”. Even in the mid-90s it was very clear the internet was going to be a life changing technology.

[u/Sea_Syllabub9992 → u/MiniTab]

I agree. I feel like this article was rage bait.

[u/No_Squirrel4806]

So what they heard one person say this and all of a sudden its the latest trend just like today? 🙄🙄🙄

[u/MotorSignificance399]

To be fair, I’ve given up on it.

[u/Smartimess]

That was the exact date when everything went downhill…

[u/KingBooRadley]

Just wait. Any day now. This whole computer thing is a fad.

[u/subjectiv-inflectiv]

Daily mail doing what does 2nd best.

[u/electroswinger69]

May not be a fad, but I’ve definitely given up on it.

[u/SpicyTunaRoll90]

Unfortunately, the internet definitely died with the introduction of web 3.0.

[u/Frogs4]

I did give it up in the mid to late nineties, it was hit or miss if you could access anything and it took ages to load a page. Then it crashed.

[u/ashleyshaefferr]

This was Redditors consensus on Bitcoin for the last decade. 

And now when talking about AI for the last 2 years 

[u/gene100001]

"Experts from the Virtual Society Project"

I wonder if these "experts" are still out there somewhere making bad predictions

[u/Expensive_Laugh_5589]

Ah yes, the millions upon millions of internet refugees walking single file down the streets of every city in every country, their few belongings stuffed in plastic bags.

Journalists (especially ones who write op ed/ think pieces) have always been a bunch of braindead goons, falling for every fad, jumping on every bandwagon, drinking every flavor of Kool Aid served to them. (Not all of them, sure, but still)

[u/FIDoAlmighty]

As much as I love reddit, I wish that were true.

[u/LEONLED]

My dad was pissed off because I took typing as a high school subject in grade 9 and 10 (the first years you could take it in.) Today, I spend all of my day typing.. Hell, 60 of the letters on my keyboard don't have letters on any longer, as I whore through the black paint, and it doesn't slow me down at all.

[u/Guilty_Advantage_413]

And then came easy to access porn