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What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

2006-2012 - Torrenting was king and you could easily get anything you wanted.

Now you need to set up a VPN and hope you can trust it then find good torrent sites that are more hidden.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Agreed, that was the era of decentralization, when people could still have their own niche websites, instead of everything being run by a small handful of corporations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I do miss the era when torrenting was just something people did. The amount corporations did to curtail it really messed up the internet in my opinion. Getting cease and desist letter or getting the protocol blocked on me because I was sharing public domain books and Linux distros was so how I knew they were just swinging at anyone near piracy without any regard.