My normie mom sent my techie dad an email in 1982 announcing that she was pregnant.
Normies have always been on the internet.
The pattern I see, over and over again, is that “Things really started going downhill right after I graduated high school / college and stopped having enough free time to fuck around, but not enough interest in global news / national politics to be inundated with The Existential Horror.”
And if you grab names out of a bag, you’ll find people from every generation insisting the Olds Ruined Everything For Me and The Youngs Can’t Do Anything Right. Somehow, they’re always living in the sweet spot of history.
Smartphones killed the internet. Normies should have never been allowed access to the internet
I think when everything started to be called “apps” was the fall.
I think when social media gets more popular, everything went downhill.
I think that was around the same time, a lot of things went to shit before we noticed.
You’re right.
soon as anything is popular enough for marketers to move in, it’s soul dies
Agreed. No one even uses the word program now which I find weird.
so windows they’re executables. what are they on linux? i am learnding
Appimage?
They used to all just be “programs”.
My normie mom sent my techie dad an email in 1982 announcing that she was pregnant.
Normies have always been on the internet.
The pattern I see, over and over again, is that “Things really started going downhill right after I graduated high school / college and stopped having enough free time to fuck around, but not enough interest in global news / national politics to be inundated with The Existential Horror.”
And if you grab names out of a bag, you’ll find people from every generation insisting the Olds Ruined Everything For Me and The Youngs Can’t Do Anything Right. Somehow, they’re always living in the sweet spot of history.
Your mom sending an email in 1984 is not normie behaviour
Using a computer isn’t that hard. Sending an email isn’t that hard.
No, but normal people didn’t own a computer then really haha