If you could freeze technological progress at any point in history, like just stopping it there permanently, what year/era would you choose?

>>507893558 (OP)
2006

the problem isn't technology but the commodification of everything
it all got worse after 2008

>>507893558 (OP)
2008

>>507893558 (OP)
>picrel
stop using smartphones then. people always say things like this but don't make any changes in their lives

>>507893558 (OP)
Pre 2001 internet was best. You still had to be somewhat intelligent to use a computer and it was rare to encounter 3rd world browns. Indians weren’t even online back then.

>>507893558 (OP)
Technology is good overall but people need to stop thinking that ChatGPT is an actual person of sentience. That is jumping the shark.

>>507893977
>out of Jimmys Head
God i remember that show it fucking sucked and the fact they recasted his best friend and crush from asians to black kids...is this what radicalized me?

>>507893992
This. Ten billion subscriptions so the line goes up while adult daycare cornballs talk about maximizing user experience in a glass dildo

>>507893977
>CHUD.com in the bottom left
kek

>>507893558 (OP)
I had either this same setup or something very close to it. Needs the box of Encarta on the shelf.

>>507893977
this is the year 4chan turned to shit too.

We're going through the next stage of tech now. The only thing that changed was screens got smaller and visible.

>>507893977
hmm 2007 tentative, 2016 definitive

>>507893977
>Games for Windows LIVE
the horror... the horror

>>507893558 (OP)
that's a nice setup
I got close to that one at some point

>>507894861
now even gamefaqs is full of hindoooans
even onions are full of them giving professional advice to each saaather

there is no escape now but to create a closed shell

>>507893558 (OP)

Just log off, dummy.

I'm betting on Moores law winning in the end

>>507893558 (OP)
iphone

>>507893977
Why does it feel like more happened/changed in 8 years 07-15 then has happened int the last 10?

>>507893558 (OP)
>commodore 64
>ti-99
i loved raid over moscow and parsec so much

>>507893558 (OP)
As soon as it was given to shitskin

>>507896863

>>507893558 (OP)
When normies were given access to the internet. People began to become more interested in curating their digital personas than their actual lives.

>>507897655
implication?

Take me back

>>507893558 (OP)
What a low IQ, childish thought experiment. I'mma put this in my cringe folder. Yes, let's just start revering stagnation and compliance, because you retards couldn't evolve with the times and let the kikes take you for a ride.

>>507893558 (OP)
When boats allowed jews to enter America

>>507894842
Or just exercise some damn self-control, but that seems impossible for a lot of people. I have a current gen flagship smartphone but I don't spend my whole life glued to it, I just use it for taking pictures, GPS when I'm in an unfamiliar area, googling shit when I need info on something, etc. It really freaks me out how compulsive people are about pulling their phones out and doomscrolling social media whenever there's the slightest lull, even my late 70s boomer parents do it.

>>507896863
>now even gamefaqs is full of hindoooans
jesus really? i haven't used that site in a decade but it was pretty good

>>507897102
>log off internet
>kiwifsrms has already doxxed your family l
>fired from job
>friends and family being harassed
Glowniggers allow this behvaior

>>507893977
2005 since the smartphone came out in 2006 iirc.

>>507893558 (OP)
1998 for sure

>>507893558 (OP)
Just before the invention of the smartphone and social media

>>507894842
>stop using smartphones then. people always say things like this but don't make any changes in their lives
I basically don't but I still have to deal with a system that expects you to. WHAT THE FUCK IS AN APP, BITCH

>>507893558 (OP)
never, give me ai assisted biological immortality

>>507893977
The year magic black rectangles came out

>>507893558 (OP)
As soon as women started using the Internet the world went to shit.

>>507898144
what I can think of getting around this flood is to use some proxy like oldnet

>>507893977
As much as I agree that 2007 was shit, at least the moeshit of that era was made for otaku and therefore infinitely better than the endless normalfag shounen slop that's completely taken anime over in the last decade.

>>507893977
Fpbp

The Amish probably nailed it. The problem is the world will overtake them and they won't be long for the world unless they adapt.

We should probably limit technology that has a degenerative effect like narcotics and to an extent videogames, porn and movies, especially when it is controlled by nefarious states and corporations.

>>507893558 (OP)
there is literally nothing stopping you from leaving your smartphone at home or just not paying for one at all.

>social ostracism
that's just the price you pay for freedom.

>>507893558 (OP)
Medieval era, I think that's the greatest technological era, if you measure individual human quality of life.

