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- Hacker News
- Offline is a shared experience.by myst
- Without a shared experience, it’s direct mail on steroids.by dotcoma
- The Internet used to be like that.
Once, there were approximately three TV stations.
by brudgers - Interestingly, there is a famous ancient Chinese poem with the line, “May we both live long and share the beauty of the moon, though a thousand miles apart,” which is very similar to what you said.by wkmcyz
- If you want somebody else to decide what should be streamed straight into your brain, then just turn on the TV or the radio. That's exactly what you're looking for, and what billions of people prefer over social media feeds.by carlosjobim
- Tell her to read HN.
PS: Was there ever a front page of Instagram? Sounds weird!
by dalmo3 - > The Internet used to be like that.
Not really... Even back in the Web 1.0 days people didn't visit the same websites unless they had the same interests. And even today this exists – I'm seeing the same HN homepage for example, and this is true of most sites.
I think what you're describing was much more of a thing in the 80s and 90s with TV. People genuinely would tune into the same programs as each other every night and have these collective cultural experiences which don't quite exist in the same way they used to.
I don't miss it personally, but I suspect us losing that has led to some of our cultural divides in recent years.
I'm not the global shared experiences you're describing really ever existed.
by kypro - Funny enough, just this morning someone started telling me about a video they say on YouTube about tracing all the power lines in Red Dead Redemption 2, and I had also seen the video and was able to know exactly what he was talking about and discus it.
I find people I have stuff in common with will also get a similar feed. I sent something to a co-worker last week, and he said he had just sent the same thing to another one of our co-workers and hour earlier.
There was a period of time where this happened so often it became a bit boring. Reddit about 15 years ago. Everyone has already seen everything we tried to bring up to talk about, so there wasn’t much to say. It was a lot of, “did you see…”, “yep”, “oh… what about…”, “yep”.
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