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“What goes around comes around,” shouldn’t be surprising.”
> Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.
I was there too, and realized that these sort of reductions in speed made one far more mindful of what one was doing
> Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform
This too is particularly debatable. Applications are thin wrappers around web browsers, there are constant annoyances (want to receive notifications for this webpage? Not now? We’ll ask you later.) I bet if I pulled someone from 2005 they’d look at a lot of things on a current website and see malware. And is it really more cross platform when we’ve achieved that by having less platforms?
It’s more of a reminder of that
not worth it
The insurmountable part of that project would be getting the guide data.
You don’t know what other people will want in the future
That is such a tiny minority I’ve never even heard of that until now
Wasn’t ‘the universe won’t end in a “big rip” the widely held idea?
I’ve heard ATC swap landing and takeoff directions in the space of 10 minutes because of weather