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I remember the very first day that i sat front of an i386 computer that running windows 95, dial some phone number, enter username and password and connect to altavista which was home page of netscape browser for a long time.
The first website i visit was promotional material of space jam
movie, surprisingly it's still online today. Spent days and weeks to find a website in my native language at that time and found only a local tv channel's live program guide. Merely a teletext page but i was able to read it without holding a dictionary.
Then i discovered the IRC. Connect to server, randomly pick someone and say hi, if they say hi back you can chat about anything for hours. It's like a scene from matrix. Those things evolved into blogs, social media, youtube and so on. With the rise of WEB 2.0 users was able to find social events, meet with people, find a job, book a hotel, date with someone or simply just get laid. The things was easy because use of computers require a level of intelligence and a considerable amount of wealth to afford it's hardware. That situation acts as some sort of social filter. If you booked a hotel room online, you skip few steps on check-in. If you met lady online, you directly proceed to dinner.
It's an old neighborhood
While living my single professional days moved between two neighborhoods. First one was a cheap district, a constant horn noise, a mixed smell consist of trash, flesh, food, urine you name it. Unable to get a 8h straight sleep also you have to drive 20 minutes to access proper food. When you say hello to someone everyone turns their face or just look to ground. You're literally alone along with other people.
Moved to another neighborhood. 20th floor, streets are super clean, completely silent after sunset and got full of green scenery. Every time i visit a shop people was opening conversation, talking for minutes, easy to buy things without hesitation and also super easy to sell things.
Same logic applies to here, if you able to afford that house in this neighborhood, it automatically skips few pre-checks on human interactions.
So, internet is not dead. Just become an ugly ghetto which anyone can trespass, which eliminates it's luxury sense of the early years. You can't simply just say hi to someone, even if you did there is a possibility that your kidneys get stolen.
Where all those people go? they divided into small private communities that gates located in the real world. You met with guy at the event, he invites you to his telegram group. Maybe that's how people deal with that new trash pile so called internet. Full of bot generated content, fake photos that doesn't exists, the way to do things reduced to 5yr old child level. Even search engines are not useful anymore, you have to scroll at least 3 pages to find something close to what you looking for. Even more robots reading this entry than actual humans for their training purposes.