> but it had an innocence for a while. or maybe we were just all young and naive.uziq wrote:
google and the tech giants used to do goofy shit for april fools. it was when the internet still had a bit of a vibe of being ran by a bunch of dorks. of course, that whole 'don't do evil' era of google now just looks as cynical as any other slick ad campaign or soulless corporate jargon ... but it had an innocence for a while. or maybe we were just all young and naive.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
april fools used to not be a huge deal, even on the internet. a website might have changed to comic sans or some obnoxious color scheme, or an mmo might have joke patchnotes or implement a feature that would elicit a chuckle or two. now, it's a holiday for fake news and winking corporate social media accounts.
isn't musk complaining about being cyberbullied these days? quite the 180 from clownishly supervillainous "empathy is weakness."
the internet felt so qualitatively different even 10 years ago that it blows my mind.
Prolly a bit of both.


