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What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 20 hours ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might've been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn't afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they've hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they've incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 26 points 17 hours ago

it still operates in the same way as it did back in the 90s

IT guy here, this is just not true.

Back in the 90s, HTTPS was released in 1994, I remember in the early 2000s that Internet Explorer would warn you that a page was using HTTPS, these days it just the opposite.

The internet has been encrypted, where is mostly ran in plaintext before.

Then we have the content on the internet.

We used to read webpages, mostly static HTML, these days the vast majority of websites is running a content engine, say Wordpress or other backend system that you push content onto. This is a gigantic shift, especially for private websites, sure many people used geocities, but many, many built their own webpage as HTML using a WYSIWYG editor, and just uploaded the file to a server.

Plenty also wrote their own HTML code and built the webpage like that.

These are just two examples of how the internet has massively changed since the 90d

[-] belit_deg@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Also the traffic is monopolized in platform silos

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I think both of you are right.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I agree with the three of you.

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