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by ferros 1836 days ago
In 20 years somebody will write an article about missing this ‘old’ internet from 2021.

I wonder what they will miss.

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> I wonder what they will miss.

Being able to log in without providing you national ID number. And being able to run a public-facing server without a permit.

Unregulated encryption will be out in the next decade, it's too powerful for us plebes to have. Things will be safer when only the paragons of infosec like big corporations and banks get to use it freely.
In India they already miss this.
Memes, Discord, the “old” Twitter, and either having ad supported sites (as opposed to everything being paid) or having premium sites (as opposed to everything being as supported.
they will miss not having to use a browsing agent that logs everything you do to your identity/passport and sends it out to the government to keep you in check
Memes won’t go away. Nor will ads.
Memes will be killed by some entrepreneuring copyright troll at some point.

In many jurisdictions, memes would either break the copyright laws or at least be in the grey zone. It's only a matter of time before someone exploits this. After one case, the platforms will ban them to avoid the risk of getting sued themselves. The same will probably happen for gaming videos.

Really. All right, I'm looking forward to the author of dickbutt stepping up and claiming what's theirs.
The author of the dickbutt (if he/she can be found) might easily sell the rights to their creation to a copyright troll for one million dollars after which my scenario could take place.
You see, if they had the rights, we'd know who it is. You reserve your rights through registration. If we don't know, then there's no way to prove you have the rights.
Web pages under 100MB
I like your optimism in thinking it will take full two decades for people to miss sub-100MB pages. :)
AI-enhanced web pages. Sorry, SPAS.
you said pages
Anonymity.
I don’t see that anyone could have predicted the change of the past 20 years so it’s silly to think we can even guess at the next 20
Less-invasive advertisements.
They might, but the piece will be less credible.

Or - Fagoomazon might censor it.