• What if ?...

    From David Mcfox to All on Tue Jul 1 16:49:44 2025
    Hello Lady's and Gentlemen!
    long time no see ya'll,i was busy all this time,and ill right now,but whatever.I just wanted to share my thoughts about the "The theory of the dead internet"
    I hope no need to remind you abot this,so let me tell my thought.
    What if all people after a long period of time,just leave the internet?
    What they will gonna do? where they go? what gonna happen ti the Internet that we know right now?
    All of those thoughts appear in my head,cuz i think that soon,we gonna live insome sort of cyberpunk.
    Gonna wait for you'r answers fellas!
    Peace
    - Fox?S
  • From Mike Powell to DAVID MCFOX on Wed Jul 2 09:31:00 2025
    Hello Lady's and Gentlemen!
    long time no see ya'll,i was busy all this time,and ill right now,but whatever.I just wanted to share my thoughts about the "The theory of the dead internet"
    I hope no need to remind you abot this,so let me tell my thought.
    What if all people after a long period of time,just leave the internet?

    In some ways, I think they already have left. When the internet opened to the public, for a while a lot of "users" had websites and blogs that they maintained. With the rise of social media, a lot of the "netizens"
    moved away from maintaining their own sites to posting their thoughts and
    other content on the social media sites.

    That left a lot of unmaintained ("dead") personal web pages.

    Later came the bot activity. Because people were centralized on easy to manipulate social media sites, this was probably predictable.

    What they will gonna do? where they go? what gonna happen ti the Internet that
    we know right now?

    I think we may already be seeing some of this. There are some long-time
    BBS users who are often on the networks complaining about "social media burnout" and wanting to reduce their social media footprint. In recent
    years, it seems like a lot of my high school and college friends have either disappeared from social media, or have really backed off on posting much.

    A few have gone back to trying to resurrect parts of the old Internet that
    they remember, like personal web pages, RSS feeds, gopher holes, etc.

    I suspect a lot of people would do what they did before social media...
    spend more time outdoors, socializing in person, etc. Not really sure what
    the generation(s) that have grown up with social media would do. I feel
    like they don't have as much to fall back on and may (falsely) link the
    death of the internet/social media to some collapse of society as a whole.

    Most people don't like interacting with bots, which will push a lot of
    folks elsewhere.

    All of those thoughts appear in my head,cuz i think that soon,we gonna live insome sort of cyberpunk.
    Gonna wait for you'r answers fellas!
    Peace

    I guess that could be where the younger people, who don't know life without social media, might (d)evolve to. I suspect the rest of us will have it
    better off.

    Mike


    * SLMR 2.1a * Be more specific. How many cards AM I playing with?
  • From Rob Mccart to DAVID MCFOX on Thu Jul 3 00:36:00 2025
    >Hello Lady's and Gentlemen!
    >long time no see ya'll,i was busy all this time,and ill right now,but whateve
    > just wanted to share my thoughts about the "The theory of the dead internet"
    >I hope no need to remind you abot this,so let me tell my thought.
    >What if all people after a long period of time,just leave the internet?
    >What they will gonna do? where they go? what gonna happen ti the Internet tha
    >we know right now?
    >All of those thoughts appear in my head,cuz i think that soon,we gonna live
    >ome sort of cyberpunk.
    >Gonna wait for you'r answers fellas!

    I think when it comes to communication we never go backwards, it stays
    until it is replaced by something faster/better/easier.

    Many years ago personal visits were somewhat replaced by mail, and
    then mail later mostly replaced by phone, and then came eMails and
    Texting and social media - the only socializing that a lot of people do.

    So don't think about it going away.. Think about what comes next.. B)

    ---
    ■ SLMR Rob ■ You just lay right there while I reload...
  • From Ed Vance to David Mcfox on Sat Jul 5 17:14:49 2025

    David,
    Before getting this cellphone 18 Months ago I didn't have internet access for almost 2 years.

    The DSL service began having problems so I called Support.
    The technician suggested that I cancel DSL and order Fiber Internet service.
    I did that but after getting the Router I never saw a webpage open so I cancwlled that service and sent their Router back.

    Some months later I talked to someone in the Support department and was told they would send a technician to my home if I signed up for Fiber Internet again.
    When the Router came in the mail I called Support.

    The tech couldn't get a website to show up on my XP system so I cancelled that service and sent their Router to them.

    Two years without internet service but I didn't get the DT's for not being able to do the rthe things I could do back when I had DSL.
    Ed