![]() ![]() You can use IRCCloud (and be told it makes you a bad IRC'er), you can play MUDs on your phone, etc. You can still play MUDs, you can still visit BBSes, people still run Hotline servers! Many of these communities have changed because the world has changed: lots of people who played MUDs in 1990 have moved on to other online games, but lots have not! Critically - tools have continued to be developed. I put "old" in quotes because people have kept and maintained the parts they love. They showed up for social media and most of them just aren't that interested in the things that made up the "old" internet. The thing that has changed is that a huge swath of new people have come online and, though some of what brought them online is wider access to connectivity, a lot of what brought them online are new kinds of communities. Particular communities come and go, as they always have, but I have found that the I can find the same sorts of gathering places for the same kinds of people I always have - in about the same numbers too. ![]() I have never understood people who mourn the death of the "old" internet because I do not feel I have lost it. ![]()
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