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Weren't there a previous Tell HN about this very same topic ?

I'm older than you. I spend half my time trying to explain what is this feeling. It's so ironic that every golden age is killed by itself in a way. We're all pushing for 'better' until we realize that it was just as neat as it should before.

Maybe it's just relativism from psychology, call this general roots. At periods of your time you imprint signals. Minute details that will always make you feel at home. Whenever I run win95, winxp, linux 2.4 I feel so chill. Even though on paper, linux 4 / systemd have 320 extremely valuable features... still there's a 'better' effect. The other day I registered on a phpbb website .. felt cool. No php7 generators or DI based modules .. but I couldn't care less.

It's probably not all nostalgia, you can really tell how internet became a social business from a fun on the side, everyside is monetized, full of warnings, hyper complex. And very rarely so for the benefits of the user, mostly to avoid harm from stupid businesses.

Thank god IRC (and others) are still the same.



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