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Crazier to go from radio only to movies, or from TV and no internet to today?

Which is the objectively crazier progression to see in one l...
Sapphire potus
  06/26/26
I don't think it was the internet itself that caused things ...
Painfully honest stage
  06/26/26
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coiffed church
  06/27/26
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sable cracking crackhouse liquid oxygen
  06/27/26
"Social media" got reconned onto everything. Like ...
Exciting goal in life
  06/27/26
bad take on the last part. early internet was extremely egal...
Painfully honest stage
  06/27/26
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Honey-headed Contagious Sex Offender Pistol
  06/27/26
This is like saying TV didn't cause people to switch from ra...
gunneratttt
  06/28/26
TV to internet is a way, way bigger change than radio to TV....
Tan Background Story Idiot
  06/27/26
It's the interactive aspect of the internet that makes it no...
Honey-headed Contagious Sex Offender Pistol
  06/27/26
The telegraph was probably the most fundamental shock compar...
Indecent appetizing field son of senegal
  06/27/26
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coiffed church
  06/27/26
Which gave me unlimited access to every genre of porn for fr...
Aquamarine Apoplectic People Who Are Hurt
  06/27/26
It's still just looking at a screen
Sapphire potus
  06/27/26
The transition from radio to TV is pretty obviously the bigg...
controlling a virtual character on a computer
  06/27/26
I agree with you but the vast majority of people itt can't e...
Sapphire potus
  06/27/26
Seems like we're in agreement. TVs were the first Screens. P...
controlling a virtual character on a computer
  06/27/26
the first Screens tp
coiffed church
  06/28/26


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Date: June 26th, 2026 11:37 PM
Author: Sapphire potus

Which is the objectively crazier progression to see in one lifetime? Personally I don't think internet is a huge deal vs TV only days. People were already looking at screens all day without the internet.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965036)



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Date: June 26th, 2026 11:40 PM
Author: Painfully honest stage

I don't think it was the internet itself that caused things to change significantly... I think at first it was just a cool way to find info and connect with randos... but once you bring in social media + having the internet in our pockets all day, that makes it a more dramatic shift than radio to movies/TV

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965039)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 12:41 AM
Author: coiffed church



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965096)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: sable cracking crackhouse liquid oxygen



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965599)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:34 PM
Author: Exciting goal in life

"Social media" got reconned onto everything. Like people would consider xo a "social media site." Also some of these prole redditors call reddit an "app."

Like me using myspace or facebook in 2005 is the Same Thing as this other shit or geocities to me. I call the 2010s shift that occured, "proles/Women using the internet," imo, and not, "Social Media."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965606)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: Painfully honest stage

bad take on the last part. early internet was extremely egalitarian. shit like nerdy listservs, IRC, geocities, livejournal, and Forums were enjoyed by Men, Women, and proles alike. it was more that the demographics shifted to kids and that the nature of the sites became completely different (and toxic as hell imo).

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965791)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: Honey-headed Contagious Sex Offender Pistol



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965786)



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Date: June 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: gunneratttt

This is like saying TV didn't cause people to switch from radio but all the content on TV.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49967041)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:40 PM
Author: Tan Background Story Idiot

TV to internet is a way, way bigger change than radio to TV.

TV is pretty much just radio with visuals. Both are linear, non-interactive mediums for broadcasting entertainment and information. TV is a bigger time suck, but it's not that different, not in comparison to how completely different the internet is.

The internet is different in kind. It's interactive. It's global. You can be the star of the show. You can silo into whatever little corner of the internet (or web 1.0 chatbort) you want to.

Think of this hypothetical: how different is a society with radio from one with radio and TV? Now think of the difference adding the internet to the mix makes.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965611)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: Honey-headed Contagious Sex Offender Pistol

It's the interactive aspect of the internet that makes it not even close.

A better q would be going from tv/movies to the internet vs. going from the internet to AI. I think the latter is more significant of a change by a country mile.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965789)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 1:41 PM
Author: Indecent appetizing field son of senegal

The telegraph was probably the most fundamental shock compared to what existed before.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965616)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: coiffed church



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Date: June 27th, 2026 2:58 PM
Author: Aquamarine Apoplectic People Who Are Hurt

Which gave me unlimited access to every genre of porn for free in my house at all times? That one.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965780)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 4:13 PM
Author: Sapphire potus

It's still just looking at a screen

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965932)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 4:37 PM
Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer

The transition from radio to TV is pretty obviously the bigger change because we can directly observe just how badly TV psychologically dominated and raped boomers

The internet has had big effects on millennials and zoomers but still not as significant as the complete and utter rape that TV inflicted on boomers. Even after being given *an entire lifetime* to adjust, boomers - to this day - are *still* 100% totally mind controlled by whatever the TV tells them

I don't think anything in history before or after will ever come close to how much TV raped boomers. Even AI

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965954)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: Sapphire potus

I agree with you but the vast majority of people itt can't even imagine a world without screens

The more tangible difference is how people behaved and looked in public. Before screens no adult would leave the house without putting on their best outfit and playing their best self in public. After TV everyone's standards went to shit and people started going outside in pajamas and acting like apes

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965957)



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Date: June 27th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer

Seems like we're in agreement. TVs were the first Screens. Pre-television theaters didn't really count. It was more like going to watch live entertainment. What's the meaningful difference between going to the movies in the 1940s and going to watch a live performance in the 1940s? Not much

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49965960)



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Date: June 28th, 2026 12:29 PM
Author: coiffed church

the first Screens tp

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5877718&forum_id=2#49967033)