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@Jasonxbr
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 am
There is no going back to what was unfortunately, internet, elections, time itself. 😢😢😢😢😢😢 best thing is either log off and live analog or check out permanently 🤔
@spambunny123
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 pm
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@Notblaze30
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 am
Brainrot content consumerss>>>>>>>>>>
@allakario7289
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 am
the best thing to start with is stopping the notifications and you will thank me later…. and as i said to start with so next step is to not activate the mobile network while going outside and you will feel better.. sepaks out of experience.😊😊
@ThePsykool8
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 am
By 2008 the golden days of the internet where long over. Now we have people solely created by social media and the internet.
@mugzwood
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 am
“By 2008 the golden days of the internet where long over.” Came here to say this.
Would you like me to help you shape it into a full short paragraph or tweet-style piece (e.g. nostalgic, ironic, poetic, etc.)?
@studioghibl
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 pm
@mugzwood i think you forgot to edit out that last part!
@niccolom
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 pm
How was 2008 golden?
The golden days were before 2000.
@Deep1.Relationship1
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 am
Awesome
@csantos2
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 pm
It is wild to think of 2008 as the early internet. In the context he is referring to – a social space to connect with people – the early internet would be the mid to late 90s with early AOL. It’s a total reflection of the perspective he has at his age. This is the early internet FOR HIM as in when he was really first exposed to it in a meaningful way. And that’s totally reasonable for a speaker at a TEDx youth event. If he wants to translate this message to a broader audience he would benefit from framing it as the internet during its time as a pre-algorithmic global social space.
@npsimons
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 pm
I haven’t watched the video yet, but having been someone whose formative years were online (mid to late 1990’s), I can say I agree with his overall message, and with yours in particular.
I *was* magical back then – you could stumble upon wildly amazing things, the sorts of things one very, *very* rarely see these days. Too much capitalism, pushing algorithms to work against our best interests (even algorithms could have been useful, if they were tuned with users in mind first, and not to sell things).
@AmblinAlong
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Mid 90s internet was ONLY for rich people, it was not widespread.
@AmblinAlong
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 pm
@npsimons The only people I knew who were online in the mid 90s were kids with incredibly rich parents.
@npsimons
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 pm
@AmblinAlong Your experience is not representative, aka it’s anecdotal. I can easily counter with my own anecdote: my single father, solidly in middle class territory, was able to prioritize it for me, all while paying alimony. On top of which, I worked a job to buy parts for my PC and pay for dialup access.
@MDTALKIES
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Amazing video sir 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@LordAugastus
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Do it whilst it lasts, the corporate behemoths are gunning to kill the old free Web as they replace it with the Web 3.0, policed, controlled Web. And everything that made the internet great, the freedom, the accessibility, is gone and not indexed by the corporate Web, and that’s now dark Web and they are making dark Web seem like bad evil Web. ,
@JJColb
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Oh dear. I can’t sit through this. Toodles.
@c01non
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 pm
you’re not missing a bit. tl;;dr i wish i was a tween again, aren’t we all. nope.
@VintageBassArchive
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 pm
funbrain and Poptropica
@supermanggggg
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Click bait – 2008 isn’t even close to what people experienced in the 90s. The internet was amazing in the 1990s.
@JessieCarty
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 am
1000000%
@c01non
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 pm
ugh i miss times where TED was… well, NOT THIS whatever that is. no thank u
@ExistentialWolf
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Oh wow … “the joy of the early internet”… hmm. WTF could you mean. The facsimile machine noises, the watching the pixel progression of downloads, reprograming your computer to unpack and run a download… oh you mean the endless threads of useless info that sometimes turns into jumbled characters. The best part of networks with computers was like exercise … you get home exhausted from skateboarding blaze a blunt and just stare at the scrolling past until you pass out and go to school the next day. I think AOL had a few more furnished portals and color games. The internet really took off with sharing software like Napster, Youtube, and Facebook.
@garcipat
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Advertising ruines the internet. there is no way back. deal with it.
@AnnieB-v8j
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 pm
No.
@steffensegoviahelbo5065
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 pm
Wow that is mainly true to listen too but it also hurts sooo much to hear people actually think of 2008 as early internet…
We have to take back the internet from the big biz but it was a issue that even existed back then in 2008 it is just much more exacerbateed today.
If we should think of internets early days we should start by learning history and then we would know early vs 2008 vs now.. internet have evolved many times in that time span. From the first military use to Universities to the first public Internet to the more evolved one that existed in 2008 to todays internet ..
@kOaMaster2
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 pm
That’s neither a great talk nor a great presenter – and with a questionable claim (“early internet” – LOL)
@AnkaraMeehssi
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 pm
gaf
@TCraats
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 pm
Lovely talk! This sentiment is starting to appear more and more, and I’m happy it does. We should try to toss off as much of the corporate overlording of the internet as possible.
@niccolom
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 pm
How is 2008 “early internet”?
This kid needs to expect that, by 2050, the kids at that time will call 2025 “early internet.”
Geez.
@ShalomMalatokoba
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 am
i wasn’t even born in 2008. my “early internet” is 2018, but now im wishing i knew what the 90s was like from all the comments
@niccolom
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 pm
6:50
You’re describing echo chambers. Yes, those were great times when people with opposite opinions don’t really see each other’s posts.
8:25
Talking to your friends is also a kind of echo chamber. You wouldn’t be friends with people who don’t agree with you, right?
Finally, your voice fry is quite annoying.
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@Brian.S
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 pm
2008? Early internet? Sweet summer child…
@purrffi
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 am
Oh god please don’t encourage teens to talk to some stranger online specifically develop a relationship with strangers online, that’s how disgusting pdfiles get their fix….
@lifemotivation6789
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 am
Funny how the first heartbreak often comes from someone we never actually met. The internet gave us connections that felt real, even when everything else was pixelated. Childhood crushes hit different — innocent, awkward, and unforgettable.