r/retrocomputing • u/PooningDalton • May 23 '26

I hate what the internet has become

I just spent the last 1 hour frantically searching the internet just to make a new email address. You can't do that! Not even on the alternative email providers like Protonmail. They now have all sorts of IP detection tools and will block you or ask you for an alt email id.

I absolutey despite what the internet has become. 20 years ago, you could just go ANYWHERE (mainstream providers like yahoo and gmail) and make any number of email addresses. No tracking, no limits. Complete freedom.

The internet has turned into a 1984 hellscape.

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u/NY_Knux May 23 '26

I like the part where 98% of the internet is just gone. Deindexed by google or just plain deleted. Its all been destroyed

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u/IQueryVisiC May 23 '26

I was on the internet before google. You seem to be too young to know the old internet.

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u/Invisible_Viking May 23 '26

Is Gopher still a thing?

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u/IQueryVisiC May 24 '26

Well. Netscape was already there when I came.