[9rx]

> what we miss about the old internet.

I expect the only thing we actually miss about it is that it opened up a new frontier to explore, with nobody really understanding what it could be, allowing us to geek out on trying all kinds of crazy ideas to see what might stick.

Nowadays we more or less have a good understanding of what the internet is. There is no doubt still room for a crazy idea here and there, but it isn't the every idea is crazy feeding frenzy that we found in the early days.

We don't really want the old internet back – it never went away. Instead, we are ready for the "next internet", whatever that may be.

[cosmicgadget]

You're saying we won't get the feeling back because it is no longer a frontier? I don't agree or disagree just curious.

[9rx]

Maybe. I don't know. I suppose if I knew I'd already know, and thus wouldn't gain anything from talking about it, and therefore wouldn't be here.

Perhaps a related question is: How do we bring back that old feeling cars used to give people? The old timers reminisce about them just like those here remember the internet, but these days they're just boring tools at best. So boring that the kids reaching driving age today are happy to not even go near them.

Or maybe there is no going back? Been there, done that, as they say.

[cosmicgadget]

That is crazy, when I was a kid a car meant I could go hang out with my friends. And, well, I played a lot of Gran Turismo.

[9rx]

That was my experience too, as we're seemingly of similar age. Before that we saw the muscle and chrome eras, where people really got into them and made cars their identity and centre of life. It would appear cars saw very much a similar decline to the internet feeling we're talking about as the generations went by. The are still useful tools, to be sure, but now hard to fall in love with.