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1. lambic+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 18:47:18
What are 200X and 201X internets?
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2. zls+y1[view] [source] 2023-07-26 18:53:18
>>lambic+(OP)
decades :)

If we had known how fleeting the glory of the early 2010s internet would be, with everything ad-free and seo still comparatively rudimentary, would that have made it easier or harder to watch it die?

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3. bee_ri+4b[view] [source] 2023-07-26 19:30:11
>>lambic+(OP)
As the other comment said, the decades. I could have used 2010’s I guess, it is just hard to refer to the first decade of the millennium that way.
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4. nfw2+RG[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 21:44:25
>>zls+y1
Everything was free because interest rates were nothing, and every startup could use investor capital to cover their costs
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5. lambic+5Y2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-27 14:37:29
>>nfw2+RG
And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.
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