Tech journalists on Mastodon: "Mastodon Inc only has 50,000 users, but with adequate venture capital funding it may stand a chance"
More tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon is currently a free service, but soon it will bend to the iron will of Silicon Valley, which is that you either sell out to investors or become irrelevant like Wikipedia."
Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
It's almost as if tech journalists do the bare minimum of research before moving on to the next topic. Or that the tech industry has become so focused on chasing giant piles of money that nobody can remember a time when true successes on the internet were achieved by hobbyists working on passion projects with no regard for how much money they might make
@nolan
Do tech journalists remember 90's internet?
@nolan Was 90's kid, can confirm this.
Yahooligans was the search engine used at my elementary school, because I guess our school had money for a children's computer lab.
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Math Blasters
@Phaerris I also really loved playing the board and card games on Yahoo. I was *sick* at Hearts.
@Phaerris Oh man, I love that it's covered in Nickelodeon green slime, because that's what kids loved in the 90s