Now the industrial revolution increased the amount of human lives exponentially, so there are more "high quality" lives being lived currently, but in the medieval era the "quality lives" were a much higher percentage of all human lives.

>>507893558 (OP)
All media is propaganda and will be weaponized.

>>507894842
>how does the general health of society affect you personally?

>>507899189
>unless they adapt.
They have. Most Amish have trucks, computers, phones, power tools, generators or solar to run them, etc. They just only use them for work and other practical purposes and avoid modern tech in their households and leisure time. I think there are still some fundamentalist communities that avoid them but they're the minority. (Also, no, I'm not talking about Mennonites.)

>>507898698
Were you online in the late 90s? Because I was, and there were just as many chicks on forums and in chatrooms as there were guys.

Around 1850-1860. I wanna see how the world would progress if plastics were never invented. Since the cyberpunk dystopia has turned out so fucking boring and gay and micro-plastic pollution is going to eventually kill fucking everything lets give steampunk another shot.

>>507897880
Based and DAOC-pilled
Hibs need not apply

>>507898449
When everyone else uses a technology it’s basically self sabotage not to use it. I tried to go car free for a year in my 20s. I barely even used the bus. Just walked or biked everywhere. It was fine but also retarded in a way
>all of the jobs I wrote off due to transport
>limited amount of groceries I could carry
>spend half a day trekking somewhere others can do in 10 minutes at highway speeds

When everyone walks, walking is fine because all of society is built around walking. When your the odd man out in a world of cars you are fighting the laws of physics.

Similar story with cell phones and smartphones.

>>507894880
I always have a chuckle when I visit my parent's house and they say "please" and "thank you" to their Google Home device

>>507893558 (OP)
When AOL went live.

>>507893977
I remember flamingtext.com

>>507893558 (OP)
1989

>>507900058
AOL chatrooms were comfy, I was talking to so many men pretending to be teen girls it was crazy, I would cyber all the time, and would go to the lesbian only chat rooms and pretend to be a lesbian like all the other guys were at the time. It was da bomb, some it was all that and a bag of chips.

>>507893558 (OP)
holy shit I was trying to find the original pic of that desktop setup
Internet is really dead/full of brainless amoebas

>>507893558 (OP)
2009

>>507893558 (OP)
probably when agriculture was invented
so like, 23 thousand years ago

>>507900058
AOL wasn't that bad.
Funfact: AOL is actually still a thing, you can still download their browser and use it. Some people are even still paying for it.

>>507893558 (OP)
Flip phones and irc stage. When you could get cp on the regular old internet.

>>507893558 (OP)
Windows was a mistake but I would stop at XP.

>>507893558 (OP)
When ever the original iPod came out. Thoses things were cool now technology is fucking gay

>>507900821

>>507894842
The problem isn't people like you or me using smartphones, it's all the absolutely retarded gorilla niggers and roastie women and old ass boomers and bobs and vegene pajeets who suddenly became connected to the internet 24/7 with their smartphones.
Before 2007, the vast majority of those people didn't spend a significant amount of time on the internet, and before ~2002 virtually none of them ever used the internet because most normies were still using shitty dial up internet, if they even had home internet access at all. In the early 2000s, it was fairly common for normal, non-nerd adults to just not have access to the internet unless they went to a library or college campus.

>>507893558 (OP)
1967. IMO the two inventions that really fucked things up were the intermodal shipping container and international computerized banking networks, both of which allowed global corporations to take over and fuck everything up. Freeze things at 1967 and it's modern enough that it wouldn't feel like going back to the dark ages (decent medical care and hygiene standards, cars, jets, etc.) but avoids the critical innovations that allowed globalism and megacorps to rise and destroy everything.

>>507893992

>>507894587
I'd go as far as suggesting that the earliest days of myspace and facebook were not bad, and actually probably good in bringing people together. Whenever they started setting up "fake" eceleb type accounts is when it went wrong.

https://youtu.be/le34ygtODfI?si=IrhboV0frO5ey2Hd

>>507893558 (OP)
>At what point did technology start doing more harm than good?
neolithic revolution

>>507894842
I say what OP's pic says and don't use a smartphone. For a while I didn't have one at all and used a flip, but that turned out to make a few things just impossible, so now I have a smartphone that just sits in a drawer while I carry the flip around

>>507901105
The touches are gay I liked the original ones way better

>>507897102

You can log off, and except for here I have. But the people youre surrounded by are still going to be more internet than they are human.

All part of the plan