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The Metaverse could've been a platform free of AI, offering a protected version of the Internet for people to be themselves. It's kinda where we may be headed anyway. Instead we got this...
Facebook was always destined to be shit.
What we need is Tom to come back and just boot up the only MySpace servers and we can do a hard reset to the part 20 years or so.
Fuck MySpace. Let's go back to webrings.
Dialup BBS
Don't go that far. Do you know how long it takes to download porn at 2400 baud?
Guess you’re stuck reading erotic stories.
Probably where I got my penchant for them.
You ever see an old one and just think, I look at this in 1993…
The metaverse predates Facebook's interest in it.
Lol, lmao even
Sorry but that is a very misinformed idea of what Metaverse was, and was supposed to be
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I mean, you can chill in VRChat if you want.
You mean Second Life?
Niw there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. Is it still actually going?
No idea. I don't think I've logged in in over 10 years, if not more.
Or Resonite even.